Solidarity and the politics of redress; structural injustice, history and counter-finalities

Owen, David (2021) Solidarity and the politics of redress; structural injustice, history and counter-finalities. Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, 24 (5), 1213-1227. (doi:10.1007/s10677-021-10246-9).

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This paper examines Nuti’s accounts of structural injustice and historical injustice in the light of a political dilemma that confronted Young’s work on structure injustice. The dilemma emerges from a paradox that can be stated simply: justly addressing structural injustice would require that those subject to structural injustice enjoy the kind of privileged position of decision-making power that their being subject to structural injustice denies them. The dilemma thus concerns how to justly address structural injustice. I argue that Nuti’s account is currently unable to provide an adequate theorization of how to address this dilemma because it lacks an account of political solidarity, but also that her account provides important resources for dissolving a dispute between two competing theories of solidarity in a way that facilitates the articulation of an account of political solidarity that is adequate to addressing the political dilemma.

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Accepted/In Press date: 6 October 2021

e-pub ahead of print date: 10 December 2021

Published date: 10 December 2021

Additional Information: Funding Information: I am grateful to Jennifer Page for the invitation to contribute to this symposium and to Alasia Nuti for providing the occasion. I am also grateful to two referees for their helpful suggestions.

Keywords: Alessia Nuti, Historical injustice, Iris Marion Young, Redress, Solidarity, Structural injustice