Decrypting Justice - (Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and Through the Global South) (Hardcover)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"We know injustice when we encounter it, but we don't know where justice lies. The theory of justice, as old as the Old Testament and Plato and as new as the latest "Infinite Justice" of unjust wars and conquest, has failed to give an epistemic or political model for creating more just worlds. This is the paradox Decrypting Justice explores. How can we begin to discuss justice when the legal and social presuppositions for our conversation are unjust? This collection develops the novel concepts of encryption/decryption as supplement to the critique of ideology, to deconstruction and demystification. Exploring the inclusive exclusion that the encryption of power, people and constitution begets through a number of illuminating case-studies, the book presents the living experiences of people in resistance in the global south. Through collective imagination and the solidarity of being together with others and the world they answer the paradox of justice in their everyday practices." -- Costas Douzinas, University of London

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.