20.-21. Juni 2013
Konferenz: "Relational Injustice"
Hosted by the Centre of Advanced Studies "Justitia Amplificata" Goethe University of Frankfurt (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Organisatoren
Sean Aas, James Gledhill, Sarah Goff, and Mara Marin
Redner
Ann Cudd (University of Kansas), Joseph Heath (University of Toronto), Aaron James (UC Irvine), A. J. Julius (UCLA), Lionel McPherson (Tufts University), and Richard Miller (Cornell)
Ort
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg (http://www.forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36&Itemid=105&lang=de)
Workshop
There is no shortage of ideals of justice. However, endorsing a particular conception of ideal justice does not necessarily help us to understand actual injustice in its diverse forms. This conference is motivated by the belief that theorizing about injustice can bring a new set of perspectives to the critique and transformation of relations between individuals, groups and states. This is a fruitful time for theorizing about injustice. A convergence can be detected between the traditions of analytic political theory and critical theory. Contemporary critical theory has increasingly adopted the language of justice and injustice in undertaking social critique. Meanwhile, recent developments within analytic political theory have seen attention turn from constructing ideals of just social relations to a focus on understanding manifest injustices. However, many questions remain unanswered: to what extent does the identification of injustice presuppose an ideal of justice? How can economics and social science better inform normative theory with a practical intent? Does a change in focus from justice to injustice go far enough, or is an enlarged conceptual repertoire required in order to come to terms with today’s social ills? This conference aims to combine theoretical insights from the traditions of analytic political philosophy and critical social theory to achieve a better understanding of injustice. Relevant themes include: unfairness, exploitation, coercion, oppression, domination, misrecognition, and alienation. In exploring these themes, it surely will be helpful to examine and critique real world injustices. Real world issues of particular interest include discrimination, racism, economic marginalization, and trade and finance.
Programm
Thursday, June 20
13:00-13:15: Welcome and Introduction
13:15-15:15 Historical Injustice
Lionel McPherson: How Not to "Correct" Historical Injustice
A.J. Julius: Antislavery
Chair: Katrin Flikschuh
15:15 - Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Just Relations
Richard Miller: Injustice as Selfishness
James Gledhill: The Basic Structure of the Institutional Imagination
Chair: Thomas Christiano
18:00 - BBQ at the Forschungskolleg
Friday, June 21
10:00-12:00 Structures and Oppression
Ann Cudd: Domestic Violence as Relational Injustice: Gendered Relationships in Oppressive Social Structures
Mara Marin: What is Structural about the Basic Structure?
Chair: Stefan Gosepath
12:00 - Lunch
13:30-15:30 Global Economic Life
Aaron James: Fortune and Fairness in Global Economic Life
Sarah Goff: Aid Conditionality: Two Defensible Approaches
Chair: Darrel Moellendorf
15:30 - Coffee Break
16:15-18:15 Best and Second Best
Joseph Heath: Efficiency as the Implicit Morality of the Market
Sean Aas: Just Enough?
Chair: Rainer Forst
18:15-18:30: Closing Remarks
Attendance of the workshop is free. Registration is required for organization and catering purposes by June 14.
Places are limited, and will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis.
In order to register, please contact Ms Valérie Bignon: [email protected]
In the interest of maximizing time for open conversation, the papers will be circulated in advance, the conference participants will be expected to have read them, and authors to only introduce the main lines of argument.