Political theory has long organised itself around the pursuit of justice. Across its canonical formulations—Rawlsian fairness, cosmopolitan human rights, or capability-based egalitarianism—justice appears as a moral ideal: a standard for evaluating institutions, a horizon of legitimacy, and a normative response to political conflict (Rawls, 1971; Nagel, 2005; Sen, 2009). This orientation reflects a broadly liberal intellectual posture committed to reason, impartiality, and procedural consensus. Yet what such frameworks often leave insufficiently examined is the terrain on which justice is theorised: a world already structured by enduring inequalities, historical domination, and epistemic exclusion.