Abstract
Introduction to a special issue on justice and how the concept might be exploited, with the meaning to take advantage of the concept, or, to use it for one’s own benefit. The specific context for this reflection is the Nordic, historically connected to a conceptual tradition of equality as a reference rather than justice. The Nordic feminist perspectives in legal scholarship have traditionally been successful in advocating and effectuating a feminist perspective of justice both within law and in society. However, thus far, Nordic feminist perspectives of law have at least partially been limited to questions of equality between men and women, as well as in relation to justice confined to the boundaries of the nation state. The articles in this special issue transgress these limitations in various ways. Legal scholarship is also expanded as the exploiting of justice includes other disciplines. Together this multi-disciplinary special issue targets some of today's urgent challenges in a context of increasing inequalities and, at the same time, call for hope and new possibilities to form a just society.
Highlights
The genesis of this special issue was a multi- and interdisciplinary symposium held at the University of Gothenburg in October 2016, with the title Exploiting justice – Processes, Performances and Politics
When asked about justice and what it means, the participants expressed a variety of perceptions and associations
Even though the political system is based on an ideal of participatory democracy and the reliance on democracy is relatively high in Sweden, there are signs of increased polarisation, a school system that provides varying levels of education, utterances on social media silencing certain voices and increased inequalities that create a society in which persons are denied very basic needs, while others have unlimited assets
Summary
The genesis of this special issue was a multi- and interdisciplinary symposium held at the University of Gothenburg in October 2016, with the title Exploiting justice – Processes, Performances and Politics. Even though the political system is based on an ideal of participatory democracy and the reliance on democracy is relatively high in Sweden, there are signs of increased polarisation, a school system that provides varying levels of education, utterances on social media silencing certain voices and increased inequalities that create a society in which persons are denied very basic needs, while others have unlimited assets In this context, justice and democracy depend upon becoming objects of struggle and rethinking (Brown 2015). The concept of equality (and even justice) has primarily been related to material conditions and to redistributive policies (see for example, Long-Term Survey 2003/04, Appendix 8). There is an increasing focus on justice as a concept in a legal context in Scandinavia, for example, as evidenced in publications and as a topic for conferences This is interesting as it was virtually absent and even banned under the influence of Scandinavian legal realism, impacting legal scholarship and politics (Long-Term Survey 2003/04, Appendix 8, 41). Identify themselves or are identified by others as ‘different’ or belonging to a distinct social and/or political group have claimed human rights, they have claimed equal human rights (Lister 2003, 90)
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