Author: Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198792182
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Age structures our social fabric - our institutions, relationships, obligations, and entitlements. There is an age for voting, an age for working, and an age when one is expected (and sometimes required) to retire. Each stage of life also brings with it specific forms of social risks andvulnerabilities. Consequently, numerous and multidimensional inequalities arise between age groups. How should we respond to these inequalities? Are they akin to gender or racial disparities? Or is there something distinctive about age that mitigates the need for concern?Justice Across Ages answers these questions and proposes a theory of justice between age groups and co-existing generations. Written at the intersection of philosophy and public policy, the book explores the principles that should guide a fair distribution of goods like jobs, healthcare, income, andpolitical power among people at different stages of their life. It draws upon a range of cases to develop normative tools that help distinguish objectionable inequalities from acceptable ones and explores a variety of policy remedies.Like many political philosophers have, it may be tempting to assume that, since people experience the social position of different age groups throughout their lives, all that matters is that persons are equal over their complete lives. This book shows that we should resist this view and makes theproposition that many diachronically 'equal' arrangements are in fact unjustly unequal. In particular, we should view with suspicion many widely tolerated forms of age-based social hierarchies, such as the infantilization of young adults and older citizens, the political marginalization of teenagersand young adults, the exploitation of young workers through precarious contracts and unpaid internships, and the spatial segregation of elderly persons. If we ever are to live in a society that treats its members as equals, we need to pay attention to how age membership can alter our socialstanding. This view has important implications for how we should think of the political and moral value of equality, for how our social and political institutions should be designed, and also for how we should conduct ourselves in a range of contexts including the family, the workplace, and theuniversity classroom.
Justice Across Ages
Author: Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198792182
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Age structures our social fabric - our institutions, relationships, obligations, and entitlements. There is an age for voting, an age for working, and an age when one is expected (and sometimes required) to retire. Each stage of life also brings with it specific forms of social risks andvulnerabilities. Consequently, numerous and multidimensional inequalities arise between age groups. How should we respond to these inequalities? Are they akin to gender or racial disparities? Or is there something distinctive about age that mitigates the need for concern?Justice Across Ages answers these questions and proposes a theory of justice between age groups and co-existing generations. Written at the intersection of philosophy and public policy, the book explores the principles that should guide a fair distribution of goods like jobs, healthcare, income, andpolitical power among people at different stages of their life. It draws upon a range of cases to develop normative tools that help distinguish objectionable inequalities from acceptable ones and explores a variety of policy remedies.Like many political philosophers have, it may be tempting to assume that, since people experience the social position of different age groups throughout their lives, all that matters is that persons are equal over their complete lives. This book shows that we should resist this view and makes theproposition that many diachronically 'equal' arrangements are in fact unjustly unequal. In particular, we should view with suspicion many widely tolerated forms of age-based social hierarchies, such as the infantilization of young adults and older citizens, the political marginalization of teenagersand young adults, the exploitation of young workers through precarious contracts and unpaid internships, and the spatial segregation of elderly persons. If we ever are to live in a society that treats its members as equals, we need to pay attention to how age membership can alter our socialstanding. This view has important implications for how we should think of the political and moral value of equality, for how our social and political institutions should be designed, and also for how we should conduct ourselves in a range of contexts including the family, the workplace, and theuniversity classroom.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198792182
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Age structures our social fabric - our institutions, relationships, obligations, and entitlements. There is an age for voting, an age for working, and an age when one is expected (and sometimes required) to retire. Each stage of life also brings with it specific forms of social risks andvulnerabilities. Consequently, numerous and multidimensional inequalities arise between age groups. How should we respond to these inequalities? Are they akin to gender or racial disparities? Or is there something distinctive about age that mitigates the need for concern?Justice Across Ages answers these questions and proposes a theory of justice between age groups and co-existing generations. Written at the intersection of philosophy and public policy, the book explores the principles that should guide a fair distribution of goods like jobs, healthcare, income, andpolitical power among people at different stages of their life. It draws upon a range of cases to develop normative tools that help distinguish objectionable inequalities from acceptable ones and explores a variety of policy remedies.Like many political philosophers have, it may be tempting to assume that, since people experience the social position of different age groups throughout their lives, all that matters is that persons are equal over their complete lives. This book shows that we should resist this view and makes theproposition that many diachronically 'equal' arrangements are in fact unjustly unequal. In particular, we should view with suspicion many widely tolerated forms of age-based social hierarchies, such as the infantilization of young adults and older citizens, the political marginalization of teenagersand young adults, the exploitation of young workers through precarious contracts and unpaid internships, and the spatial segregation of elderly persons. If we ever are to live in a society that treats its members as equals, we need to pay attention to how age membership can alter our socialstanding. This view has important implications for how we should think of the political and moral value of equality, for how our social and political institutions should be designed, and also for how we should conduct ourselves in a range of contexts including the family, the workplace, and theuniversity classroom.
