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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Political Justice"”.
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Transitional Justice, Decolonisation, and the Legitimation of Political Change in Contemporary South Africa
… I explore the residual impact of transitional justice discourse in contemporary South Africa. I argue specifically that even though transitional justice in South Africa became successful in terms of political justice, it failed to fulfill its promise of sociocultural and economic …
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Troubling Women: Female Texts and Voices of the Northern Irish Conflict, 1969-1998
… and equal rights for women, some protested for political justice, some picked up guns to fight, and still others advocated for peace. Using the real women of history as a guide, it will create a lens through which to study these women as they are represented in literature, art, and film.
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Facing inequality : Rawls, Sen and Cohen on the space of egalitarian justice
… work. Beginning with John Rawls' theory of political justice (i.e., justice as fairness), the thesis examines critiques of Rawls' scheme of primary goods by Amartya Sen and G.A. Cohen and their respective egalitarian evaluative spaces--capabilities and midfare. It is suggested that these …
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Rawls, Political Liberalism, and Moral Virtues
… although primarily concerned with social and political justice, and not with virtue ethics, gives a major place and role to the moral virtues in his theory of political liberalism, as in all of his system of justice as fairness. Some philosophers, mostly of the Aristotelian-Aquinian …
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The 'monstrous Other' speaks: Postsubjectivity and the queering of the normal
… of subjectivity and the future of social and political justice. Moreover, the monstrous Other poses significant challenges for the ongoing tenability of normative notions of the human, including such primary human traits as sexuality and a gendered, "natural" embodiment. Given the complexities …
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Epistemic Overload as Epistemic Injustice
Epistemic injustices are the distinctly epistemic harms and wrongs which undermine or depreciate our capacities knowers. This dissertation develops a theory of epistemic injustice and justice which accounts for excesses in epistemic goods as a source of epistemic injustice. This is a theory of …
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Wild Women of Anatolia: The Critical Construct Validity of the Liberation of Women in Turkey
… outlining <em>freedoms from</em> gendered political, institutional and intimate constraints such as domestic violence, without much attention to freedoms desired, such as <em>freedom to</em> dream. Following Fromm’s (1941) conceptualization of freedom as <em>freedom from</em> restrictions …
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Refugee Stories in Britain: Narratives of Personal Experiences in a Network of Power Relations
… democratic means of achieving social and political justice. In a globalised world it is the degree to which a person has the capacity to control the story of their lives which is considered a significant means of empowerment. Refugee narratives are mostly represented by others, mainly as …
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Scaffold Fiction: Execution and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
… force of the community conspiring his ruin” (Political Justice). Godwin, a Romantic writer who anticipates Victorian and twentieth-century capital reforms, brings the scaffold fiction of writers like Defoe and Fielding into fruition as he wrote and agitated at the height of the Bloody Code, …
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Anti-parliamentary passage: South Wales and the internationalism of Sam Mainwaring (1841-1907)
… set out in William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice of 1798. This Thesis is concerned with the acceptance of Marx AND Bakunin's thinking into the mindset of Libertarian British working-men during the four decades immediately preceding the First World War, and relates that acceptance …