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Enduring Injustice
Jeff Spinner-Halev
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Description for Enduring Injustice
paperback. Argues that understanding the impact of past injustices faced by some peoples can help us understand and overcome injustice today. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 7. Weight in Grams: 400. 246 pages. Argues that understanding the impact of past injustices faced by some peoples can help us understand and overcome injustice today. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 7. Weight: 400.
Governments today often apologize for past injustices and scholars increasingly debate the issue, with many calling for apologies and reparations. Others suggest that what matters is victims of injustice today, not injustices in the past. Spinner-Halev argues that the problem facing some peoples is not only the injustice of the past, but that they still suffer from injustice today. They experience what he calls enduring injustices, and it is likely that these will persist without action to address them. The history of these injustices matters, not as a way to assign responsibility or because we need to remember more, but ... Read more
Governments today often apologize for past injustices and scholars increasingly debate the issue, with many calling for apologies and reparations. Others suggest that what matters is victims of injustice today, not injustices in the past. Spinner-Halev argues that the problem facing some peoples is not only the injustice of the past, but that they still suffer from injustice today. They experience what he calls enduring injustices, and it is likely that these will persist without action to address them. The history of these injustices matters, not as a way to assign responsibility or because we need to remember more, but ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107603073
SKU
V9781107603073
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About Jeff Spinner-Halev
Jeff Spinner-Halev is the Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Boundaries of Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in the Liberal State (1994) and Surviving Diversity: Religion and Democratic Citizenship (2000) and co-editor of Minorities within Minorities: Equality, Right and Diversity (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Reviews for Enduring Injustice
'With characteristic sensitivity and nuance, Spinner-Halev explores the ways in which deep injustices can persist even within avowedly liberal regimes. This is an important book by a committed liberal with a deep appreciation for the limitations of liberal solutions.' Joseph H. Carens, University of Toronto 'No country's past is free from the stain of injustice. But which past injustices merit ... Read more