Unjust History and Its New Reproduction—A Reply to My Critics

Abstract Demands calling for reparations historical injustices—injustices whose original victims and perpetrators are now dead—constitute an important component of contemporary struggles social transnational justice. Reparations only one way in which the unjust past is salient politics. In my book, Injustice Reproduction History: Structural Inequalities, Gender Redress , I put forward a framework to conceptualise normative significance past. this article, will engage with insightful comments try address concerns contributors symposium on book. discuss (i) whether what sense incorporates past-regarding duties, (ii) how it different from causal interpretations relationship between present injustice, (iii) can carve out greater place blame our thinking about responsibility (historical) structural (iv) such needs hinge upon account solidarity, (v) de-temporalising injustice cast new light immigration particular, stress further clarify importance that notion ‘structural debt’, book develops reflect responsibility, play owed history.