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Injustice and the reproduction of history : structural inequalities, gender and redress / Alasia Nuti

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Nuti, Alasia, 1984-
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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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.
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9781108325592 (ebook)
9781108419949 (hardback)
9781108412667 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Mar 2019).
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