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Colonialism as Structural Injustice: Historical Responsibility and Contemporary Redress†

  1. CATHERINE LU

Article first published online: 18 APR 2011

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9760.2011.00403.x

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Journal of Political Philosophy

Journal of Political Philosophy

Special Issue: Philosophy, Politics & Society

Volume 19, Issue 3, pages 261–281, September 2011

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LU, C. (2011), Colonialism as Structural Injustice: Historical Responsibility and Contemporary Redress. Journal of Political Philosophy, 19: 261–281. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9760.2011.00403.x

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  1. Political Science, McGill University

  1. †

    The author wishes to thank Arash Abizadeh, Ashok Acharya, Christian Barry, James Fishkin, Pablo Gilabert, Bob Goodin, Mark Kramer, Lorenz Lüthi, Colleen Murphy, Alan Patten, Makoto Suzuki, Timothy Waligore and an anonymous referee for their helpful discussions and/or written comments. She would also like to thank Kristin Rawls and Janine Pietsch for their research assistance. A shorter, earlier version of this article appeared in a Korean language translation: “Colonialism as structural injustice and implications for responsibilities of repair,”The Journal of Asiatic Studies, 53 (2010), 33–54. Later versions of this article benefited from discussions at the Canadian Political Science Association annual meeting (May 2010) at Concordia University; the Society for Applied Philosophy annual meeting (July 2010), at St. Anne's College, Oxford University; and in a Comparative Theory seminar (December 2010) at the Developing Countries Research Centre at the University of Delhi. The author is grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, as well as the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, for their financial support of this work.

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  1. Issue published online: 25 JUL 2011
  2. Article first published online: 18 APR 2011

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