Table Of ContentEmpire, Race and Global Justice
Thestatusofboundariesandborders,questionsofglobalpovertyand
inequality,criteriaforthelegitimateusesofforce,thevalueofinterna-
tionallaw,humanrights,nationality,sovereignty,migration,territory,
andcitizenship:debatesoverthesecriticalissuesarecentraltocontem-
poraryunderstandingsofworldpolitics.Bringingtogetheraninterdis-
ciplinaryrangeofcontributors,includinghistorians,politicaltheorists,
lawyers,andinternationalrelationsscholars,thisisthefirstvolumeofits
kindtoexploretheracialandimperialdimensionsofnormativedebates
overglobaljustice.
DuncanBellisReaderinPoliticalThoughtandInternationalRelationsat
theUniversityofCambridge,andaFellowofChrist’sCollege.
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Contents
ListofContributors pagevii
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction:Empire,RaceandGlobalJustice 1
duncan bell
1. Reparations,HistoryandtheOriginsofGlobalJustice 22
katrina forrester
2. TheDoctor’sPlot:TheOriginsofthePhilosophyof
HumanRights 52
samuel moyn
3. Corporations,Universalism,andtheDomesticationof
RaceinInternationalLaw 74
sundhya pahuja
4. RaceandGlobalJustice 94
charles w. mills
5. Association,Reciprocity,andEmancipation:
ATransnationalAccountofthePoliticsofGlobalJustice 120
inés valdez
6. GlobalJustice:JustAnotherModernisationTheory? 145
anne phillips
7. GlobalizingGlobalJustice 163
margaret kohn
8. ChallengingLiberalBelief:EdwardSaidandtheCritical
PracticeofHistory 184
jeanne morefield
9. CosmopolitanJustWarandColoniality 211
kimberley hutchings
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10. IndigenousPeoples,SettlerColonialism,andGlobal
JusticeinAnglo-America 228
robert nichols
11. DecolonizingBorders,Self-Determination,andGlobal
Justice 251
catherine lu
Index 273
Contributors
duncan bell is Reader in Political Thought and International
Relations,andafellowofChrist’sCollege,UniversityofCambridge.
katrina forrester is Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard
University.
kimberley hutchings is Professor of Politics and International
RelationsatQueenMaryUniversityofLondon.
margaret kohn is Professor of Political Science at the University of
Toronto.
catherine lu is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill
University.
charles w. mills isProfessorofPhilosophyat theCityUniversityof
NewYork.
jeanne morefield isProfessorofPoliticsatWhitmanCollege.
samuel moyn isProfessorofLawandHistoryatYaleUniversity.
robert nichols is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the
UniversityofMinnesota.
sundhya pahuja isProfessorofInternationalLaw,andDirectorofthe
Institute of Law and the Humanities, at the University of Melbourne
LawSchool.
annephillipsfbaistheGrahamWallasProfessorofPoliticalScience,
andProfessorofGenderandPoliticalTheory,attheLondonSchoolof
Economics.
inés valdez isAssistantProfessorofPoliticalScienceattheOhioState
University.
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Acknowledgements
Many of the chapters inthis book were first presentedat a workshop in
CambridgeinApril2016.I’dliketothankOrRosenboimforhersupport
inorganisingtheevent,Queens’College,Cambridge,forhostingit,and
theTrevelyanFundoftheFacultyofHistory,theDepartmentofPolitics
and International Studies, and the Leverhulme Trust, for generously
fundingit.IwouldalsoliketothankTaylor&Francisforpermissionto
reprint,inmodifiedform,anessaybyCharlesW.Mills.Thanksalsoto
RandallPersuadandJeanneMorefieldforcommentingontheintroduc-
tory chapter. John Haslam at Cambridge University Press has been an
exemplaryeditor.Aboveall,Iwouldliketothankthecontributorstothe
volumefortheircommitmenttotheproject.
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