Alberto Ruiz Méndez
Who Are the Subjects of Justice in a Globalized World? From the ‘Unidimensional Identity’ to the ‘Diversity of Identities’
Alberto Ruiz Méndez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Abstract: This article states that the idea of national citizenship, bound to rights and duties circumscribed to a State, is no longer fit to reflect upon the political challenges of a globalizing world. Instead, I argue in favor of the ‘diversity of identities’ as a ‘political heuristic’ that offers an alternative frame to the question about who is the subject of justice.
Our current understanding of the political and social action lacks of something: the concept of a citizen that we inherit from Modernity—the citizen as the subject of ...
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