CFP: "Structural Injustice" FQP/PPI - Philosophy and Public Issues

FQP/PPI Philosophy and Public Issues is launching a call for submissions of articles on the topic of ‘structural injustice’ with the aim of contributing to the current academic debates on this topic. Structure has long been a popular concept in political philosophy. The idea that injustice can be built in and reproduced by structures has been shared by a wide variety of schools of thought. Despite this intellectual history, structures, and structural injustice in particular, became a central point for discussion in contemporary political theory following Iris Marion Young’s works (Young, 1990; 2003; 2004; 2006a; 2006b; 2011). Structural injustice and the political responsibility model suggested by Young also sparked a considerable secondary literature that either challenges her views or applies her theory to timely case studies such as colonialism (Lu, 2011; 2017; 2023), climate change (Godoy, 2017), and gender inequality (Nuti, 2019; Parekh, 2011).

We invite submissions of original contributions discussing topics that include, but are not limited to:

• Structural injustice and global justice
• Oppression, domination, exploitation
• Misrecognition and structural injustice
• Liability model vs. political responsibility model
• Responsibility attribution for structural injustice
• Backward-looking remedies vs. forward-looking measures
• Critical discussions on structural injustice (e.g. Estlund 2024)
• Activism and structural change
• Social transformations and structural change
• Historical injustice and structural injustice
• Identity politics and structural injustice
• Structural injustice and vulnerability

The call will complement the publication of a book symposium on Maeve McKeown’s With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice (2024). The book symposium will appear in December 2024.  

Submission Details

Please send a (.doc or .docx) file containing the full paper and a title, prepared for blind review with all revealing references to the author removed. All personal information (name, affiliation, and contact) must be submitted separately, along with a short abstract (200 words max). The deadline for submission is 30th August 2024.

All materials must be submitted via e-mail to the editors of the symposium ([email protected] & [email protected]), and to the managing editors of FQP ([email protected] & [email protected]).