Keywords
universality
class relations
politics of difference
postmodernism
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Abstract
The article analyzes political and epistemological limitations of postmodern
critique of justice in the midst of an economic and ideological rule of free
market universalism. Interpreting the lack of political response to a fire of chicken
processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, which took 25 victims, the author
discusses questions of identity politics, multiculturalism, situatedness, otherness
and difference. It is impossible, in Harvey’s opinion, to discuss them apart from
political environment and material conditions. The return to economic issues (including
question of exploitation, class and accumulation), neglected by postmodernists,
and epistemology based on historical and geographical materialism provide
us with an opportunity for the recovery of concepts of universality (in dialectical
relation with particularity) and social justice as a powerful mobilizing discourse for
political action.
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