This book examines how justice and reconciliation in world politics should be conceived in response to the injustice and alienation of modern colonialism?
This book examines how justice and reconciliation in world politics should be conceived in response to the injustice and alienation of modern colonialism?
Catherine Lu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montréal. Her research intersects political theory and international relations, focusing on critical and normative studies of humanitarianism and intervention in world politics; justice, reconciliation, and colonialism; and cosmopolitanism, global justice, and the world state. She is the author of Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private (2006), and has held research fellowships from the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, Massachusetts.
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Introduction 1. Justice and reconciliation: Versailles 1919 2. Pathologies of victimhood 3. Settling accounts 4. Agents, structures, and colonial injustice 5. History and structural injustice 6. Reconciliation and alienation 7. Reparations 8. Beyond reparations: towards structural transformation.
