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Justice and the Politics of Difference
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book challenges the prevailing philosophical reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. Starting from claims of excluded groups about decision making, cultural expression, and division of labor, Iris Young defines concepts of domination and oppression to cover issues eluding the distributive model. Democratic theorists, according to Young do not adequately address the problem of an inclusive participatory framework. By assuming a homogeneous public, they fail to consider institutional arrangements for including people not culturally identified with white European male norms of reason and respectability. Young urges that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group difference. Basing her vision of the good society on the differentiated, culturally plural network of contemporary urban life, she argues for a principle of group representation in democratic publics and for group-differentiated policies. This is an innovative work, an important contribution to feminist theory and political thought, and one of the most impressive statements of the relationship between postmodernist critiques of universalism and concrete thinking.... Iris Young makes the most convincing case I know of for the emancipatory implications of postmodernism. --Seyla Be…
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“Young defines social justice as “the elimination of institutionalized domination and oppression” (p.16).”
From Informational Justice: A Conceptual Framework for Social Justice in Library and Information Services (2015) · cites this paper as Young, 2011
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“Some philosophers, most notably Iris Marion Young (2011), have argued that the distributive paradigm of social justice is too narrow.”
From Informational Justice: A Conceptual Framework for Social Justice in Library and Information Services (2015) · cites this paper as Young, 2011
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“In contemporary political philosophy the term “social justice” is often used synonymously with distributive justice (Miller, 1999, p. 2;Young, 2011, chap. 1), which is contrasted with retributive justice.”
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“The feminist political philosopher Iris Marion Young (2011) takes an even broader view, stating that social justice “concerns all aspects of institutional organization, public action, social practices and habits, and cultural meanings.”(p.9).”
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“She argues that social justice not only concerns the distribution of benefits and burdens among members of a society but also the ways in which persons are depicted in “cultural imagery and symbols” (p.20).”
From Informational Justice: A Conceptual Framework for Social Justice in Library and Information Services (2015) · cites this paper as Young, 2011
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- Young, I. M.
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- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2012-12-31
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