Do global justice theorists need to alter their normative focus to accommodate changing empirical circumstances

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ID6420969
AuthorsTeppo Eskelinen (0000-0001-5899-6996, University of Eastern Finland, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume28
Issue4
Pages614-633
Publication date2022-09-19
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)
DOI10.1080/13698230.2022.2121520
OpenAlexW4296348255
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited72

This paper offers an analysis of how normative theories on global poverty make assumptions regarding the geography of global poverty and global power constellations. I follow some recent global developments relevant to these assumptions, and ask whether normative theorizing should react to these developments. I argue that while accounts of global justice are not explicitly committed to any particular empirical ideas, the global justice discourse reflects the specific socioeconomic and geopolitical context in which it emerged, and that this context is currently giving way to a somewhat different reality. I suggest some preliminary starting points for a normative theory which would reflect the contemporary conditions more accurately. These starting points include shifting the focus of theorizing from relations between rich and poor countries to inequalities on various levels, and the notion of a complex institutional site of global justice

Criminology · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Global justice · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Human Rights and Development · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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