BOOK: Paolo AMOROSA, Ville ERKILLä & Karolina STENLUND (eds.), Times of Global Injustice. Temporalities of Power and Community Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries [Routledge Studies in Law, Rights and Justice] (London: Routledge, 2026), 388 p. ISBN 9781032873770, € 190

 

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Abstract:

Time is an essential dimension of our shared understandings of the historical significance or fairness of a particular event or situation. The ways time is constructed, however, are characterised by a plurality of diverse and sometimes inconsistent representations. This book examines the uses of different conceptualizations of time in explaining injustice and justice in society from an interdisciplinary perspective.  It is the temporal representations that are the focus of this book here: how and by whom are they constructed, how do they weave together or fray in the process of working through temporary or permanent injustices, and what spaces are made or quashed for different understandings of time? The volume gathers scholars from different backgrounds with expertise from law, history, politics and international relations, philosophy, and sociology to examine the temporality of (in)justice in society. The chapters of the book are integrated around a coherent central theme: the unavoidable intertwining of time and justice. As well as addressing the lived processes of collectively coming to terms with temporal experiences and justice, the book work also discusses the different disciplinary ways of making sense of such processes and the strengths and pitfalls of each approach. The collection will be of interest to researchers and students of legal theory, international relations, global history, memory studies, and political philosophy.

Table of contents:

1.Introduction. Times of Global (In)justice.
Paolo Amorosa, Ville Erkkilä, Karolina Stenlund

Part I: Offcial Time

2. Why Do People Move? Governing the Time and Space of Climate Migration.
Usha Natarajan

3. Yesterday’s tomorrows and today’s: Future-making in Swedish permit-granting procedure
Agnes Hellner 

4. As If a Foreign Country: Evidence Law and Settler Colonial Sovereignty.
Genevieve Renard Painter

5. State redress for involuntary sterilisation in Sweden.
Malin Arvidsson

6. Urgency and Exceptional Time: The State of Emergency as an institution of official time.
Tuukka Brunila

Part II: Emancipatory Time 

7. How to Overcome an Unjust Past? Conflicts of Historicities in the Contemporary World.
Marek Tamm & Zoltán Boldizsár Simon

8. Urgency! At the European Court of Human Rights: Hope, Haste and Climate Justice.
Zoë Jay

9. Existential time and climate in/justice at the end of the world.
Andrew R. Hom

10.Law, Time, and Tradition.
Sebastián Machado

11.Stitching as reparation: expanding narrations of the past and imagining the future.
Helena Alviar García & Laura Betancur Restrepo

Part III: Everyday Time

12.Authoritarian Regimes and the ’Everyday Time.’ The trial of Greta Wolff.
Ville Erkkilä

13. Times of Hermeneutical Injustice: Memory Struggle in the Public Discussion around the Attack on the Elias Lönnrot Monument.
Ulla Savolainen

14. Rehearsing the Future Through Design.
Sara Duell

15. The Shape of Time to Come: The History of the Future in Teleological legal reasoning.
Karolina Stenlund

16. Conclusions: Just(ice) in Time

Bo Stråth

 On the editors:

Paolo Amorosa is University Lecturer of International Law at the Law Faculty, University of Helsinki, Finland. Ville Erkkilä is an Academy Research Fellow at the Centre for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. Karolina Stenlund is a university researcher and team leader at the Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity, and the European Narratives (EuroStorie), based at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

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