Journal article

Authors list: Kreide, Regina

Publication year: 2022

Pages: 107-127

Journal: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Volume number: 25

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 1369-8230

eISSN: 1743-8772

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2020.1859225

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group

Abstract: 
Housing has become a political problem in the vast majority of cities around the world, highlighting obvious injustices. The article pursues the question to what extent the existing human right to housing can be of any interest here. The practice-based approach of Charles Beitz can help against the background of some systematic supplements. A 'negative' approach that distinguishes forms of injustice is an important prerequisite for a substantial use of human rights. The negative approach makes it possible to uncover injustices and shows the obstacles that stand in the way of a practice-based conception of human rights. The practice-based conception is, at the same time, necessary for the social analysis of the obstacles, in order to analyse human rights as well as to be able to justify human rights themselves. The current commodification of housing it is argued impedes the exercise of a practice-based conception of human rights in the way that Charles Beitz has suggested.

Harvard Citation style: Kreide, R. (2022) Global (in)justice and the human right to housing. A practice-based approach, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 25(1), pp. 107-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2020.1859225

APA Citation style: Kreide, R. (2022). Global (in)justice and the human right to housing. A practice-based approach. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 25(1), 107-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2020.1859225