Getting to justice is not just a normative project of imagining a better world—that is the stuff of mainstream political theory. Yes, we should imagine that better world, but realizing it means also understanding the making of the world we live in, a world of permanent minorities, reproduced through the politicization of identity under the structure of the nation-state. Unmaking the permanence of political identities begins with the recognition that they are not natural and are not forever.
