FQP/PPI – Philosophy and Public Issues

Call for submissions of articles on the topic of Structural Injustice

The journal FQP/PPI Philosophy and Public Issues is launching a call for submissions of articles on the topic of ‘structural injustice’ with the aim of contributing to the current academic debates on this topic. Structure has long been a popular concept in political philosophy. The idea that injustice can be built in and reproduced by structures has been shared by a wide variety of schools of thought. Despite this intellectual history, structures, and structural injustice in particular, became a central point for discussion in contemporary political theory following Iris Marion Young’s works (Young, 1990; 2003; 2004; 2006a; 2006b; 2011). Structural injustice and the political responsibility model suggested by Young also sparked a considerable secondary literature that either challenges her views or applies her theory to timely case studies such as colonialism (Lu, 2011; 2017; 2023), climate change (Godoy, 2017), and gender inequality (Nuti, 2019; Parekh, 2011).

We invite submissions of original contributions discussing topics that include, but are not limited to:

• Structural injustice and global justice
• Oppression, domination, exploitation
• Misrecognition and structural injustice
• Liability model vs. political responsibility model
• Responsibility attribution for structural injustice
• Backward-looking remedies vs. forward-looking measures
• Critical discussions on structural injustice (e.g. Estlund 2024)
• Activism and structural change
• Social transformations and structural change
• Historical injustice and structural injustice
• Identity politics and structural injustice
• Structural injustice and vulnerability

The call will complement the publication of a book symposium on Maeve McKeown’s With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice (2024). The book symposium will appear in December 2024.  

Submission Details

Please send a (.doc or .docx) file containing the full paper, prepared for anonymous review with all revealing references to the author removed. All personal information (name, affiliation, and contact) must be submitted separately, along with a short abstract (200 words max). The deadline for submission is 30th August 2024.

All materials must be submitted via e-mail to the editors of the symposium (vgentile@luiss.it & ubulgan@luiss.it), and to the managing editors of FQP/PPI (vvidotto@luiss.it & msavarese@luiss.it).