Introduction: Empire, Race and Global Justice

Racism, Postcolonialism, and North-South Relations: On double binds and invisible constitutions

“…Finally, the edited volume Empire Race and Global Justice was lauded as the first to explore the racial and imperial dimensions of normative debates over global justice (Bell 2019). Yet only the chapters on »Race, Corporations, Universalism: The Domestication of Race in International Law« (Pahuja 2019) and »Race and Global Justice« (Mills 2019) directly reference race; none discusses racism thoroughly.…”

“…Finally, even a subject that has long been controversial in IR and IPE is finally being addressed. »Reparations, History and the Origins of Global Justice« (Forrester 2019), a contribution in Empire Race and Global Justice (Bell 2019), signals a bright future for post-and decolonial scholarship. If the political theory of global justice, as Getachew (2019) argues, emerged from the failure of the new international economic order, it follows that global justice can also be framed in redistributive material terms, as Forrester does.…”

Rassismusforschung I

“…Finally, the edited volume Empire Race and Global Justice was lauded as the first to explore the racial and imperial dimensions of normative debates over global justice (Bell 2019). Yet only the chapters on »Race, Corporations, Universalism: The Domestication of Race in International Law« (Pahuja 2019) and »Race and Global Justice« (Mills 2019) directly reference race; none discusses racism thoroughly.…”

“…Finally, even a subject that has long been controversial in IR and IPE is finally being addressed. »Reparations, History and the Origins of Global Justice« (Forrester 2019), a contribution in Empire Race and Global Justice (Bell 2019), signals a bright future for post-and decolonial scholarship. If the political theory of global justice, as Getachew (2019) argues, emerged from the failure of the new international economic order, it follows that global justice can also be framed in redistributive material terms, as Forrester does.…”

Theorizing social change

“…However, radical critics object that the global justice literature takes the perspective of the powerful and affluent as its starting point, thereby relegating the global poor to the status of mere recipients or beneficiaries rather than agents of justice in their own right (Chandhoke, 2012; Deveaux, 2015). Critics argue that institutions like the World Trade Organization lack the incentives, will, and knowledge necessary for transformative change, and are deeply at odds with the actual demands of anti‐reformist, anti‐capitalist social movements in the global South (Bell, 2019). By way of alternatives, these theorists advocate following the lead of poor‐led social movements (Deveaux, 2018) or coalition‐building across a “global civil society” (Chandhoke, 2013; Valdez, 2019).…”