Author-Meets-Critics: Burke Hendrix's "Strategies of Justice"

Session Submission Type: Author meet critics

Session Description

This is an author-meets-critics panel on Burke Hendrix’s important new book, "Strategies of Justice: Aboriginal Peoples, Persistent Injustice, and the Ethics of Political Action" (Oxford Political Theory, 2019). The book focuses on two intertwined issues: the kinds of moral permissions that those facing persistent injustice have when they act politically, and the kinds of transformations that political action may bring about in those who undertake it. Hendrix argues for normative permissions to speak untruth to power; to circumvent or nullify existing law; to give primary attention to protecting one's own community first; and to engage in political experimentation that reshapes future generations. Three eminent scholars have agreed to serve as “critics:” Dale Turner (Toronto), Glen Coulthard (UBC), and Desmond Jagmohan (UC Berkeley).

Sub Unit

• Division 3: Normative Theory

Chair

• Andrew Valls Oregon State University

Presenters

• Dale Turner Dartmouth College

• Glen Sean Coulthard

• Desmond Jagmohan University of California, Berkeley

• Burke Hendrix University of Oregon