Institute for International Health and Development - IIHD
Short Courses
Social Justice
The aim of the course is to understand and critically assess claims for, and approaches to, Social Justice. To reflect on and apply implications for social justice in practice as citizens, activists and professionals in a range of contexts.
Content will include:
- issues, contexts and strategies for social justice
- social movements and social justice claims
- class, gender and 'race'
- philosophical approaches to social justice: religious, Marxist, contractarian and utilitarian
- John Rawls: the difference principle and the original position
- Nancy Fraser: redistribution, recognition and representation
- structural paradigm and difference paradigm
- justice and citizenship
- non violence: Ganghi and his legacy
- extending claims for justice: cosmopolitanism, post-cosmopolitanism and ecological justice
Credit Rating: 15 SCOTCAT
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