ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that Nancy Fraser fails to bridge the gulf between justice and democracy because her model of metademocracy is built on the 'metanorm' of 'participatory parity'. It suggests secure equality by naturalizing it threatens to sap the very democratic energies that Fraser extols for exposing the exclusionary effects of territoriality. The chapter also argues that Fraser does not succeed in her attempt to seize the new opportunities provided by globalization to reconcile the competing claims of justice and democracy. The political paradox revealed in their condition of superfluousness is that territorial divisions are simultaneously constitutive of political relations and barriers to the universal enjoyment of rights. It is at this formal institutional level that one reaches the fulcrum of Fraser's theory of democratic justice for abnormal times. The chapter attempts to secure equality by naturalizing it threatens to sap the very democratic energies that Fraser extols for exposing the exclusionary effects of territoriality.
