WHO COUNTS? DILEMMAS OF JUSTICE IN A POSTWESTPHALIAN WORLD

Abstract

In this essay, the author tries to present an alternative model to Westphalian  political imaginary,  which acknowledges  “abnormal justice” as the horizon within which all struggles against injustice must currently proceed. She offer a constructive proposal for dealing with conflicts over the “who” in the current conditions of abnormal justice. The concept of misframing validates disputations of the Westphalian frame and enables us to entertain the possibility  that first-order  questions  of justice have been unjustly  framed. Thus, it opens space  for non-hegemonic  understandings  of the “who.” At the same  time, by submitting proposed frames to the all-subjected principle, this approach offers a way of assessing the justice of rival “who’s” and it enables us to weigh their relative merits.