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Why expanding capabilities does not necessarily imply reducing injustice: an assessment of Amartya Sen’s Idea of Justice in the context of Mexico’s Oportunidades/Prospera
Review of Social Economy Pub Date : 2021-02-10 , DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1881150
Oscar Garza-Vázquez 1
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The idea that discussions about justice ought to offer practical political guidance has gained force in recent years. In this context, Sen's Idea of Justice (2009) aims at fulfilling this role. I assess to what extent Sen's comparative approach to justice succeeds in providing a useful conceptual framework to reduce injustice in practice, as it claims. Using the context of poverty in Mexico, and the social programme Oportunidades/Prospera as illustration, I argue that Sen's approach remains insufficient to guide injustice-reduction actions effectively. First, I note that despite enhancing individual's capabilities, these social improvements have not translated into a more just social reality overall. Second, I associate these shortcomings to the failure of capability-enhancing policies in accounting for the relational reproduction of injustice. Therefore, I conclude that to reduce injustice, we need to broaden the scope of injustice-reduction policies to address the ways in which injustice is reproduced through social interactions.



中文翻译:

为什么扩大能力并不一定意味着减少不公正:在墨西哥机会/繁荣背景下对阿马蒂亚·森正义理念的评估

近年来,关于正义的讨论应该提供实用的政治指导的观点越来越盛行。在此背景下,森的正义理念(2009)旨在履行这一职责。我评估了森的正义比较方法在多大程度上成功地提供了一个有用的概念框架,以减少实践中的不公正现象,正如它所声称的那样。利用墨西哥的贫困背景和社会计划Oportunidades / Prospera作为例证,我认为森的方法仍然不足以有效指导减少不公正的行动。首先,我注意到,尽管提高了个人的能力,但这些社会进步并没有转化为整体上更加公正的社会现实。其次,我将这些缺陷与能力增强政策在解决不公正的关系再生产方面的失败联系在一起。因此,我的结论是,为了减少不公正,我们需要扩大减少不公正政策的范围,以解决通过社会互动再现不公正的方式。

更新日期:2021-02-10
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