Toward a New Legal Common Sense

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa

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“…This includes Gandhi, favela dwellers in Rio, indigenous movements in the Andes and the Amazon, as well as a cooperative movement in Portugal (Barcouco) and mixed elements from the women’s movement in Latin America. Many of these connections build on Santos’s previous research (1995, 2002, 2006).…”

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Puzzlement of a déjà vu: Illuminaries of the global South

Puwar

2019

The Sociological Review

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The act of decentring established Euro-North American sites and flows of knowledge as longstanding geopolitical anchors of epistemological authority presents déjà vu scenarios, involved in centre-staging processes. The very position of being a messenger from the ‘North’ of knowledge and theory from the ‘South’ can reproduce the same patterns the undertaking seeks to unsettle. The context in which academic performativity is shaped is integral to both the making and taking of space in intellectual circuits of production and circulation. This article considers how centre-staging in academia performatively involves particular features. As a case in point, the focus is on the centre-staging of Boaventura de Sousa Santos (epistemology of the South) and Raewyn Connell (Southern Theory), who have become globally known for insisting on bringing knowledge from the South to the North. The wider ecology of the global circuits of academia, as well as their own performative dramaturgy, constitutes points of observation. A self-enterprising ownership of big global conceptual programmes places them high in the decentring of knowledge. There is a leap frogging over former stocks of published academic knowledge, as well as a centre-staging of knowledge projects, whereby it is they who become the flag bearers of this enterprise. Within this process it is important to recognise who is illuminated. Bibliographic tracks become traced over, in the very ways in which fields are mapped in order to produce a point of intervention.

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confidence: 81%

Puzzlement of a déjà vu: Illuminaries of the global South

Puwar

2019

The Sociological Review

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“…As a strategic measure for both political action and scholarly action‐research, CLE neither replaces nor invalidates a broader scholarly critique of law as a hegemonic tool of neoliberal capitalism. Instead, it deliberately combines anti‐systemic political struggle with intra‐systemic legal struggle, acknowledging that neoliberalism has put us into the paradoxical position of “having to struggle both for deep social transformation and for the status quo” (de Sousa Santos, 2002, p. 470).…”

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Trespassing on the Law: Critical legal engineering as a strategy for action research

Kusiak

2021

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This paper proposes critical legal engineering (CLE) as a new methodology for legal‐geographic action research. While legal geography is on the rise, geographers rarely participate in legal or judicial process, and when they do – for example, as court expert witnesses – they merely respond to the pre‐established agendas of the legal system. I argue that legal geographers’ knowledge on the nature of law and its relations with society is a source of power that could allow them to set legal agendas and pluralise legal discussions. CLE assumes that legal geographers can put forward technical legal arguments, thus using law’s own tools to implement normative agendas implied in critical research. However, CLE demands a dialectical attitude that preserves the contradiction between political ends and legal technology – while pursuing both of them at the same time. As I show, CLE can realise critical agendas in three ways. First, it co‐opts the legitimacy provided by the legal system, lending it to the agendas that are otherwise perceived as “too radical.” Second, elevated by the law these radical agendas may gain greater power to influence political‐economic realities even before the legal outcomes are decided. Finally, CLE draws out of “technical” legal discussions into the heat of the public debate, thus politicising the law. Having developed this methodological proposition in the course of my research on urban movements, I illustrate it with the strategy of Berlin's campaign Deutsche Wohnen & Co. Enteignen (DWE), which has crafted a legal argumentation based on Article 15 of the German Constitution to pursue re‐municipalisation (or de‐privatisation) of housing.

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“…Debido a lo anterior, el siguiente escrito tiene la premisa que no hay democracia sin participación y que esta no es posible sin condiciones que la permitan (Sousa-Santos, 2002), por lo que se tratará de dar respuesta a la pregunta ¿Qué hace falta en Colombia para la activación de la participación ciudadana activa, en el fortalecimiento del Estado y la Democracia en Colombia?, para ello se aborda la participación ciudadana, la relación participación ciudadana y democracia, la participación ciudadana en Colombia antes y después de la constitución de 1991, los retos para el fortalecimiento del Estado y la Democracia en Colombia, y finalmente, se expone la línea de fuga que presenta la participación ciudadana a través de las resistencias estético-performativas y la generación del sensorium común.…”

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El estado y la democracia en Colombia y su relación con lo común

Arias

2021

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Con el objetivo de determinar que le hace falta en Colombia para la activación de la participación ciudadana en el fortalecimiento del Estado y la democracia, se realiza una conceptualización de la participación ciudadana, la relación participación ciudadana y democracia, las tensiones de esta participación antes y después de la constitución de 1991, y los principales retos y desafíos de la Ley-1757-del-2015 para el fortalecimiento del Estado y la democracia. Finalmente se expone las resistencias estético-performativas como una línea de fuga que presenta la participación social. Los resultados indican que la democracia participativa no ha sido un sustituto completo de la democracia representativa ya que ha sido instrumentalizada por gobiernos de turno con influencia de los medios de comunicación. Lo anterior hace necesario el desarrollo participativo a través de una política y planificación de la cultura que apunte a la pedagogía de la comunicación y convicción que fomente la solución de problemas relacionados con la construcción de lo común a través de la participación política en la vida cotidiana. Se concluye que la participación ciudadana a través de resistencias estético-performativas, sitúa lo estético como una dimensión democrática del sensorium-común de un organismo que tiene una determinación ontológica y una tarea democrática y de democratización.

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Toward a New Legal Common Sense

Cited by 76 publications

References 226 publications

Puzzlement of a déjà vu: Illuminaries of the global South

Puzzlement of a déjà vu: Illuminaries of the global South

Trespassing on the Law: Critical legal engineering as a strategy for action research

El estado y la democracia en Colombia y su relación con lo común

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