Global justice and transnational civil disobedience

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ID12866767
AuthorsTemi Ogunye (University College London, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume8
Issue1
Pages27217-27217
Publication date2015-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthics & Global Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1654-6369 • E-ISSN: 1654-4951
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3402/egp.v8.27217
OpenAlexW1816012915
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Almost all accounts of global justice recognise that the world, as it is, is unjust, and that something ought to be done about this. But what? In this paper, I argue that wealthy individuals have a duty grounded in the natural duty of justice to engage in civil disobedience against the currently unjust global order with the aim of pressuring for institutional reform. In particular, I argue that those who subscribe to the two main views on global justice—cosmopolitanism and statism—can agree that the conditions which give rise to the duty to engage in civil disobedience obtain in global society today. I then explain why I focus on transnational civil disobedience, argue that only the wealthy have the duty to engage in it, and give an example of how this duty has been discharged in the real world

Civil disobedience · Civil society · Cosmopolitanism · Duty · Economic Justice · Global justice · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Statism · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · War, Ethics, and Justification

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