Table of Contents

Introduction: empire, race, and global justice Duncan Bell; 1. Reparations, history, and the origins of global justice Katrina Forrester; 2. The doctor's plot: the origins of the philosophy of human rights Samuel Moyn; 3. Corporations, universalism and the domestication of race in international law Sundhya Pahuja; 4. Race and global justice Charles W. Mills; 5. Association, reciprocity and emancipation: a transnational account of the politics of global justice Ines Valdez; 6. Global justice: just another modernisation theory? Anne Phillips; 7. Globalizing global justice Margaret Kohn; 8. Challenging liberal belief: Edward said and the critical practice of history Jeanne Morefield; 9. Cosmopolitan just war and coloniality Kimberley Hutchings; 10. Indigenous peoples, settler colonialism, and global justice in Anglo-America Robert Nichols; 11. Decolonizing borders, self-determination, and global justice Catherine Lu.

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The first volume to explore the role of race and empire in political theory debates over global justice.

About the Author

Duncan Bell is a Reader in Political Thought and International Relations at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Reviews

'Duncan Bell has done what few editors manage to do: assemble a volume that is much more than the sum of its parts. That's a real accomplishment, given the impressive and diverse line-up of scholars who make up the parts of this astonishing collection. Empire, Race and Global Justice will quickly become an essential reference for anyone working in this field.' Michael Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh
'Contemporary global justice debates have been largely silent on the issues of race and empire. This superb collection of essays begins to fill this gap by bringing together leading scholars from a range of fields, including history, law, philosophy and international relations. They show how critical awareness of liberalism's past is crucial to assessing the viability of liberal projects in the present, and to conceiving of plausible alternatives for the future.' Lea Ypi, London School of Economics and Political Science
'This consistently excellent volume puts race and empire at the heart of discussions of global justice, where they should be. Racial domination and white supremacy, alongside imperial rule and settler colonialism, have profoundly shaped the contemporary global order. Theories of global justice must take stock of this truth if they are to mount anything like an adequate response to the inequality, exploitation, poverty, endemic violence and environmental degradation that afflict our world. These lucid and accessible essays, at once historical and theoretical, offer a persistently thoughtful challenge to the widespread neglect of race and empire in the literature on global justice.' Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago
'Duncan Bell has done what few editors manage to do: assemble a volume that is much more than the sum of its parts. That's a real accomplishment, given the impressive and diverse line-up of scholars who make up the parts of this astonishing collection. Empire, Race and Global Justice will quickly become an essential reference for anyone working in this field.' Michael Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh
'Contemporary global justice debates have been largely silent on the issues of race and empire. This superb collection of essays begins to fill this gap by bringing together leading scholars from a range of fields, including history, law, philosophy and international relations. They show how critical awareness of liberalism's past is crucial to assessing the viability of liberal projects in the present, and to conceiving of plausible alternatives for the future.' Lea Ypi, London School of Economics and Political Science
'This consistently excellent volume puts race and empire at the heart of discussions of global justice, where they should be. Racial domination and white supremacy, alongside imperial rule and settler colonialism, have profoundly shaped the contemporary global order. Theories of global justice must take stock of this truth if they are to mount anything like an adequate response to the inequality, exploitation, poverty, endemic violence and environmental degradation that afflict our world. These lucid and accessible essays, at once historical and theoretical, offer a persistently thoughtful challenge to the widespread neglect of race and empire in the literature on global justice.' Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago