Context, Equality, and Aboriginal Compensation Claims

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ID3887590
AuthorsBurke A Hendrix (0000-0001-9736-3622, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume50
Issue4
Pages669-688
Publication date2011-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDialogue (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0012217312000017
OpenAlexW2147697441
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Jeremy Waldron argues that the historical ownership rights of Aboriginal peoples can be superseded, yet acknowledges that programs of historically grounded compensation are justifiable in the absence of widespread redistribution. This article argues that existing states lack social justice programs of the requisite kind, and that they will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. Moreover, even the best-designed programs will be far more ambiguous than Waldron encourages us to recognize, given the unavoidability of inheritance-based inequalities. The article argues that philosophers should pay special attention to political context when evaluating the claims of socially vulnerable populations such as Aboriginal peoples

Compensation (psychology) · Context (archaeology) · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Inequality · Inheritance (genetic algorithm) · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Redistribution (election) · Social justice · Sociology · History · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Property Rights and Legal Doctrine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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