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Jude Browne and Maeve McKeown, What is Structural Injustice? Oxford University Press, 2024, 304pp., $115.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198892878.
Reviewed by Tamara Jugov, Technische Universität Dresden
Reviewed by Tamara Jugov, Technische Universität Dresden
The concept of structural injustice is at the core of many current debates on justice and injustice in political philosophy. It appears to capture something important about many structural wrongs we consider to be not just prolific and morally bad, but also unjust. Examples of structural injustice discussed in the literature are chains of global labor exploitation, structural racism, and sexism, but also private exchanges mediated through markets. Famously, Iris Marion Young discusses the examples of production chains in the global textile industry (Young 1996) and seemingly “morally neutral” exchanges on the housing market leading to the near-homelessness of vulnerable persons (Young 2011, 43–4).
This collection, edited by Jude Browne and Maeve McKeown, brings together the voices of leading scholars working on the concept of…
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