Coordinator: Manuel Toscano (University of Málaga) and Paloma de la Nuez (King Juan Carlos University).

Commentator: Javier Gil (University of Málaga)

In recent decades, political theory and philosophy are developing new approaches to the key concepts of justice and injustice that challenge the traditional view of these issues. The contemporary focus on injustice - much more than the absence of justice - and its consideration also as a political emotion, pose a series of challenges to the dominant Western literature on justice (normative, formal and rational theories) that also open up perspectives more attentive to harm and suffering, as well as to new modalities of oppression, exclusion or discrimination. In this context, many discussions seem to be led by those who feel hurt or offended, so it would be useful to explore the role that emotions such as indignation, anger or resentment play in articulating our conceptions of justice or protests against injustice. These are, in short, new perspectives that affect our understanding of human rights, their application and the redress of their violation. This working group aims to serve as a space for the discussion of a highly relevant and topical issue with obvious practical implications, especially in relation to international human rights tribunals. We also invite proposals on the role that feelings and rights play in the way we denounce injustice or demand justice. Papers within contemporary Political Theory and Political, Moral and Legal Philosophy will be welcome.

Schedule:

Session 7, Session 7
Date: Friday, July 12, 2019
Hour: 09:00 - 10:45
Venue: Room 206

Session 8, Session 8
Date: Friday, July 12, 2019
Hour: 11:00 - 12:45

Venue: Room 206

Session 9, Session 9
Date: Friday, July 12, 2019
Hour: 13:00 - 14:00

Venue: Room 206

Lectures:

• Theoretical and legal contradictions of "living together": two theories of justice and two opposite responses of international human rights law to the same case of cultural and religious diversity.
• Emotions and criminal justice: the case of revisable permanent imprisonment.
• LThe fairness and unfairness of the standards of integral reparation measures dictated by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
• Why do debates on epistemic injustice matter in terms of rights and justice today?
• Reformulating the social contract in times of precariousness: the feelings of the excluded
• The political theory of recognition and human rights. Notes on an exploration for the foundation of human rights and its implications.
• Ideals of justice in discourses on civic education. An approach from the political theory.
• The practice of blaming and feelings of grievance.
• Courage: the virtue of freedom
• Politics, injustice and bad luck
• Ecological justice: harm from a biocentric teleological approach.
• Decentralized justice and normative collision: lessons from legal pluralism.