Journal article
Structural injustice and massively shared obligations
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol.38(1), pp.23-39
2021
Abstract
It is often argued that our obligations to address structural injustice are collective in character. But what exactly does it mean for ‘ordinary citizens’ to have collective obligations vis‐à‐vis large‐scale injustice? In this article, I propose to pay closer attention to the different kinds of collective action needed in addressing some of these structural injustices and the extent to which these are available to large, unorganised groups of people. I argue that large, dispersed, and unorganised groups of people are often in a position to perform distributive collective actions. As such, ordinary citizens can have massively shared obligations to address structural injustice through distributive action, but, ultimately, such obligations are ‘collective’ only in a fairly weak sense.
Details
- Title
- Structural injustice and massively shared obligations
- Authors/Creators
- A. Schwenkenbecher (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol.38(1), pp.23-39
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Identifiers
- 991005545089807891
- Copyright
- © Society for Applied Philosophy 2020
- Murdoch Affiliation
- College of Arts, Business, Law and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- 10 Arts & Humanities
- 10.126 Philosophy
- 10.126.530 Political Liberalism
- Web Of Science research areas
- Ethics
- Philosophy
- ESI research areas
- Social Sciences, general