Structural Injustice: Power, Advantage, and Human Rights

by Ruth Faden and Madison Powers

Madison Powers and Ruth Faden here develop an innovative theory of structural injustice that links human rights norms and fairness norms. Norms of both kinds are grounded in an account of well-being. Their well-being account provides the foundation for human rights, explains the depth of unfairness of systematic patterns of disadvantage, and locates the unfairness of power relations in forms of control some groups have over the well-being of other...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190053984
• ISBN13: 9780190053987
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"