Global Social Justice

by Widdows; Heather

• ISBN13: 9780415579414
• ISBN10: 0415579414
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book provides a distinctive multi-disciplinary contribution to debates about global justice and global ethics addresses issues including human rights, the environment, health, labour, peace-building and political participation, and sexuality.

Author Biography

Heather Widdows is Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is Lead Editor of the Journal of Global Ethics and author of Global Ethics: An Introduction (Acumen, 2011).She has also published widely on issues of global justice and global ethics. Nicola J. Smith is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has published a variety of articles on globalization and social justice, and is the author of Showcasing. Globalization: The Political Economy of the Irish Republic (Manchester University Press, 2005).

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Global social justice: an introduction	p. 1
The globalization of human rights	p. 11
Liberal internationalism and global social justice	p. 29
Moral distance and global social justice: an archaeology of borders	p. 42
Justice and the distribution of greenhouse gas emissions	p. 58
Ecologicalissues of justice	p. 82
Torture: a touchstone for global social justice	p. 90
Global social justice and public health	p. 102
Cosmopolitanism, trafficking and migrant labour exploitation	p. 117
Gender and global social justice: peacebuilding and the politics of participation	p. 128
Sexuality, power and global social justice	p. 138
Global social justice: a conclusion	p. 151
Bibliography	p. 153
Index	p. 172
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