Structural Domination and Exploitation - Sponsored by Justitia Amplificata Research Center

Abstract

This Panel is sponsored by Justitia Amplificata Research Center. Structural forms of domination and exploitation have formed an important focus of Marxist and feminist theories. However this focus has been neglected both by liberal responsibility-sensitive accounts of justice, upholding the view that self-inflicted harm must never be redressed by justice. Similarly, many recent theories of domination and even some theories of exploitation have theorised these respective wrongs in inter-agential or even inter-actional terms. Recent work on structural exploitation and domination challenges the interpersonal focus of these liberal views. This has important implications for our theorizing of (in-)justices. For example, if structural exploitation and domination is a sub-species of injustice and not necessarily reducible to responsibility-sensitive accounts of injustice then an account of structural exploitation and domination can provide us with an alternative to responsibility-sensitive approaches to social justice. The panel particularly welcomes contributions that wish to link recent (and classic) accounts of exploitation and domination to current debates on the nature and scope of responsibility and structural injustice.