Key Questions About Justice and System Transitions (Williams and Doyon)
Distributive Justice
- Where and how are the costs and benefits of the transition being distributed?
- What scales (e.g., jurisdictional, spatial, and temporal) are used to assess impacts and benefits?
- Are actions reactions to mitigating impacts of events, or proactive planning for future benefits of the transition?
- What is the scope of analysis (e.g., pilot project, social innovation lab, or whole system)?
- Are the human rights of affected peoples being respected?
Procedural Justice
- Who is part of the decision-making process, and in defining “just” and “transition”
- Do all stakeholders have adequate capabilities to participate? If not, what tools or techniques are being implemented to engage a wider set of stakeholders?
- How are individuals’ values and motivations being integrated?
- How are non-human actors engaged in dialogue?
- How are future generations engaged in dialogue?
- What power asymmetries exist within different processes (e.g., financial, political, structural) and how are they addressed?
- What opportunities are there for resistance to dominant political and economic (infra)structures?
- What happens when there are unresolved disputes or asserted violations of human rights?
- How are communities impacted by your research engaged in collaboratively developing research goals?
Recognition Justice
- How is recognition, misrecognition, or non-recognition treated?
- What cultural institutional processes, legacies, or existing inequalities are present (e.g., the role of colonial legacy and relationships with Indigenous peoples)?
- How are minority or marginalized worldviews, knowledges, and values recognized and integrated?
- How are conflicting knowledges and values consolidated or addressed?
- How are multiple overlapping identities (intersectionality) recognized?
- How are costs and benefits identified (i.e., through different worldviews, knowledges and values)?