Embedding Justice: New Frameworks of Social and Climate Justice in Contemporary Political Theory

• Grant number: 25/09557-5
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: November 01, 2025
• End date: October 31, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Political Theory
• Principal Investigator: Lucas Cardoso Petroni
• Grantee: Lucas Cardoso Petroni
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Andréia Fressatti Cardoso ; Diana Piroli ; Guilherme Cardoso de Moraes ; Júlio César Casarin Barroso Silva ; Marcos Paulo de Lucca Silveira ; Sebastián Rudas Neyra ; Thor João de Sousa Veras

Abstract

This research project addresses, from the perspective of political theory, some urgent normative challenges posed by extreme economic inequality, climate injustice, and the persistence of social hierarchies, aiming to rearticulate justice beyond conventional distributive paradigms. It advances a framework of embedded justice through three dimensions: (i) social embeddedness, which situates equality in relational structures rather than abstract distributive metrics; (ii) historical embeddedness, which integrates egalitarian thought with the political traditions of democratic socialism, feminism, and Black political theory; and (iii) intergenerational embeddedness, which extends justice across temporal horizons, particularly in the context of climate change and structural historical injustices. As part of the Justice in the XXI Century: A Perspective from Latin America (JUSTLA) consortium, this project contributes to a transnational effort to rethink justice from a Latin American perspective, engaging with both theoretical innovation and the concrete struggles of social movements, thereby forging new connections between normative theory and political agency. (AU)