Structural Injustice in Contemporary Political Theory: An Introduction

McKeown's book, With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice (Bloomsbury 2024) revisits Iris Marion Young's theory of structural injustice, incorporating critical realism and adding a focus on power dynamics with the aim of clarifying the contours of political responsibility when systemic inequalities are at stake. In this introduction, we first reconsider Young's original idea of structural injustice in light of some important critiques raised by eminent scholars in contemporary political theory. We then present key aspects of McKeown's reformulation of this idea