PROF Shirin Rai sr86@soas.ac.uk
Professor of Politics & Intl Studies
The Good Life and the Bad: The Dialectics of Solidarity
Rai, Shirin M.
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Abstract
This essay asks four questions about the good life. First, what place has recognition of exclusion in the politics of redistribution? Second, can we imagine a public good life without also paying attention to the private and how does the private leach into the public imagination of a good life? Third, what obligations of justice are necessary to ensure our shared good lives? Finally, can we imagine new ways of thinking about resistance and change through alliances of the excluded? I argue that the imagination of a good life needs to be contextual, it is gendered and it is solidaristic.
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Rai, S. M. (2018). The Good Life and the Bad: The Dialectics of Solidarity. Social Politics, 45(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxx023
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 3, 2018 |
Publication Date | Mar 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Apr 5, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 5, 2023 |
Print ISSN | 1072-4745 |
Electronic ISSN | 1468-2893 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 45 |
Issue | 2 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxx023 |
Publisher URL | https://academic.oup.com/sp/article/25/1/1/4943990 |
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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society, 45 (2) 2018 published by Oxford University Press, following peer review. Re-use is subject to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
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