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"Until recently, struggles for justice proceeded against the background of a taken-for-granted frame: the bounded territorial state. With that ""Westphalian"" picture of political space assumed by default, the scope of justice was rarely subject to open dispute. Today, however, human-rights activists and international feminists join critics of structural adjustment and the World Trade Organization in challenging the view that justice can only be a domestic relation among fellow citizens. Targeting injustices that cut across borders, they are making the scale of justice an object of explicit struggle. Inspired by these efforts, Nancy Fraser asks: What is the proper frame for theorizing justice? Faced with a plurality of competing scales, how do we know which one is truly just? In exploring these questions, Fraser revises her widely discussed theory of redistribution and recognition. She introduces a third, ""political"" dimension of justice--representation--and elaborates a new, reflexive type of critical theory that foregrounds injustices of ""misframing."" Engaging with thinkers such as Jurgen Habermas, John Rawls, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt, she envisions a ""postwestphalian"" mapping of political space that accommodates transnational solidarity, transborder publicity, and democratic frame-setting, as well as emancipatory projects that cross borders. The result is a sustained reflection on who should count with respect to what in a globalizing world."

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Fraser makes a persuasive case that it is the theorist's duty to become acutely sensitive to globalization and all its effects. -- Noelle McAfee, Signs

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Nancy Fraser is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research and was recently named to a Chaire Blaise Pascal at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris. She is the author (with Axel Honneth) of Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange; Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the Postsocialist Condition; and Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory. Her newest book is Adding Insult to Injury: Debating Redistribution, Recognition, and Representation.

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