Please join us in this book talk with Prof. Bruno Perreau. In “Spheres of Injustice”, Perreau studies anti-discrimination policies and politics in France and the US. He shows that reactionary groups abuse the notion of minority by demanding to be protected just as minorities are, while the notion of a “protected class” risks at times encouraging competition among minorities and the very concept of minority is being transformed. To tackle these challenges, Perreau proposes thinking about minority experiences relationally. Perreau introduces intrasectionality, a new concept and an innovative legal strategy, which builds on the idea of intersectionality. Updating one of the greatest classics of political theory, “Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality by Michael Walzer”, Perreau shows that minority presence can teach new forms of responsibility to one another and that the resonances between experiences of injustice—much more than a belief in shared moral principles—ground a political community.

Introductions by Prof. Manduhai Buyandelger

Food will be provided.

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