Dignity Takings and Dignity Restoration
Creating a New Theoretical Framework for Understanding Involuntary Property Loss and the Remedies Required
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12177707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernadette Atuahene (0000-0002-4915-791X, Illinois Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 04 |
| Pages | 796-823 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Social Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0897-6546 • E-ISSN: 1747-4469 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lsi.12249 |
| OpenAlex | W2520860509 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 16 |
In We Want What's Ours: Learning from South Africa's Land Restitution Program , I introduced the concept of “dignity takings,” which I defined as property confiscation that involves the dehumanization or infantilization of the dispossessed. I argued that the appropriate remedy for a dignity taking is “dignity restoration”: material compensation to dispossessed populations through processes that affirm their humanity and reinforce their agency. For this symposium, contributors were invited to examine these paired concepts through case studies beyond the South African context. This introductory essay summarizes the central arguments of We Want What's Ours and considers how the symposium contributions confirm, extend, or revise the concepts of dignity takings and dignity restoration
Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Dehumanization · Dignity · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanity · Law and economics · Political science · Property (philosophy · Restitution · Social science · Sociology · History · Land Rights and Reforms · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · Philosophy · Property Rights and Legal Doctrine
Processos de restauração de dignidade
Examining the consequences of dehumanization and adultification in justification of police use of force against Black girls and boys
Seven Types of Meaning and Seven Attributes
A Critical Race Theory Perspective on Assaultive Speech in U.S. Campus Communities
Public Vulnerability to the Police
Community Perceptions of Fair Compensation in Land Expropriation
Social media suspensions as dignity takings
Entre infâncias e juventudes
Political Divide, Weak Property Rights, and Infrastructure Provision
Aging, housing markets and social inclusion
My land is worth a million dollars’
Beyond “To Return or Not To Return” – The Benin Bronzes as a Game Changer
They Stole All My Shit”
Spatial politics of dignity
Dignity in urban geography
For a spatial politics of dignity
Collective Memories and Community Interventions
Governing the Belongings of the Precariously Housed
The role of civil servants in the dignification of victims in Meta, Colombia
Safe in segregation? Prison officers' perceptions of safety in solitary confinement
Competitive Governance and Displacement Decisions Under Rebel Rule
Civil Lawfare
Dignity Discourses in Struggles for Basic Legal Freedoms in China
Housing as a determinant of health equity
"Closeted" cause lawyering in authoritarian Cambodia
Takings as a Sociolegal Concept
The Racial Contract
The Sexual Contract
Dignity as (Self-)Determination
Racially Restrictive Covenants—Were They Dignity Takings
Coverture and Dignity
Resisting Dignity Takings in China
When More than Property Is Lost
Restorative Justice
Takings
Housing and property issues for refugees and internally displaced persons in the context of return
Two Rounds of Postwar Restitution and Dignity Restoration in the Netherlands and France
Collecting on Moral Debts
Paying for the Past
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2.78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |