Editors' introduction

Although the theme of justice has occupied a high ground in philosophical discussions since the beginning of political philosophy, in terms of democracy and popular politics, its exact meaning and implications have been nebulous, in part because justice, in reality, is a meeting ground of many ideas, situations, concepts, expectations, mechanisms, and practices. Many things intersect to form the context of social justice: ethical ideas of the people, laws, the evolving nature of claims, the pattern of collective claim-making politics, institutional issues relating to the delivery mechanisms of justice, ideas about rights and entitlements, ideas among the citizens about the responsibility of the rulers, and many situations generating countless conditions of justice. All these contribute to the social context, form, and site of justice.