•  354
    The Ethics of Reparations Policies
    In Andrei Poama & Annabelle Lever (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy, Routledge. pp. 332-343. 2019.
    We identify the ethics of reparations policies as its own distinct field of inquiry, and consider several neglected ethical issues that arise in the process of devising reparations programmes. The problem of political instrumentalization has to do with the fact that reparations can be a way for the governments to bolster their legitimacy rather than achieve justice. The problem of exclusion refers to individuals with seemingly valid claims being turned away. Finally, the problem of inclusion has…Read more
  •  177
    This article discusses the growth of the populist radical right as a concrete example of the scenario where liberal democratic ideas are losing support in broadly liberal democratic societies. Our goal is to enrich John Rawls’ influential theory of political liberalism. We argue that even in that underexplored scenario, Rawlsian political liberalism can offer an appealing account of how to promote the legitimacy and stability of liberal democratic institutions provided it places partisanship cen…Read more
  •  174
    Originally proposed by John Rawls, the idea of reasoning from conjecture is popular among the proponents of political liberalism in normative political theory. Reasoning from conjecture consists in discussing with fellow citizens who are attracted to illiberal and antidemocratic ideas by focusing on their religious or otherwise comprehensive doctrines, attempting to convince them that such doctrines actually call for loyalty to liberal democracy. Our goal is to criticise reasoning from conjectur…Read more
  •  71
    A nation’s right to exclude and the Colonies
    Political Theory 44 (4): 541-566. 2016.
    This essay contends that postcolonial migrants have a right to enter their former colonizing nations, and that these should accept them. Our novel argument challenges well-established justifications for restrictions in immigration-policies advanced in liberal nationalism, which links immigration controls to the nation’s self-determination and the legitimate preservation of national identity. To do so, we draw on postcolonial analyses of colonialism, in particular on Edward Said’s notion of “inte…Read more
  •  55
    On structural injustice, reconciliation and alienation
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (4): 530-537. 2020.
  •  42
    Temporary Labor Migration within the EU as Structural Injustice
    Ethics and International Affairs 32 (2): 203-225. 2018.
    Temporary labor migration constitutes a significant trend of migration movements within the European Union, especially after the 2004 and 2007 EU enlargements. However, compared to other forms of TLM, intra-EU TLM has received scant attention from normative theorists. By drawing on Iris Marion Young's conception of structural injustice, this article analyzes the injustice of TLM within the EU. It argues that purely rights-based approaches are deficient and that a structural injustice approach is…Read more
  •  22
    Unjust History and Its New Reproduction—A Reply to My Critics
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 24 (5): 1245-1259. 2021.
    Demands calling for reparations for historical injustices—injustices whose original victims and perpetrators are now dead—constitute an important component of contemporary struggles for social and transnational justice. Reparations are only one way in which the unjust past is salient in contemporary politics. In my book, Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress, I put forward a framework to conceptualise the normative significance of the unjust past.…Read more
  •  18
    How should marriage be theorised?
    Feminist Theory 17 (3): 285-302. 2016.
    Feminists have noted the injustice of the institution of marriage and the asymmetric power dynamics within gender-structured marriages. Recently, feminists have found an unexpected supporter of this struggle against marriage in some liberal political theorists. I argue that this new wave of interest in the wrongness of marriage within liberalism reveals shortcomings from a feminist perspective. While some liberals fail to realise that instead of being disestablished, the institution of marriage …Read more
  •  17
    Introduction
    Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 9 (2). 2016.
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    Reconsidering Reparations
    Philosophical Quarterly 73 (3): 884-887. 2022.
    On 17 November 2018, members of the ‘Stop The Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide Campaign’ (SMWeCGEC)—a Pan-Afrikan Liberation Advocacy Campaigning formatio.
  •  14
    Resisting the global neoliberal economy
    European Journal of Political Theory 22 (2): 346-353. 2023.
    As a Western citizen, am I responsible for the serious injustices, such as sweatshop labour, characterising our global economy? Benjamin McKean’s terrific new book, Disorienting Neoliberalism: Global Justice and the Outer Limit of Freedom, shows why this is a misleading question – one that will not properly orient us in relation to the neoliberal economy. McKean argues that we need to recognise that we are unfree under unjust transnational economic institutions and thus we have a shared interest…Read more
  •  8
    Resisting the global neoliberal economy
    European Journal of Political Theory 22 (2): 346-353. 2023.
    As a Western citizen, am I responsible for the serious injustices, such as sweatshop labour, characterising our global economy? Benjamin McKean’s terrific new book, Disorienting Neoliberalism: Global Justice and the Outer Limit of Freedom, shows why this is a misleading question – one that will not properly orient us in relation to the neoliberal economy. McKean argues that we need to recognise that we are unfree under unjust transnational economic institutions and thus we have a shared interest…Read more
  • Editorial
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 25 (5): 713-715. 2022.
  • Editorial
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 1-3. forthcoming.