Go-JuST

The map of injustices

Click on a button to navigate

Kinds – types of injustices

Distributive injustices

The injustices that arise from the unequal distribution of benefits and burdens associated with a technological or productive system among the different individuals or social groups involved in it. These injustices have spatial and temporal dimensions and may concern income, access to critical resources, survival opportunities, transformation potential, and environmental burdens, among others.

Recognition injustices

The injustices that arise when policymakers and powerful players in a productive system fail to recognize the needs, priorities, and expectations of the weaker players in that system. This lack of recognition manifests itself as cultural and political dominance by the powerful, accompanied by insults, denigration, and degradation of the weaker. It can also appear as a derogatory and contemptuous distortion and distortion of the views of less powerful players.

Procedural injustices

These are the injustices that arise from the unequal participation of all involved players in a productive system in making decisions about the distribution of its benefits and burdens. These inequalities are made evident by unequal participation in decision-making institutions, fragmented access to information and decision-related knowledge, the absence of local knowledge in decisions, and the inability of weaker players to have their voices heard, even when they are institutionally involved in the decision-making process.

This dimension enters the third stage, co-creation.

Restorative Justice

Restorative justice is concerned with decisions and actions that aim to remove and remedy injustices associated with a productive system. This can take the form of ex post remedial policies and actions or of the ex ante diagnosis of potential injustices associated with a productive system and the negative consequences they may have, in order to make appropriate decisions that will prevent the occurrence of these injustices. Restorative justice forces decision-makers to take into account issues of injustice in the very design of technological and productive systems.