...The strong revulsion to injustice and a basic sense of right informed the Scottish abolition movement. The perception that Scotland was a ‘land of freedom’ was fuelled by enlightenment thinkers and poets such as Robert Burns. But there was much opposition to encounter. Hostile press coverage...

...This chapter asks the question, how would one decide what the right thing to do is in any given situation if one were to follow Deleuze and Guattari’s thinking? It argues that since Deleuze and Guattari were explicitly concerned with matters to do with injustice (Deleuze wrote about the injustices...

... do not get justice. abuse amica malitia badness marriage meretrix Phronesium character Plautus pregnancy rape sex labour sex work Terence Diniarchus character epistemic injustice feminist epistemology gender Menander Bacchis Callicles character enslavement mothers motherhood class...

... by rape myths (i.e. false narratives about rape). My analysis provides insight into how ancient Roman rape myths contribute to hermeneutical injustice (Fricker, Medina) and how Ovid’s narrative simultaneously problematizes and reinforces epistemic injustice in ways that resonate with the modern #MeToo...

... are certain to fail. It is argued that the way to meet the challenge of terrorism is to ensure that the oppressed always have peaceful political means of redress at their disposal. Where such means are denied, it is inevitable that violence will occur. Terrorists exploit injustice and claim to represent just...

... capability-denying domination. It begins with a discussion of republicanism as a theory of bounded citizenship and the idea that republicanism has no theory of distributive justice. It then examines global injustice and capability-denying relations of domination between the rich and powerful and the poor...

... concerning absolute (non-comparative) levels of advantage. In this connection, the chapter identifies four main forms of inefficiency. Even when combined with other principles of justice, luck egalitarianism leads that combination towards one or another form of injustice. A stronger account of distributive...

... injustice” (Fricker 2010) by other characters and narrators, alongside his agency in resisting narrative violence. The chapter also engages with Coetzee’s concept of the “poetics of failure,” addressing the crisis of narrativization in the novel as experienced by its narrators and focalisers, and exploring...

...Are global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution achievable in practice? The eight chapters within this book assess fields including humanitarian and development aid, the slave trade, health care assistance, reparations for historical injustices, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund...

... account of global injustice takes its starting point from accounts of wealth inequalities and an analysis of why such inequalities are unjust. Yet, the causes of the appallingly poor health outcomes in developing nations are complex, as are the difficulties we face in identifying who, if anybody...

...This chapter offers an historical reading of injustices in South Africa. Drawing on South African fiction as well as the medium of film, it documents the injustice of the sociohistorical constellation after the South African War on to the one during apartheid. The chapter analyses C. Louis...

... exceptional exceptionality living dead prisons Butler Judith subjects collective memory enforced disappearance temporality Bargu Banu necroresistance weaponise network guerrilla mourning dead body Necropolitics epistemic injustice memory counter-memory epistemic resistance power/knowledge...

...This chapter explores the dynamics of knowledge production and narrative authority in Prometheus Bound through the lens of contemporary philosophical work on epistemic injustice (Lorraine Code, Miranda Fricker, Gaile Pohlhaus) and epistemic resistance (Aida Hurtado, José Medina...

... Psychiatric Assault dis empowering factors Hearing Voices Network injustice King M L National Survivor User Network Barnett S Mad Pride Mad Studies mental disorder user involvement Department of Health UK DSM Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders individualisation medical model...

... that, by privileging Athenian pederastic norms and ignoring Roman sexual mores, Eumolpus’ Pergamene Boy meets the conditions for contributory injustice as defined by Kristie Dotson. By applying the concept of contributory injustice to a literary narrative from ancient Rome...

... and injustice and expectations for future freedom and justice. The book firmly links the history of Europe to world history, situating European modernity in its global context....