Time is an essential dimension of our shared understandings of the historical significance or fairness of a particular event or situation. This book examines the uses of different conceptualizations of time in explaining injustice and justice in society from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Time is an essential dimension of our shared understandings of the historical significance or fairness of a particular event or situation. The ways time is constructed, however, are characterised by a plurality of diverse and sometimes inconsistent representations. This book examines the uses of different conceptualizations of time in explaining injustice and justice in society from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is the temporal representations that are the focus of this book here: how and by whom are they constructed, how do they weave together or fray in the process of working through temporary or permanent injustices, and what spaces are made or quashed for different understandings of time? The volume gathers scholars from different backgrounds with expertise from law, history, politics and international relations, philosophy, and sociology to examine the temporality of (in)justice in society. The chapters of the book are integrated around a coherent central theme: the unavoidable intertwining of time and justice. As well as addressing the lived processes of collectively coming to terms with temporal experiences and justice, the book work also discusses the different disciplinary ways of making sense of such processes and the strengths and pitfalls of each approach. The collection will be of interest to researchers and students of legal theory, international relations, global history, memory studies, and political philosophy.
1. Introduction:Times of Global (In)justice, Paolo Amorosa, Ville
Erkkilä, Karolina Stenlund; Part I:Official Time;
2. Why Do People Move?
Governing the Time and Space of Climate Migration, Usha Natarajan;
3.
Yesterday's tomorrows and today's: Future-making in Swedish permit-granting
procedure, Agnes Hellner;
4. As If a Foreign Country: Evidence Law and
Settler Colonial Sovereignty, Genevieve Renard Painter;
5. State redress for
involuntary sterilisation in Sweden, Malin Arvidsson;
6. Urgency and
Exceptional Time: The State of Emergency as an institution of official time,
Tuukka Brunila; Part II: Emancipatory Time;
7. How to Overcome an Unjust
Past? Conflicts of Historicities in the Contemporary World, Marek Tamm &
Zoltán Boldizsár Simon;
8. Urgency! At the European Court of Human Rights:
Hope, Haste and Climate Justice, Zoë Jay;
9. Existential time and climate
in/justice at the end of the world, Andrew R. Hom;
10. Law, Time, and
Tradition, Sebastián Machado;
11. Stitching as reparation: expanding
narrations of the past and imagining the future, Helena Alviar García & Laura
Betancur Restrepo; Part III: Everyday Time;
12. Authoritarian Regimes and the
'Everyday Time.' The trial of Greta Wolff, Ville Erkkilä;
13. Hermeneutical
Injustice and Memory Struggle: Temporalities in the Public Discussion around
the Attack on the Elias Lönnrot Monument, Ulla Savolainen;
14. Rehearsing the
Future Through Design, Sara Duell;
15. The Shape of Time to Come: The History
of the Future in Teleological legal reasoning, Karolina Stenlund;
16.
Conclusions: Just(ice) in Time, Bo Stråth
Paolo Amorosa is a University Lecturer of International Law at the Law Faculty, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Ville Erkkilä is an Academy Research Fellow at the Center for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Karolina Stenlund is a University Researcher and Team Leader at the Research Council of Finlands Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity, and the European Narratives (EuroStorie), based at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
