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Using the theory of the encryption of power, this book explores whether it is possible to decrypt justice as it has been predominantly shaped by Western hegemony. Decrypting Justice argues that envisioning and creating a more just world, founded on new communalities, is not only possible but necessary.
List of contents
Prologue: A Conceptual Framework of the Theory of Encryption of Power by Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo
Decrypting Justice: Form Epistemic Violence to Immanent Democracy. A Brief Presentation of this Book by Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo, Marinella Machado-Araujo, and Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Chapter 1: A Prolific Paradox of Justice and Two Theses on the Encryption of the Hidden People by Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo and Marinella Machado-Araujo
Chapter 2: Let's Dance. On Fantastic Critique by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Chapter 3: Towards a Decolonial Paradigm of Justice by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Chapter 4: The Communal Practice of Quilombismo as a Technique of Decryption: Forms of (R)existence Through the Subversion of Colonial Encryption by Bethania Assy and Rafael Rolo
Chapter 5: The Justice(s) of the O' tan (Corazonar): Tseltal Women's Experiences in the Pursuit of Self-Justice by Laura Edith Saavedra Hernández
Chapter 6: Decryption of Liberal Transitional Justice: Critical Approaches from the Land as Central Problem in the Colombian Case by Michael Monclou-Chaparro, Julián Trujillo-Guerrero, María Daniela Delgado-Álvarez
Chapter 7: Decrypting Power in the Territory. The Case of the Union of Cooperatives Tosepan, Titataniske by María Elena Rojas and Jaime Ortega
Chapter 8: Multiple Layers of Asylum Access in Mexico: An Example of the Encryption of Administrative Justice by Luisa Gabriela Morales-Vega
Conclusions by Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo and Marinella Machado-Araujo
About the Contributors
About the author
Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo is author of
Decolonizing Democracy: Power in a Solid State (2016),
Being and Contingency: Decrypting Heidegger's Terminology (2021), Editor of
Decrypting Power (2018), and of
Ser y Contingencia (2023) and
Teoría Crítica Constitucional (2014).
Marinella Machado-Araujo is professor of the graduate and post-graduation law programs of the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais - PUC Minas-Brazil.
Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni is professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South at the University of Bayreuth in Germany.