Justice Across Ages
Author: Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192510631
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Justice Across Ages is a book about how we should respond to inequalities between people at different stages of their lives. It proposes a theory of justice between co-existing generations and considering implications for public policies.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192510631
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Justice Across Ages is a book about how we should respond to inequalities between people at different stages of their lives. It proposes a theory of justice between co-existing generations and considering implications for public policies.
Environmental Justice and Resiliency in an Age of Uncertainty
Author: Celeste Murphy-Greene
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000590852
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
This book examines the issue of environmental justice across 11short chapters, with the aim of creating a resilient society. Starting with a history of the environmental justice movement, the book then moves on to focus on various current environmental issues, analyzing how these issues impact low-income and minority communities. Topics covered include smart cities and environmental justice, climate change and health equity, the Flint Water Crisis, coastal resilience, emergency management, energy justice, procurement and contract management, public works projects, and the impact of COVID-19. Each chapter provides a unique perspective on the issues covered, offering practical strategies to create a more resilient society that can be applied by practitioners in the field. Environmental Justice and Resiliency in an Age of Uncertainty will be of interest to upper level undergraduate and graduate students studying race relations, environmental politics and policy, sustainability, and social justice. It will also appeal to practitioners working at all levels of government, and anyone with an interest in environmental issues, racial justice, and the construction of resilient communities.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000590852
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
This book examines the issue of environmental justice across 11short chapters, with the aim of creating a resilient society. Starting with a history of the environmental justice movement, the book then moves on to focus on various current environmental issues, analyzing how these issues impact low-income and minority communities. Topics covered include smart cities and environmental justice, climate change and health equity, the Flint Water Crisis, coastal resilience, emergency management, energy justice, procurement and contract management, public works projects, and the impact of COVID-19. Each chapter provides a unique perspective on the issues covered, offering practical strategies to create a more resilient society that can be applied by practitioners in the field. Environmental Justice and Resiliency in an Age of Uncertainty will be of interest to upper level undergraduate and graduate students studying race relations, environmental politics and policy, sustainability, and social justice. It will also appeal to practitioners working at all levels of government, and anyone with an interest in environmental issues, racial justice, and the construction of resilient communities.
Arc of Justice
Author: Kevin Boyle
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429900164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429900164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times.
Digital Dead End
Author: Virginia Eubanks
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262294699
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The realities of the high-tech global economy for women and families in the United States. The idea that technology will pave the road to prosperity has been promoted through both boom and bust. Today we are told that universal broadband access, high-tech jobs, and cutting-edge science will pull us out of our current economic downturn and move us toward social and economic equality. In Digital Dead End, Virginia Eubanks argues that to believe this is to engage in a kind of magical thinking: a technological utopia will come about simply because we want it to. This vision of the miraculous power of high-tech development is driven by flawed assumptions about race, class, and gender. The realities of the information age are more complicated, particularly for poor and working-class women and families. For them, information technology can be both a tool of liberation and a means of oppression. But despite the inequities of the high-tech global economy, optimism and innovation flourished when Eubanks worked with a community of resourceful women living at her local YWCA. Eubanks describes a new approach to creating a broadly inclusive and empowering “technology for people,” popular technology, which entails shifting the focus from teaching technical skill to nurturing critical technological citizenship, building resources for learning, and fostering social movement. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images found in the physical edition.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262294699
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The realities of the high-tech global economy for women and families in the United States. The idea that technology will pave the road to prosperity has been promoted through both boom and bust. Today we are told that universal broadband access, high-tech jobs, and cutting-edge science will pull us out of our current economic downturn and move us toward social and economic equality. In Digital Dead End, Virginia Eubanks argues that to believe this is to engage in a kind of magical thinking: a technological utopia will come about simply because we want it to. This vision of the miraculous power of high-tech development is driven by flawed assumptions about race, class, and gender. The realities of the information age are more complicated, particularly for poor and working-class women and families. For them, information technology can be both a tool of liberation and a means of oppression. But despite the inequities of the high-tech global economy, optimism and innovation flourished when Eubanks worked with a community of resourceful women living at her local YWCA. Eubanks describes a new approach to creating a broadly inclusive and empowering “technology for people,” popular technology, which entails shifting the focus from teaching technical skill to nurturing critical technological citizenship, building resources for learning, and fostering social movement. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images found in the physical edition.
