It has been well-established that many of the injustices that
people around the world experience every day, from food insecurity
to unsafe labor conditions and natural disasters, are the result of
wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics. These are
not merely random personal problems or consequences of bad luck or
bad planning. Confronted by this fact, it is natural to ask what
should or can we do to mitigate everyday injustices? In one sense,
we answer this question when we buy the local homeless street
newspaper, decide where to buy our clothes, remember our reusable
bags when we shop, donate to disaster relief, or send letters to
corporations about labor rights. But given the global scale of
injustices related to poverty, environmental change, gender, and
labor, can these individual acts really impact the seemingly
intractable global social, political, and economic structures that
perpetuate and exacerbate them? Moreover, can we respond to
injustices in the world in ways that do more than just address
their consequences? In this book, Brooke A. Ackerly both answers
the question of what should we do, and shows that it's the wrong
question to ask. To ask the right question, we need to ground our
normative theory of global justice in the lived experience of
injustice. Using a feminist critical methodology, she argues that
what to do about injustice is not just an ethical or moral
question, but a political question about assuming responsibility
for injustice, regardless of our causal responsibility and extent
of our knowledge of the injustice. Furthermore, it is a matter that
needs to be guided by principles of human rights. As she argues,
while many understand human rights as political goals or
entitlements, they can also guide political strategy. Her aims are
twofold: to present a theory of what it means to take
responsibility for injustice and for ensuring human rights, as well
as to develop a guide for how to take responsibility in ways that
support local and global movements for transformative politics. In
order to illustrate her theory and guide for action, Ackerly draws
on fieldwork on the Rana Plaza collapse in 2013, the food crisis of
2008, and strategies from 125 activist organizations working on
women's and labor rights across 26 countries. Just Responsibility
integrates these ways of taking political responsibility into a
rich theory of political community, accountability, and leadership
in which taking responsibility for injustice itself transforms the
fabric of political life.
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