Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
TL;DR: Lawler as mentioned in this paper argued that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament, which is hardly a rational position in the sense that it is suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some.
Abstract: that a plurality of the American Catholic bishops endorse a nuclear freeze (p. 4), saying that they are thus "taking their stance with Moscow,55 which is for a freeze, and not with the Vatican, which "is still in favor of disarmament?not a freeze.55 To make any sense at all, Mr. Lawler must mean that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament? hardly a rational position. One recalls here the arguments, during the 19305s and 19405s, that being for racial justice in the United States was suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some, because the communists also favored it.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the major contributions made to political theory by Charles Taylor are discussed, focusing on his relationship to liberalism, his contribution to the understanding of democracy and his analysis of the politics of recognition.
Abstract: This review article outlines some of the major contributions made to political theory by Charles Taylor. It focuses on his relationship to liberalism, his contribution to the understanding of democracy and his analysis of the politics of recognition. Several lines of critique of Taylor's thought on these issues are also explored. Some reflections on Taylor's style of theorising about politics are offered, and the question of whether he is a conservative or critical theorist is examined.
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10 Aug 2021TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative study of the perceptions that Iranian EFL teachers had of classroom justice and its main dimensions was conducted, which revealed that all the participants, except one, regarded classroom justice as a crucial element of their instructional practice.
Abstract: In any education context, teachers are mainly responsible for enacting the core values of classroom justice and equality. To address this notion, this qualitative study went through the exploration of the perceptions that Iranian EFL teachers had of classroom justice and its main dimensions. To this end, 31 EFL teachers, chosen through purposive sampling, filled out an openended questionnaire, and a sub-group of them participated in a semi-structured interview. The major findings, resulting from the content and thematic analyses of the data done both manually and through the MAXQDA software (Version 2020), revealed that first, all the participants, except one, regarded classroom justice as a crucial element of their instructional practice; second, interactional, procedural, and distributive dimensions of justice were reflected in the definitions that the teachers provided for classroom justice; and third, in line with the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of the study, the teachers conceptualized the classroom justice dimensions through their unique principles in relation to the various domains of classroom learning, teaching, assessment, and interactions. A pedagogical implication based on the findings is that by becoming aware of how they perceive justice in their instructional practice, teachers may take the initial strides toward enhancing their just treatment of students, and consequently, increase their professional effectiveness.
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...…(e.g. Barry 2001; Benhabib 2002; van Gunsteren 1998; Kymlicka 1995; Kymlicka and Norman 2000; Marshall and Bottomore 1950; Rawls 1971, 1993; Taylor and Gutmann 1994; Walzer 1983) all try to embed the individual and group practices and meaning-making within an overall framework of public interest....
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...The advantage of communitarian writers (see also Walzer 1983) over egalitarian liberals, whose approach is largely confined to inequality issues, is that they directly tackle the difference/sameness problem....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an anatomy of the 2011 Thailand country report to the Committee responsible for the UN Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, in which Thailand recognized its largest ethnic minority community, the Thai Lao, to the international community.
Abstract: This article presents an anatomy of the 2011 Thailand Country Report to the Committee responsible for the UN Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, in which Thailand recognized its largest ethnic minority community, the Thai Lao, to the international community. The article analyses the Country Report as well as the deliberations of the Committee in dialogue with the Thailand Country Delegation. It provides a policy context for the Country Report, including Thailand’s classification of ethnic communities. The article argues the need to minimize racialized discrimination as regards the Thai Lao. Five policy issues, framed in the context of inclusion and which arise from the recognition of the Thai Lao by the Country Report, are considered. The article concludes by discussing how the Thai Lao may be better included in Thailand via political developments towards a social democracy in Thailand, for social democracy can recognize sociocultural rights.
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TL;DR: In this paper, two very different examples (France, Quebec) involving the protection of drinking water are investigated. And they show that environmental actions are permeable to social power relationships.
Abstract: The territorial/local level of action appears to be a key level for making environmental protection decisions, as well as a valuable level of sociological analysis. Based on two very different examples (France, Quebec) involving the protection of drinking water, this article looks at justice-related processes that enable reflection on environmental problems and the ways they are resolved on a territorial scale, in other words, justice as a process of normative judgment. The article therefore shows that environmental actions are permeable to social power relationships. It is in this context of environmental decision making that the justice–environment relationship plays out. However, if the local appears to be the level at which environmental issues are addressed, it rarely produces solutions in favour of nature or natural resource protection. To the contrary, it generates decisions based on ‘just inequalities’ associated with local political and economic arbitration. In this context, two generic models of...
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...The globalizing vision of justice generally promoted by writings on environmental justice stands in contrast to a non-universal vision in which the mechanisms of collective action work together and strive, based on complex equalities, to achieve a highly situated common justice (Walzer 1983)....
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