Justice Across Boundaries
Author: Onora O'Neill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107116306
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Offering an answer to the question 'who ought to do what, and for whom, if global justice is to progress?', this book will interest academic researchers and advanced students of global justice, human rights, political philosophy and political theory.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107116306
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Offering an answer to the question 'who ought to do what, and for whom, if global justice is to progress?', this book will interest academic researchers and advanced students of global justice, human rights, political philosophy and political theory.
Whatever Happened to Justice?
Author: Rick Maybury
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942617467
Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Whatever Happened to Justice?" shows what's gone wrong with America's legal system and economy and how to fix it. It also contains lots of helpful hints for improving family relationships and for making families and classrooms run more smoothly. Discusses the difference between higher law and man-made law, and the connection between rational law and economic prosperity.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942617467
Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Whatever Happened to Justice?" shows what's gone wrong with America's legal system and economy and how to fix it. It also contains lots of helpful hints for improving family relationships and for making families and classrooms run more smoothly. Discusses the difference between higher law and man-made law, and the connection between rational law and economic prosperity.
Theorising Justice
Author: Johanna Ohlsson
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1529232228
Category : Justice
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license. Bringing together divergent approaches to justice theorising, this volume connects normative and philosophical theories with the more empirically focused approaches emerging today in the social and political sciences and policy scholarship. The chapters overview a variety of mainstream approaches and radical critiques of justice to illustrate their value in addressing the pressing problems of climate change and economic development. Stressing the value of assessing justice theories in light of the material conditions of our changing world, the book concludes with an in-depth synthesis of how these wide ranging approaches to justice will be useful for students, scholars and practitioners concerned with realising justice.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1529232228
Category : Justice
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license. Bringing together divergent approaches to justice theorising, this volume connects normative and philosophical theories with the more empirically focused approaches emerging today in the social and political sciences and policy scholarship. The chapters overview a variety of mainstream approaches and radical critiques of justice to illustrate their value in addressing the pressing problems of climate change and economic development. Stressing the value of assessing justice theories in light of the material conditions of our changing world, the book concludes with an in-depth synthesis of how these wide ranging approaches to justice will be useful for students, scholars and practitioners concerned with realising justice.
