Thomson, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-1570-2481 and Goldblatt, B. (2025) Legislating for the future: situated health and embodied justice. International Journal of Law in Context, 21 (1). 22 -40. ISSN 1744-5523
Abstract
In response to the short-term political cycles that govern law-making, there is growing international attention to the obligations owed to future generations. Within the diverse approaches there is often a single, temporally defined inequality; that is, between now and a depleted future. While inequality is imagined between generations, these generations are often constructed as homogenous. This elides not just contemporary inequalities, but that these injustices are caused by historically rooted inequalities that current planetary threats are likely to deepen. In response, we centre health inequalities which illustrate the complex temporalities and structural causes of inequalities. We argue for a focus on eco-social and embodied generations to better understand – and respond to – inequalities past, present and future. We apply this focus to the Capabilities Approach as an example of the work needed to better articulate what is owed to present and future generations to secure justice and inform future-oriented law-making.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2024. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | health inequalities; climate change; future generations; Capabilities Approach; health; embodiment |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2024 13:24 |
Last Modified: | 10 Mar 2025 13:58 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S1744552324000168 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:216491 |
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