Where is the injustice in structural injustice?

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dc.contributor.authorBufacchi, Vittorioen
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-18T12:39:22Z
dc.date.available2025-03-18T12:39:22Z
dc.date.issued2024en
dc.description.abstractThis paper will offer a conceptual analysis and critique of Maeve McKeown’s account of structural injustice. McKeown’s main thesis is that structural injustice ought to be approached via critical theory, and that a critical theory of structural injustice should incorporate power. While I agree with McKeown’s general approach, I argue that two aspects of this work remain opaque and in need of further analysis. First, while McKeown does a lot of important work on the ‘struc-tural’ component of structural injustice, what constitutes an ‘injustice’ remains undefined, being taken for granted. More specifically, the concept of intentionality, which is crucial to McKeown’s account of ‘deliberate structural injustice’, remains under analysed. Secondly, while McKeown rightly puts power at the centre of structural injustice, there seems to be an assumption that power and domination are cut from the same cloth. I will challenge this assumption, suggesting an alternative way of integrating power within the sphere of structural injustice.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationBufacchi, V. (2024) 'Where is the injustice in structural injustice?', Philosophy and Public Issues, 2 (2), pp. 221-230. https://doi.org/10.17473/2240-7987-2024-2-2en
dc.identifier.doi10.17473/2240-7987-2024-2-2en
dc.identifier.eissn2240-7987en
dc.identifier.endpage230en
dc.identifier.issn1591-0660en
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitlePhilosophy and Public Issuesen
dc.identifier.startpage221en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17177
dc.identifier.volume2en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherG. Giappichelli Editoreen
dc.rights© 2025, Vittorio Bufacchi. Originally published in Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche - Philosophy and Public Issues. This article is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlikes 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.iten
dc.subjectStructural injusticeen
dc.subjectMaeve McKeownen
dc.titleWhere is the injustice in structural injustice?en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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