POLSC402: Global Justice
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Explore the fundamental concept of justice in the context of human rights. This course delves into political theories, global dynamics, and specific issues like gender, race, and the environment. Discover how global justice and human rights intersect in theory and practice.
Justice, whether considered in abstraction or applied contexts, is fundamentally about human rights.
We will begin this course with an exploration of human rights, a subject that grounds the entire course.
Embedded in the human rights context is an analysis of the political theories of justice-through a cursory review of some of the seminal texts on global justice-along with an examination of applied and distributive justice focusing on specific issues or problems that have arisen in contemporary global dynamics.
Thus, gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity, genocide, self-determination, environmental concerns, class, and participatory rights become the concrete realities to be explored in light of the theoretical material on global justice.
Unit 1: A Human Rights Context for Global Justice
Unit 2: Some Origins of the Contemporary Justice and Rights Discourse
Unit 3: Political Theory and Global Justice
Unit 4: Empowerment, Agency, and Global Justice: Revisiting the Universal-Relative Debate
Unit 5: Resolving Conflictive Claims for Justice: Revisiting the Individual-Collective Debate
Unit 6: Participation, Rights, Needs, and Global Justice: Revisiting Civil, Political and Economic, Social, Cultural Rights Debate
Unit 7: Final Considerations: Are Global and Justice Compatible In Theory and Practice?
