Datum: 5 november 2025
Tid: 10:00-11:45
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online.
Research seminar with Stephanie Collins, Associate Professor at Monash University. Her research spans all areas of moral, social and political philosophy.
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Abstract:
A structural injustice occurs when social, economic, or political processes produce unjust outcomes, where those processes cannot be reduced to identifiable wrongs perpetrated by isolatable agents. Examples include climate change, widespread homelessness, and exploitative work practices. In circumstances of structural injustice, it can be difficult to identify responsible agents. This paper proposes a care-ethical approach to understanding responsibility for structural injustice. On this approach, responsibility derives from the inevitable fact of human interdependency. This responsibility calls upon each of us to perform contextually-embedded and open-ended actions of care, utilising the levers our social roles make available to us. The paper outlines how this approach complements and builds upon existing approaches in the literature on responsibility for structural injustice.
Notice: Stephanie Collins will be presenting online, from Australia.
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