Global (in)justice and the human right to housing. A practice-based approach

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ID21148664
AutoresRegina Kreide (0000-0002-3948-0350, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume25
Fascículo1
Páginas107-127
Data de publicação2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-8230 • E-ISSN: 1743-8772
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13698230.2020.1859225
OpenAlexW3111880858
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas20

Housing has become a political problem in the vast majority of cities around the world, highlighting obvious injustices. The article pursues the question to what extent the existing human right to housing can be of any interest here. The practice-based approach of Charles Beitz can help against the background of some systematic supplements. A ‘negative’ approach that distinguishes forms of injustice is an important prerequisite for a substantial use of human rights. The negative approach makes it possible to uncover injustices and shows the obstacles that stand in the way of a practice-based conception of human rights. The practice-based conception is, at the same time, necessary for the social analysis of the obstacles, in order to analyse human rights as well as to be able to justify human rights themselves. The current commodification of housing it is argued impedes the exercise of a practice-based conception of human rights in the way that Charles Beitz has suggested

Commodification · Economic Justice · Economics · Environmental ethics · Human rights · Injustice · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Human Rights and Development · Law