Critical Theory and Global Justice: Reimagining Normativity in a Destabilized World

Abstract

The contours of the present world order are shifting. How do we conceptualize the normative terrain of these shifts, and how should they inform our political commitments? The panel explores the fertile intersections between critical theory and global justice, asking how critique, liberation, nondomination, and democracy can be rethought under conditions of multiple overlapping challenges: rising nationalism, de-democratization, extractivism and resource depletion, and the de-centering of Western rationalism. Looking at variety of issues and contexts, it seeks to move beyond ideal theory toward a situated, critical cosmopolitanism attentive to current contexts of oppression, conflict and emancipatory transformation. The papers in this panel embrace a variety of critical-theoretical methods, including immanent critique, hermeneutics, and reconstruction, while at various levels grappling with the tensions between the universal and the particular, the moral and the political. They aim to clarify how critical theory (broadly conceived) may continue to orient an ambitious agenda of global justice in an era of crisis and uncertainty.

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From Conflicts Over Seabed Governance to Wildlife Conservation: Developing a Theory of Global Ecological Justice	View Paper Details
Keywords of the Postcosmopolitan Condition: Putting the New State-Centrism in Perspective	View Paper Details
Critical Theory and Normativity in a Destabilized World	View Paper Details
The Ethics of Choosing Causes	View Paper Details
The Legitimacy of Article 7 TEU: Militant Democracy and Democratic Self-Defence in the European Union	View Paper Details