What is Structural Injustice?

What is Structural Injustice? is the first edited collection to bring together the voices of leading structural injustice scholars to provide an overview of this profoundly important concept.

The volume features specially selected original and essential works on structural injustice, providing a range of disciplinary, ontological, and epistemological perspectives on what structural injustice is, and includes feminist and post-colonial theories to interrogate how structural injustice exacerbates and reproduces existing inequalities and relations of power.

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Jude Browne, Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge,Maeve McKeown, Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen

Jude Browne is Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, a Professorial Fellow in Social and Political Sciences at King's College, and the Frankopan Director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.


Maeve McKeown is an Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the interdisciplinary faculty, Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen. Previously she was a Lecturer in Philosophy at Cambridge University, a Junior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, and a postdoc at Justitia Amplifcata, Goethe University Frankfurt.

Introduction, Jude Browne & Maeve McKeown
1. Structural Harm, Structural Injustice, Structural Repair, Jonathan Wolff
2. Transformative Action as Structural and Publicly-Constituted, Mara Marin
3. Agency Under Structural Constraints in Social Systems, Sally Haslanger
4. Pure, Avoidable, and Deliberate Structural Injustice, Maeve McKeown
5. The Untraceability of Structural Injustice, Jude Browne
6. Responsibility, Structural Injustice and Settler Colonialism, Catherine Lu
7. Structural Injustice and the Two Faces of Vulnerability, Jade Schiff
8. COVID-19 and Global Structural Health Inequality, Ryoa Chung
9. Moral Justification and Structural Epistemic Injustice, Alison Jaggar & Theresa Tobin
10. Decolonizing Structural Justice and Political Responsibility, Lewis R Gordon
11. Murmurations of Injustice: Dynamics of Structural Injustice and Epistemic Oppression, Brooke Ackerly
12. Towards a Pluralistic Account of Structural Injustice, Alasia Nuti
13. Structures of Injustice, the Law, and Exploitative Work, Virginia Mantouvalou
14. Gender Inequality, Structural Injustice and Political Responsibility, Serena Parekh