Economic Justice

About: Economic Justice is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 41600 publications have been published within this topic receiving 661535 citations.

Imagining America at War: Morality, Politics and Film

Abstract: Ten films released between 9/11 and Gulf War II reflect raging debates about US foreign policy and what it means to be an American. Tracing the portrayal of America in the films Pearl Harbor (World War II); We Were Soldiers and The Quiet American (the Vietnam War); Behind Enemy Lines, Black Hawk Down and Kandahar (episodes of humanitarian intervention); Collateral Damage and In the Bedroom (vengeance in response to loss); Minority Report (futurist pre-emptive justice); and Fahrenheit 9/11 (an explicit critique of Bush’s entire war on terror), Cynthia Weber presents a stimulating new study of how Americans construct their identity and the moral values that inform their foreign policy. This is not just another book about post-9/11 America. It introduces the concept of 'moral grammars of war', and explains how they are articulated: Many Americans asked in the wake of 9/11 – not only 'why do they hate us?' but 'what does it mean to be a moral America(n) and how might such an America(n) act morally in contemporary international politics? This text explores how these questions were answered at the intersections of official US foreign policy and post-9/11 popular films. It also details US foreign policy formation in relation to traditional US narratives about US identity ‘who we think we were/are’, 'who we wish we’d never been', 'who we really are', and 'who we might become' as well as in relation to their foundations in nationalist discourses of gender and sexuality.This book will be of great interest to students of American Studies, US Foreign Policy, Contemporary US History, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Film Studies.

Psychotherapy, Distributive Justice, and Social Work: Part 1: Distributive Justice as a Conceptual Framework for Social Work

Abstract: This is the first part of a two-part article analyzing the relation between psychotherapy and social work. This part provides a new account of the nature of social work. It is first argued that each profession is defined by an "organizing value" that it aims to promote. Then, using John Rawls's theory of justice as a framework, it is argued that the organizing value of social work is distributive justice; that is, social work strives to ensure that no person is deprived of a fair minimum level of those basic social goods to which everyone is entitled. Rawls's theory implies that the social goods relevant to justice include certain psychological traits, such as self-respect, but not mental health. This allows for a distinction between clinical social work, which uses psychological intervention to pursue justice, and other forms of therapy, which pursue mental health. Part 2, to appear in the next issue of this journal, will use this framework to explore the nature of clinical social work.

Goods and Virtues

Abstract: Preface Introduction Goods and lives Relative virtues Dependent goods, dependent virtues, and the primacy of justice Admirable immorality Goods and reasons Stoicism and the limits of human good Conclusion Index