ABSTRACT
From its emergence in the 1970s, global justice theory has matured into a prominent field in contemporary political philosophy, populating a host of academic publications, department syllabi, and research programmes. This chapter identifies some important and emerging work on decolonial theories of justice that seek to license the everyday agency of non-Western subjects, subaltern campaign agendas, and alternative visions of economy. It is important to be precise here about the link between the abstract nature of analytical political philosophy and the coloniality of global justice theory, particularly since theorizing about politics invariably entails some degree of abstraction about social realities. The imperial power relations that emerged during the age of European empire, and which continue to shape the present global order, should arguably be a central problematic in discussions of the ethics of a global economy.
