Table of Contents

1. The theory and politics of solidarity and public goods

Avigail Ferdman and Margaret (Peggy) Kohn

2. Solidarity as environmental justice in brownfields remediation

Avery Kolers

3. Why should we care about competition?

Waheed Hussain

4. Racial structural solidarity

Mara Marin

5. What undermines solidarity? Four approaches and their implications for contemporary political theory

Charles H. T. Lesch

6. Solidarity and social rights

Margaret Kohn

7. Justice as a claim to (social) property

Rutger Claassen

8. Engaging the reluctant taxpayer

Michael Joel Kessler

9. Why the intrinsic value of public goods matters

Avigail Ferdman

About the Author

Avigail Ferdman is Environmental Policy Fellow at the Israel National Economic Council where she works on climate change policy. She focuses on the philosophical and social conditions for meaningful human lives. Her work on human well-being, disruptive technologies, public goods and active mobility has been published in philosophy and planning journals.

Margaret Kohn is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her primary research interests are the history of political thought, critical theory, social justice and urbanism. She is the author of The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth; Radical Space: Building the House of the People and Brave New Neighborhoods: The Privatization of Public Space.