A very British domination contract? Charles W. Mills’ theoretical framework and understanding social justice in Britain

Bain, Zara 2021. A very British domination contract? Charles W. Mills’ theoretical framework and understanding social justice in Britain. Gordon, Faith and Newman, Daniel, eds. Leading Works in Law and Social Justice, Routledge, (10.4324/9780429287572-4)

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Abstract

Chapter 3 looks at the work of Charles Mills, taking in a range of his scholarship including his most famous work – The Racial Contract – and his latest work, Black Rights, White Wrongs. Zara Bain applies Mills to consider how social justice applies in the UK. She looks at the interactions and co-constitutions of racism, classism, and ableism, and the role they play in the production of poverty. The chapter argues that Mills offers us a non-ideal contractarian analysis that may really offer ‘x-ray vision’ into parts of society many would readily, if not always credibly, deny precisely because it pushes us to look at the world as it really is, to learn our history and to be always on the lookout for the many ways that ignorance about matters of significant import to questions of social justice can be actively, resiliently produced.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9780367253974
Last Modified:	01 Dec 2021 16:58
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/143921

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