Injustice and the Reproduction of History
Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress

Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

Alasia Nuti (Author)

9781108419949, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 March 2019

238 pages, 2 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.8 x 1.6 cm, 0.47 kg

'In this path-breaking book, Alasia Nuti develops a new way to combine reflections on historical and structural injustice. Taking us beyond reified notions of time, agency or social groups, she suggests a powerful account of political and social justice that speaks to the past, the present and the future.' Rainer Forst, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Demands for redress of historical injustice are a crucial component of contemporary struggles for social and transnational justice. However, understanding when and why an unjust history matters for considerations of justice in the present is not straightforward. Alasia Nuti develops a normative framework to identify which historical injustices we should be concerned about, to conceptualise the relation between persistence and change and, thus, conceive of history as newly reproduced. Focusing on the condition of women in formally egalitarian societies, the book shows that history is important to theorise the injustice of gender inequalities and devise transformative remedies. Engaging with the activist politics of the unjust past, Nuti also demonstrates that the reproduction of an unjust history is dynamic, complex and unsettling. It generates both historical and contemporary responsibilities for redress and questions precisely those features of our order that we take for granted.

1. Introduction
2. De-temporalising (historical) injustice
3. The structural reproduction of unjust history
4. History, injustice and groups
5. Defining women as a group
6. Women and the reproduction of unjust history in egalitarian contexts
7. The policy of the unjust past
8. The politics of the unjust past
9. Conclusion: responsibility and the process of redress
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Offences against the person [LNFJ], Criminal justice law [LNFB], Legal history [LAZ], Gender & the law [LAQG], Political ideologies [JPF], Political science & theory [JPA], Gender studies: women [JFSJ1]