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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825858803321

Titolo

The borders of justice / / edited by Etienne Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra and Ranabir Samaddar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-28651-3

9786613286512

1-4399-0687-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Politics, history, and social change

Altri autori (Persone)

BalibarEtienne <1942->

MezzadraSandro

SamaddaraRanabira

Disciplina

320.01/1

Soggetti

Justice

Social justice

Equality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Editors' Introduction; 1. Justice and Equality: A Political Dilemma? Pascal, Plato, Marx; 2. Global Justice and Politics: On the Transition from the Normative to the Political Level; 3. Traversing the Borders of Liberalism: Can There Be a Liberal Multiculturalism?; 4. The Long March from the Margins: Subaltern Politics, Justice, and Nature in Postcolonial India; 5. Struggles of Justice: Political Discourses, Experiences, and Claims; 6. Aestheticizing Law into Justice: The Fetus in a Divided Planet; 7. The Justice-Seeking Subject

8. Law's Internationalization and Justice for the Citizens and Noncitizens in France9. Borderscapes of Differential Inclusion: Subjectivity and Struggles on the Threshold of Justice's Excess; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

International in scope and featuring a diverse group of contributors, The Borders of Justice investigates the complexities of transitional justice that emerge from its "social embeddedness." This original and provocative collection of essays, which stem from a collective research program on social justice undertaken by the Calcutta Research Group,



confronts the concept and practices of justice. The editors and contributors question the relationship between geography, methodology, and justice-how and why justice is meted out differently in different places.Expanding on