Distributive Justice and the Politics of Difference

Bibliographic Data

ID12643538
AuthorsKevin Olsen (0000-0002-2173-9889, Department of Political ScienceUniversity of California, Irvine, USA, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume2
Issue1
Pages5-32
Publication date2001-02-17
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Horizons (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1440-9917 • E-ISSN: 1568-5160
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1163/156851601750169982
OpenAlexW1985226811
LanguageEN
Citations received10

This essay identifies a point of convergence between economically oriented, distributive approaches to social justice and culturally oriented, identitarian ones. The primary problem of difference politics, I claim, is insuring that disadvantaged groups have equal abilities to participate in the social processes that construct and value identities. I argue that this is best accomplished through a conception of equality promoting human agency in both the cultural and economic spheres

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