A quest for social justice: a colloquium to build a network

Abstract

The goal of social justice can sometimes be seen as making a lion’s den, a happy zoo. It can also be seen as balancing the competing claims for common spaces, be it in economic, social or cultural domains. But the most contentious situation arises when historically marginalized communities expect past wrongs to be set right through affirmative action. The contestation arises not just on the action the state or the other civil society actors take, or the intentions behind those actions but also on the consequences of those actions. Three spheres of social responsibility could be: Intentions, actions, and consequences. These three spheres are mutually overlapping and the zone where these three spheres intersect is the zone that is of utmost importance to this colloquium.