10: The Priority of Justice

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Don Mitchell
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31 Jul 2024
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159–175
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https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529226683.ch010
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This chapter argues that for all their interest in researching the geography of justice and injustice, geographers have rarely theorized the concept of justice itself. It argues that such a conceptual theorization is necessary. By revisiting and reading anew the work of Iris Marion Young, Rainer Forst, Susan Moller Okin and others, it suggests that such a theorization should historical-materialist in epistemology, focus on questions of group differentiation and solidarity, develop further Young’s theory of responsibility, place considerations of power and modes of production at its centre, and reject the late Clive Barnett’s argument that it is injustice rather than justice that should be prioritized in our theoretical efforts and geographical research.

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