What is it about?
This book argues that there is a human right to resistance and that global poverty is sufficiently unjust for those living in poverty to engage in resistance. It then examines four test cases for how resistance might manifest: transnational social movements, illegal immigration, redistributive war, and armed struggle. The book concludes with what duties this right imposes on people living in relative affluence.
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Why is it important?
This book repositions the literature on global distributive justice away from affluent people benefitting from unjust social institutions to the victims of these institutions. It treats people living in poverty as agents and focuses on what they are entitled to do in circumstances where there is intransigent non-compliance with duties of justice.
Perspectives
The idea for this book began while I was writing my PhD. I became extremely frustrated with the utopianism of cosmopolitan theories of global distributive justice. Their solutions to global poverty seemed unlikely to occur in my lifetime and those living in poverty were not really considered to be agents able to emancipate themselves. This book is an attempt to change the debate to be more focussed on justice in a non-ideal world
Dr Gwilym David Blunt
City University
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This page is a summary of: Global Poverty, Injustice, and Resistance, December 2019, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/9781108647472.
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Resources
The Case for Illegal Immigration
A blog post that recapitulates the argument that illegal immigration is a form of resistance.
Global Poverty, Injustice, and Resistance Sample
The first ten pages are available at Cambridge University Press.
Sometimes the most powerful act of resistance is to do nothing
A short article on the duties imposed by the right of resistance.
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