Challenging the Borders of Justice in the Age of Migrations
Author: Juan Carlos Velasco
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030055906
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The volume gathers theoretical contributions on human rights and global justice in the context of international migration. It addresses the need to reconsider human rights and the theories of justice in connection with the transformation of the social frames of reference that international migrations foster. The main goal of this collective volume is to analyze and propose principles of justice that serve to address two main challenges connected to international migrations that are analytically differentiable although inextricably linked in normative terms: to better distribute the finite resources of the planet among all its inhabitants; and to ensure the recognition of human rights in current migration policies. Due to the very nature of the debate on global justice and the implementation of human rights and migration policies, this interdisciplinary volume aims at transcending the academic sphere and appeals to a large public through argumentative reflections. Challenging the Borders of Justice in the Age of Migrations represents a fresh and timely contribution. In a time when national interests are structurally overvalued and borders increasingly strengthened, it’s a breath of fresh air to read a book in which migration flows are not changed into a threat. We simply cannot understand the world around us through the lens of the ‘migration crisis’-a message the authors of this book have perfectly understood. Aimed at a strong link between theories of global justice and policies of border control, this timely book combines the normative and empirical to deeply question the way our territorial boundaries are justified. Professor Ronald Tinnevelt, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands This book is essential reading for those frustrated by the limitations of the dominant ways of thinking about global justice especially in relation to migration. By bringing together discussions of global justice, cosmopolitan political theory and migration, this collection of essays has the potential to transform the way in which we think and debate the critical issues of membership and movement. Together they present a critical interdisciplinary approach to international migration, human rights and global justice, challenging disciplinary borders as well as political ones. Professor Phil Cole, University of the West of England, UK
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030055906
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The volume gathers theoretical contributions on human rights and global justice in the context of international migration. It addresses the need to reconsider human rights and the theories of justice in connection with the transformation of the social frames of reference that international migrations foster. The main goal of this collective volume is to analyze and propose principles of justice that serve to address two main challenges connected to international migrations that are analytically differentiable although inextricably linked in normative terms: to better distribute the finite resources of the planet among all its inhabitants; and to ensure the recognition of human rights in current migration policies. Due to the very nature of the debate on global justice and the implementation of human rights and migration policies, this interdisciplinary volume aims at transcending the academic sphere and appeals to a large public through argumentative reflections. Challenging the Borders of Justice in the Age of Migrations represents a fresh and timely contribution. In a time when national interests are structurally overvalued and borders increasingly strengthened, it’s a breath of fresh air to read a book in which migration flows are not changed into a threat. We simply cannot understand the world around us through the lens of the ‘migration crisis’-a message the authors of this book have perfectly understood. Aimed at a strong link between theories of global justice and policies of border control, this timely book combines the normative and empirical to deeply question the way our territorial boundaries are justified. Professor Ronald Tinnevelt, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands This book is essential reading for those frustrated by the limitations of the dominant ways of thinking about global justice especially in relation to migration. By bringing together discussions of global justice, cosmopolitan political theory and migration, this collection of essays has the potential to transform the way in which we think and debate the critical issues of membership and movement. Together they present a critical interdisciplinary approach to international migration, human rights and global justice, challenging disciplinary borders as well as political ones. Professor Phil Cole, University of the West of England, UK
Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States
Author: Asgeir Falch-Eriksen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000459071
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
This book explores generation as both a reference to family or kinship structures, and a reference to cohorts or age sets. The principal objective is branching out this two-part concept through studies of tensions and solidarity within and between generations of advanced and robust welfare states. Answering key questions using multiple disciplinary approaches, the book considers how generations challenge advanced and robust welfare states; how new and young generations are affected by living in an advanced welfare state with older generations; how tensions or solidarity are understood when facing challenges; and what the key characteristics are of certain generation types. It contributes to the development of a more comprehensive generation approach within social sciences by developing the concept of generation by exploring different challenges to the welfare state such as migration, digitalization, environmental damages, demands for sustainability, and marginalization. Highlighting the escalating tensions and altered versions of solidarity between generations, this book shows how a comprehensive concept of a generation can create new insights into how we collectively coordinate and resolve challenges through the welfare state. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, sociology, political science, and social anthropology.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000459071
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
This book explores generation as both a reference to family or kinship structures, and a reference to cohorts or age sets. The principal objective is branching out this two-part concept through studies of tensions and solidarity within and between generations of advanced and robust welfare states. Answering key questions using multiple disciplinary approaches, the book considers how generations challenge advanced and robust welfare states; how new and young generations are affected by living in an advanced welfare state with older generations; how tensions or solidarity are understood when facing challenges; and what the key characteristics are of certain generation types. It contributes to the development of a more comprehensive generation approach within social sciences by developing the concept of generation by exploring different challenges to the welfare state such as migration, digitalization, environmental damages, demands for sustainability, and marginalization. Highlighting the escalating tensions and altered versions of solidarity between generations, this book shows how a comprehensive concept of a generation can create new insights into how we collectively coordinate and resolve challenges through the welfare state. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, sociology, political science, and social anthropology.