Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Recurso digital |
| Language: | |
| Published: |
Zenodo
2026
|
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20114737 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1866901817812582400 |
|---|---|
| author | Sode, Keita |
| author_facet | Sode, Keita |
| contents | <p><span>Institutions do not only make mistakes; they also decide who must live with the consequences of their limits. This article asks how structural injustice is lived when rules, categories, records, thresholds, and vocabularies fail to carry the lives they govern. I argue that one recurring mechanism is displaced practical work: people are made to explain, prove, wait, translate, adjust, coordinate care, disclose again, or depend on discretion so institutional arrangements can remain workable. I call this displaced work residual burden. The problem is not that every simplification is avoidable, or that justice requires perfect institutional fit. It arises when the costs of simplification are repeatedly pushed onto those with less protected standing. Building on debates about structural injustice, responsibility, classification, vulnerability, care, administrative burden, and recognizability, the article shows why the absence of individual malice does not exhaust responsibility. Once a system remains functional only because some people patch its gaps from below, repair and accountability cannot be displaced by narrowed blame. The article distinguishes unavoidable mismatch from remediable institutional harm and from opacity or nonfit that marginalized subjects may need to preserve. Justice requires tracing where institutional incompleteness travels, who benefits, and how those distributions can be made answerable.</span></p> |
| format | Recurso digital |
| id | zenodo_https___doi_org_10_5281_zenodo_20114737 |
| institution | Zenodo |
| language | |
| publishDate | 2026 |
| publisher | Zenodo |
| record_format | zenodo |
| spellingShingle | Who Bears the Residue?—Residual Burden and Responsibility under Structural Injustice Sode, Keita <p><span>Institutions do not only make mistakes; they also decide who must live with the consequences of their limits. This article asks how structural injustice is lived when rules, categories, records, thresholds, and vocabularies fail to carry the lives they govern. I argue that one recurring mechanism is displaced practical work: people are made to explain, prove, wait, translate, adjust, coordinate care, disclose again, or depend on discretion so institutional arrangements can remain workable. I call this displaced work residual burden. The problem is not that every simplification is avoidable, or that justice requires perfect institutional fit. It arises when the costs of simplification are repeatedly pushed onto those with less protected standing. Building on debates about structural injustice, responsibility, classification, vulnerability, care, administrative burden, and recognizability, the article shows why the absence of individual malice does not exhaust responsibility. Once a system remains functional only because some people patch its gaps from below, repair and accountability cannot be displaced by narrowed blame. The article distinguishes unavoidable mismatch from remediable institutional harm and from opacity or nonfit that marginalized subjects may need to preserve. Justice requires tracing where institutional incompleteness travels, who benefits, and how those distributions can be made answerable.</span></p> |
| title | Who Bears the Residue?—Residual Burden and Responsibility under Structural Injustice |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20114737 |