Global Europe, Guilty! Contesting EU neoliberal governance for Latin America and the Caribbean

Icaza, Rosalba

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“…7 With the above ideas in mind, I have argued that the PPT's sessions are contributing to epistemic justice through practices that allow for the political visibility of knowledge (and not only of testimonies of violence) that otherwise would have remained ignored or produced as non-existent (Icaza, 2010). This was specifically observed in relation to the Tribunal's sessions on European Multinationals and Neoliberalism and their hearings in Vienna (2006) and Guatemala (2008) in which a number of cases related to communities and peoples of indigenous nations and African descent received a great deal of attention in the Tribunals processes, discussions and rulings.…”

Section: Ppts and The Coloniality Of International Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The PPT are seen as mechanisms and processes with the potential for contributing to epistemic justice in as much as these break down hierarchies and exclusions related to the plurality of understandings about what is supposed to be justice (Icaza, 2010). An emphasis on the contributions of the PPT sessions to epistemic justice would mean then to give attention to the ways in which these contribute to the visibility of the many ways in which justice is understood and experienced, despite the many forms of violence of capitalism and/or state authority.…”

Section: Ppts and The Coloniality Of International Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By attributing responsibility to particular actors with faces or brand names, these mechanisms of popular litigation have contributed to question what feminist political economist Bergeron (2006) theorizes as the dominant script of neo-liberal globalization that is represented as an abstract dominant and unified force/system (Icaza, 2010). This possibility of attribution has been a central aim of the PPT in Mexico given the context of impunity and violence as the following quote from the final ruling document displays: "In this realm of impunity that is today's Mexico, there are murders with no murderers, torture with no torturers, sexual violence with no abusers, in a constant abdication of responsibility, in which it would seem that the thousands and thousands of massacres, murders and systematic violations of the rights of peoples are always isolated acts or marginal situations rather than true crimes for which the State bears responsibility" (TPP Capitulo Mexico, 2014).…”

Section: Introduction: the Permanent People's Tribunals In Mexicomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Following the work of feminist decolonial philosopher and popular educator Lugones (1990Lugones ( , 2003, I have argued elsewhere that the mere act of questioning dominant discourses and scripts on globalization is one of the ways in which the PPT contribute to global cognitive or epistemic justice (Icaza, 2010). In short, cognitive or epistemic justice is mainly understood here as necessary to (Santos et al, 2007) one has to deal with the erasure of knowledge and ways of being in the world, including notions and practices of justice outside the nation state's legality, which have been produced as "backward", "traditional", "other" or "particular" in relation to a supposedly "universal" knowledge (Santos, 2006;Hernandez et al, 2013).…”

Section: Introduction: the Permanent People's Tribunals In Mexicomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…"The mission of the Tribunals is to promote universal and effective respect of fundamental rights of peoples, minorities and individuals; and work for the generation of law that protect those rights" (TPP Capitulo Mexico, 2012a). 4 In so doing, the Tribunals qualify situations in legal terms contributing to the identification of duty and rights holders in relation to situations when these are not apparent like in the case of human rights violations committed by local authorities to protect transnational corporations fiduciaries' interests (Icaza, 2010).…”

Section: Introduction: the Permanent People's Tribunals In Mexicomentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Permanent People’s Tribunals and indigenous people’s struggles in Mexico: between coloniality and epistemic justice?

Icaza¹

2015

Palgrave Commun

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On 21 October 2011, hundreds of Mexican civil society organizations formally submitted a petition to the Lelio e Lisli Basso Foundation in Rome to justify the opening of a Mexican Chapter of the Permanent People’s Tribunals (PPT). The PPT was established in 1979 as the successor to the Russell Tribunals on Vietnam (1966–1967) and on the Latin American Dictatorships (1974–1976). The PPT is considered an ethical non-governmental tribunal and their sessions are described as a mechanism for raising awareness of national and international public opinion on rights violations. This article investigates the potential of the PPT for contributing to epistemic justice in Mexico, by focusing on indigenous people communities’ long-term struggle for legal pluralism and autonomy. In so doing, it offers an analysis about the coloniality of international human rights law operating in non-governmental mechanisms of popular litigation such as the PPT; a perspective that has remained absent in critical international and global studies. In particular, the article argues that the PPT in Mexico is imbricated with Eurocentric modes of legal production but that it nonetheless has the potential to contribute, in a relevant but fragile way, to epistemic justice. On the one hand, it is observed that PPT key documents and statements explaining different forms of violence in Mexico emphasize causal relationships based on the all-encompassing power or logic of capitalism. This perspective, it is argued, has the effect of epistemic erasure: notions and practices of justice that exceed this logic are silenced in the process of legal translation for the construction of “model cases”. On the other hand, the article highlights the coexistence of different notions of justice in one of the PPT thematic hearings on Violence against Corn, food sovereignty and autonomy hold in Oaxaca, Mexico, to argue for a re-thinking of the monocultural state-centric legal frames that ground PPT legal qualification. As the PPT classify social grievances in legal terms through the lens/gaze of international law, this legal qualification works as an activity of “translation”, in some cases of incommensurable notions of justice or absence of justice, violence or well-being. The article concludes with an emphasis on the potential contributions of the PPT to epistemic justice as the political visibility of the many ways in which justice is understood and experienced despite the many forms of violence and oppression in contemporary Mexico.

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Section: Ppts and The Coloniality Of International Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ppts and The Coloniality Of International Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introduction: the Permanent People's Tribunals In Mexicomentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introduction: the Permanent People's Tribunals In Mexicomentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introduction: the Permanent People's Tribunals In Mexicomentioning

confidence: 99%

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