Tackling invisible frontiers of global justice

An extension of Sen’s ‘Comparison View of Justice’ into IR

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ID12609596
AuthorsAntje Wiener (0000-0002-3882-3331, Universität Hamburg, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume16
Issue2
Pages249-265
Publication date2013-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1369-8230 • E-ISSN: 1743-8772
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13698230.2012.757916
OpenAlexW2100203485
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited54

A central challenge of Amartya Sen’s comparative view of justice is to bring cultural diversity to bear on conceptualizing global justice, which includes building bridges across cultures that enable effective action, and rendering compatible the most beneficent of Rawlsian (or transcendental) intentions with irreducible cultural diversity. For social scientists meeting this challenge requires, first, taking account of variation of social practices in the social construction of meaning, and second, uncovering invisible frontiers of global justice that remain hidden due to conceptual or empirical oversight. The latter is especially true for contemporary International Relations (IR) theory, which assumes state actors to be the main interlocutors in the global realm, and thus precludes consideration of micro-level forms of inter-national relations (understood as interaction among all types of actors that takes place across country borders and that bears traits of national identity). Alternatively, Sen’s micro-perspectival approach offers a welcome support for pluralist approaches that both appreciate non-state access to contestation in the international arena, and account for the meaning-in-use of fundamental norms (democracy, rule of law, human rights) in different cultural and inter-national contexts

Democracy · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Global justice · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Realm · Sociology · Transcendental number · International Development and Aid · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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