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Social Justice:A Historical Introduction
No full textSocial justice has returned to the heart of political debate in Europe. While the phenomenon has received significant attention from several academic disciplines, social justice has rarely been explored as a historical subject in its own right. This chapter explores why this should have been so. It argues that the elusiveness of social justice as a historical subject can be explained by the way in which conceptions of social justice were located at the confluence of other historical narratives that have shaped the historiography of twentieth-century Europe. The chapter provides an extensive survey of these influential narratives, which include the rise of state power, the development of cultures of social improvement, the changing popular expectations of government, and the domain of citizenship. The chapter then presents an innovative approach for the historical study of ‘social justice in context’. Focusing on the ways in which conceptions of social justice grew out of the intricate interplay between rulers and ruled, it develops a research agenda that concentrates on the analysis of three distinctive dimensions, including the temporalities, the spatiality, and the actors and agencies of conceptions of social justice.</p
Immigrants and Social Justice in Western Europe since the 1960s
Full text linkDemocracy in Western Europe, even after 1945, was not a regime of equality. As recent work has strongly emphasised, lineages of inequality were inherent to the post-war regimes of Western Europe. This chapter seeks to explain one element of this inequality by focusing on the treatment of the immigrant communities who moved across borders in Western Europe, or indeed arrived from beyond the frontiers of Europe. In doing so, it will focus on how attitudes to immigrants – and the conception of them within a broader framework of social justice – evolved. One of the many significant ways that the ‘long 1968’ challenged the complacency of post-war Western Europe was to present the cause of immigrants as a cause of social justice: immigrants were an oppressed and exploited group of workers whose rights any movement committed to social justice should seek to enhance. By contrast, in Europe today, immigrants are often depicted as antithetical to social justice. What some have dubbed ‘Schrödinger's Immigrant’ simultaneously steals your job and is too lazy to work. Consequently, many commentators have attempted to argue that a fundamental tension exists between ethnic diversity and social equality, and depict mass migration as undermining of social justice. But where did such ‘welfare chauvinism’ originate from, and how did these ideas manage to entrench themselves within public discourse? In other words, how did we get from social justice for immigrants to immigrants as the antithesis of social justice
Immigrants and Social Justice in Western Europe since the 1960s
Full text linkDemocracy in Western Europe, even after 1945, was not a regime of equality. As recent work has strongly emphasised, lineages of inequality were inherent to the post-war regimes of Western Europe. This chapter seeks to explain one element of this inequality by focusing on the treatment of the immigrant communities who moved across borders in Western Europe, or indeed arrived from beyond the frontiers of Europe. In doing so, it will focus on how attitudes to immigrants – and the conception of them within a broader framework of social justice – evolved. One of the many significant ways that the ‘long 1968’ challenged the complacency of post-war Western Europe was to present the cause of immigrants as a cause of social justice: immigrants were an oppressed and exploited group of workers whose rights any movement committed to social justice should seek to enhance. By contrast, in Europe today, immigrants are often depicted as antithetical to social justice. What some have dubbed ‘Schrödinger's Immigrant’ simultaneously steals your job and is too lazy to work. Consequently, many commentators have attempted to argue that a fundamental tension exists between ethnic diversity and social equality, and depict mass migration as undermining of social justice. But where did such ‘welfare chauvinism’ originate from, and how did these ideas manage to entrench themselves within public discourse? In other words, how did we get from social justice for immigrants to immigrants as the antithesis of social justice
Demokratisierungsprozesse in der Nachkriegszeit:Die CDU in Schleswig-Holstein und die Integration demokratieskeptischer Wähler
No full textAlways walk alone? Historians and Collaborations
No full textWhy do historians like to write alone? In this blog article, Camilo Erlichman reflects on the reluctance of historians to engage in collaborative forms of writing, tracing the reasons to the development of the discipline in the 19th century. In doing so, he argues that while mono-authorship will remain a key pillar of the discipline, historians need to embrace more emphatically collective forms of writing: not to succumb to the logics of marketisation, but to diversify their sources and widen their intellectual horizons
Review of Susan L. Carruthers, The Good Occupation. American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace, Cambridge, London: Harvard University Press, 2016
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