Global justice, sovereignty, and the problem of perspective

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ID12923359
AuthorsJennifer Szende (0000-0001-8778-6082, McMaster University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume17
Issue1
Pages99-116
Publication date2019-06-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of International Political Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1755-0882 • E-ISSN: 1755-1722
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1755088219852646
OpenAlexW2951762308
LanguageEN
References cited35

This article argues that a state-centered theory of global justice exhibits an epistemic problem of perspective, and that this worry exhibits a gendered character. Within a liberal domestic theory of justice, the public/private distinction has been repeatedly shown to be bad for women because it creates a domain for injustice that becomes invisible to public policy and the law. This article argues that state-centered theories of global justice create an analogous space that is cut off from questions of global justice. The article therefore suggests that this way of framing questions of global justice is problematic, and is problematic for women in particular. Just as the public/private distinction in liberal domestic justice leaves cases of injustice outside the vision of the law, the hard distinction between the domestic (state) sphere and the international realm of justice leaves cases of injustice invisible to international law. For the question of global justice, the privileging of sovereignty and non-intervention compromises the ability of the theory to achieve its purported goal of universal justice

Economic Justice · Framing (construction · Global justice · Injustice · International law · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Public international law · Public sphere · Realm · Sociology · Sovereignty · Theory of criminal justice · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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