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The Good Life and the Bad: The Dialectics of Solidarity

Rai, Shirin M.

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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
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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