From the Vault: Justice, Democracy, and Society
While Justice Everywhere takes a short break over the summer, we recall some of the highlights from our 2023-24 season.
Here are a few highlights from this year’s writing on a wide range of issues relating to justice, society and democratic systems:
- For our ongoing “Beyond the Ivory Tower” series, Leonie Smith spoke to Lisa Guenther about her work with incarcerated people and what we can learn from her experiences for developing a more just approach to criminal justice.
- Julia Hermann discussed her cutting-edge work on so-called artificial womb technologies and some of the social implications of this technology.
- Peter Dietsch also discussed some of his recent work, in this case on how to think about the oft-repeated claim that modern Western society is “too individualistic”.
- In a much shared guest-post, Marc Sanjaume-Calvet (Universitat Pompeu-Fabra) argues that “Defensive Federalism” can effectively protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority.
- In another fascinating guest-post, Emma Holmes (St Andrews/Stirling) discusses Kate Manne’s recent discussion of food deserts, and urges us to focus on some of the important underlying dynamics.
- Finally, Diana Popescu-Sarry argues that policymakers should pay attention to “post-truth” believers.
Stay tuned for even more on this topic in our 2024-25 season!
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Justice Everywhere will return in full swing in September with fresh weekly posts by our cooperative of regular authors (published on Mondays), in addition to our Journal of Applied Philosophy series and other special series (published on Thursdays). If you would like to contribute a guest post on a topical justice-based issue (broadly construed), please feel free to get in touch with us at justice.everywhere.blog@gmail.com.
