Histories of Harm: Injustice as Structure, Not Failure
摘要
This chapter reconceptualises injustice as a structural condition embedded in the long histories of caste, slavery, patriarchy, and empire. Drawing on structural history and world-systems approaches, it demonstrates how relations of domination endure across time, shaping political subjectivity, social hierarchies, and the limits of legitimacy itself. Through Ambedkar’s analysis of caste, Robinson’s account of racial capitalism, and feminist critiques of gendered labour, the chapter shows that injustice is not an episodic deviation from an otherwise just order, but a constitutive logic through which modern social and political arrangements are formed and sustained. By shifting the analytic focus from institutional failure to historical architecture, the chapter foregrounds injustice as worldmaking rather than anomalous.