Decrypting Justice

From Epistemic Violence to Immanent Democracy

Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo, Marinella Machado-Araujo, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978791428
• Topic: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Subtopic: Diritto internazionale

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.
Edited by Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo, Marinella Machado-Araujo, and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Decrypting Justice: From Epistemic Violence to Immanent Democracy is a transforming force, not only in the way which we understand reality but also in the tools with which we build it.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Prologue: A Conceptual Framework of theTheory of Encryption of Power
• Decrypting Justice
• Chapter 1: A Prolific Paradox of Justice and Two Theses on the Encryption of the Hidden People
• Chapter 2: Let’s Dance (On Fantastic Critique)
• Chapter 3: Toward a Decolonial Paradigm of Justice
• Chapter 4: The Communal Practice of Quilombismo as a Technique of Decryption: Forms of (R)existence through the Subversion of Colonial Encryption
• Chapter 5: The Justice(s) of the O’tan (Corazonar): Tseltal Women’s Experiences in the Pursuit of Self-Justice
• Chapter 6: Decryption of Liberal Transitional Justice: Critical Approaches from the Land as Central Problem in the Colombian Case
• Chapter 7: Decrypting Power in the Territory: The Case of the Union of Cooperatives Tosepan, Titataniske
• Chapter 8: Multiple Layers of Asylum Access in Mexico: An Example of the Encryption of Administrative Justice
• Conclusions
• Index
• About the Contributors