Contexts of Justice
Native Peoples, Political Theory, and Fair Treatment
Seiten
2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
9780198961000 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
9780198961000 (ISBN)
Indigenous peoples in North America have long argued that they are treated unfairly when their historically grounded political and property rights are disregarded by the United States and Canada. This book explains the normative structure of such claims for fair treatment and defends their overall plausibility.
Non-Indigenous citizens of the United States and Canada often argue that it is unfair for Indigenous peoples to have distinctive political and property rights within countries purportedly dedicated to equal treatment. Yet Indigenous nations in the United States and Canada have long made claims for a more contextually rich sense of fairness, and their legal and political successes in these efforts - difficult, uneven, and partial as they has been - have allowed them to continue to exist into the present. Their fairness arguments have thus found traction even in the face of longstanding political animosity.
Situated within debates on ideal and non-ideal theory, this book begins from arguments of this kind, and seeks to show why they are defensible within a contextually-rich theory of political fairness for Indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada. Structured to be accessible to political theorists and their students with little background in Indigenous politics, the book argues that this broader conception of fairness applies in relation to political sovereignty, ownership rights, cultural choices, and - uncomfortably - racially-inflected standards of tribal membership. Seeking to outline parameters for potential future political orders, it argues that such a contextually-rich standard of fairness is likely to be required long into the future as well, given the unavoidably variegated texture of human social order.
Non-Indigenous citizens of the United States and Canada often argue that it is unfair for Indigenous peoples to have distinctive political and property rights within countries purportedly dedicated to equal treatment. Yet Indigenous nations in the United States and Canada have long made claims for a more contextually rich sense of fairness, and their legal and political successes in these efforts - difficult, uneven, and partial as they has been - have allowed them to continue to exist into the present. Their fairness arguments have thus found traction even in the face of longstanding political animosity.
Situated within debates on ideal and non-ideal theory, this book begins from arguments of this kind, and seeks to show why they are defensible within a contextually-rich theory of political fairness for Indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada. Structured to be accessible to political theorists and their students with little background in Indigenous politics, the book argues that this broader conception of fairness applies in relation to political sovereignty, ownership rights, cultural choices, and - uncomfortably - racially-inflected standards of tribal membership. Seeking to outline parameters for potential future political orders, it argues that such a contextually-rich standard of fairness is likely to be required long into the future as well, given the unavoidably variegated texture of human social order.
Burke Hendrix is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on political theory and Indigenous politics in the United States and Canada, with interests in historical injustice, political territoriality, property ownership, and cultural difference. He is the author of Strategies of Justice: Aboriginal Peoples, Persistent Injustice, and the Ethics of Political Action (OUP, 2019).
1: Introduction: Native Peoples and Persistent Injustice
2: Methods of Normative Analysis
3: Political Inheritances
4: Property and Fairness
5: Culture and Equal Treatment
6: Race and Membership
7: Conclusion: Non-Ideal Theory and Political Futures
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.11.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 167 x 244 mm |
| Gewicht | 523 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780198961000 / 9780198961000 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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