Jetses, F. (2024) Beginning a Dialogue: The Argument for Institutional Trust for Forward-Looking Collective Action Addressing Structural Injustice and Lessons of Transitional Justice. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
According to Iris Marion Young, structural injustices arise as the cumulative outcome of many different agents' actions that are, for the most part, well within societally accepted norms. As such, addressing structural injustices requires a different approach than injustices where a perpetrator can be pinpointed. Building on McKeown’s differentiation between pure, avoidable, and deliberate structural injustice, this bachelor thesis presents my argument for the use of institutional trust to address avoidable structural injustice. I argue that citizens need to be able to trust that their state will respond to their demands in order to facilitate collective action. I posit that institutional trust is normatively desirable, as it allows leveraging the organisational capacities of the state to remedy avoidable structural injustices. Further, I illustrate how transitional justice instruments, namely truth commissions and lustration, can help in building institutional trust. Here, I identify an opportunity for dialogue between the fields of transitional justice and structural injustice theory. Keywords: Structural injustice, political responsibility, transitional justice, lustration, truth commission, institutional trust, analytic philosophy
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | McKeown, M.C. |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2024 10:33 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jun 2024 10:33 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/404 |
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