The Ends of Injury?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2026
To conclude, I turn to Tessa, a test veteran widow, and her uneasy reflections on the claim-making process. Recognizing the double-edged nature of seeking justice, its enlivening and injurious potential, she asks that we take seriously the enduring challenges of injury claims, that we continue to interrogate how and why contemporary institutions turn justice making into pathways for ongoing harm. An exploration of the injurious nature of law is, I argue, crucial for understanding both the political origins of injury, and possible meaningful political responses to injury. This in turn reveals the necessity of reimagining injury in ways that can account for the historical, political, social, and institutional harms that accrue from our very systems of redress. That nuclear injuries have proven so difficult to respond to without enacting further harm must inform our current approaches to nuclear risk and disarmament, and necessitates a reimagining of injury law. Such a reckoning offers us possibilities to prioritize new modes of collective responsibility, care, and justice in the aftermath of radiation exposure and other invisible environmental harms.
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