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Decrypting Justice: From Epistemic Violence to Immanent Democracy

Decrypting Justice: From Epistemic Violence to Immanent Democracy

Hardcover

Series: Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and Through the Global South

PhilosophyGeneral LawGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1666961159
ISBN13: 9781666961157
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Feb 26 2025
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book deploys the theory of encryption of to decrypt justice, setting in opposition Justice, written with the hegemonic capital letters of Western ideas, and justice, in its everyday workings within disparate communal forms and the exercise of multiplicity.
As it decrypts justice, the book argues that late-coloniality, through its construction of the hidden people, shattered the possibility of true communities in the service of a transcendent model, consisting ofthe market, the constitution, the nation, and the economy. The first three chapters serve as the theoretical backbone of the book, engaging sovereignty, posthumanism, Artificial Intelligence, and epistemic injustice. Chapters 4 and 5 describe the emancipation of the people through alternate communal practices: Quilombismo in Brazil and Corazonar of Tseltal women in Mexico. Chapter 7 examines the Tosepan's practices in Mexico to decrypt hegemonic territorial forms, and chapters 6 and 8 explore how Western judicial systems disempower the people, focusing on Central American migrants and critiques from the Colombian peace process.

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