Mirroring Truths
How Liberal Democracies Are Challenging Their Foundational Narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5935302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carles Fernandez-Torne (0000-0003-2962-9438, Universitat Ramon Llull, corresponding author), Graeme Young (0000-0002-4003-5895, University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 438 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci12080438 |
| OpenAlex | W4385490832 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
Long-established liberal democracies with histories of settler colonialism-from the United States and Canada to Australia and Scandinavia-are beginning to explore their histories of violence and dispossession. This, in many ways, is long overdue, but the desire to come to terms with past injustices should not obscure the challenges that still stand in the way of any reasonable effort to do so. We argue that transitional justice can be applied to colonial history in liberal democracies, but there are major conceptual and practical obstacles that need to be overcome if this is to happen in meaningful ways. We explore three of these obstacles here that are particularly significant: the doctrine of intertemporal law, the unequal power balance between the Global North and the Global South, and national identity. If these are to be overcome, it is important to tie historical to present injustices and to incorporate, beyond violations of physical rights, violations of economic and social rights that are particularly relevant for understanding continuities between past and ongoing violations. These rights are commonly neglected even by states that recognize a broad set of liberal rights and have the capacity to ensure that they are realized, and represent a promising avenue for pursuing a truly inclusive, equitable, and universal understanding of justice
Colonialism · Democracy · Doctrine · Eurocentrism · Law and economics · Liberal democracy · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Peace and Human Rights Education · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Eurafrica
Transitional Justice
Unspeakable Truths
Globalists
Towards a Unified Theory of Transitional Justice
The Law and Collective Memory of Colonialism
Emancipating Transitional Justice from the Bonds of the Paradigmatic Transition
Trying Just Enough or Promising Too Much? The Problem-Capacity-Nexus in Tunisia’s Transitional Justice Process
Foregrounding Socioeconomic Rights in Transitional Justice
Colonialism, Redress and Transitional Justice
EU Memory Politics and Europe’s Forgotten Colonial Past
Transitional Justice as Global Project
Racial Justice as Transitional Justice
Beyond the (Post)Colonial
Violence, Peace, and Peace Research
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |