Maeve McKeown

What is structural injustice, and who ultimately bears responsibility for it? Drawing on case studies from sweatshops to climate change, Maeve McKeown goes beyond the widely accepted narrative of unintended consequences and blameless participation to explain how structural injustice operates and what we as individuals can do about it. What is the political responsibility of ordinary individuals? How can ordinary individuals with very little power pressure morally responsible, powerful agents to address structural injustice? This is a fundamental reassessment of the relationship between power, ordinary people and responsibility for structural injustice.
 

Maeve McKeown is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Campus Fryslan, University of Groningen and has previously worked at Oxford, Cambridge and the Goethe University Frankfurt. She is the author of With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) and co-editor of What is Structural Injustice? (Oxford University Press, 2024).