Global Civil Society 2011: Globality and the Absence of Justice (Global Civil Society Yearbook)

Global Civil Society 2011 combines activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles to promote, negotiate and deliver justice in a global frame without a central authority. In their engagement with cultural diversity and their networked communication the contributors rethink and remake justice beyond the confines of the nation state. Cover 1 Half-Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 LIST OF MAPS, BOXES, FIGURES AND TABLES 9 CONTRIBUTORS 10 INTRODUCTION: GLOBALITY AND THE ABSENCE OF JUSTICE 17 PART I: FORGIVE AND FORGET? COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND THE QUEST FOR JUSTICE 26 Introduction 27 1 Seeking Justice, Honour and Dignity: Movement for the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery 29 2 Addressing Injustice through State, Local Culture and Global Civil Society: The White Terror Incidents in Taiwan 44 3 Reconciliation and Transitional Justice: The Contribution of Forgiveness Towards Healing and Restoration 52 4 Historians and Conflict Resolution: The Challenge of Advocacy to Scholarship 62 PART II: NETWORKING FOR GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY 74 Introduction 75 5 Anti-Slavery and the Redefining of Justice 77 6 Pathways Towards Tax Justice 90 7 Transnational Networks of ‘Self-Representation’: An Alternative Form of Struggle for Global Justice 100 PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE 114 Introduction 115 8 Community-Based Environmental Governance and Local Justice 119 9 The Global Climate Justice Movement 131 10 Food Sovereignty and Food Politics in South Korea 138 PART IV: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 143 Introduction 144 11 A Plural Approach to the Definition of Social Justice 148 12 Transitional Justice in Sierra Leone 161 Case Study 1: Community-Based Justice and Reconciliation 161 Case Study 2: Seeing Justice Done: Outreach and Civil Society at the Special Court for Sierra Leone 166 13 Global Civil Society and Transitional Justice 170 PART V: STATE, NATION AND GLOBAL JUSTICE 186 Introduction 187 14 Japan’s Article 9 Renunciation of War as a Model Towards Justice and a Global Civil Society of Peace 189 15 Delivering Social Justice for North Korean Refugees in South Korea: Global and Local Spheres of Civil Society 202 16 The Bottom-up Pursuit of Justice: The Case of Two Burmas 117 17 State, Civil Society and Justice: The Case of India 227 References 238 Index 239 Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction: Globality and the Absence of Justice....Pages 1-9 Front Matter....Pages 11-13 Seeking Justice, Honour and Dignity: Movement for the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery....Pages 14-28 Addressing Injustice through State, Local Culture and Global Civil Society: The White Terror Incidents in Taiwan....Pages 30-37 Reconciliation and Transitional Justice: The Contribution of Forgiveness Towards Healing and Restoration....Pages 38-47 Historians and Conflict Resolution: The Challenge of Advocacy to Scholarship....Pages 48-59 Front Matter....Pages 61-63 Anti-Slavery and the Redefining of Justice....Pages 64-76 Pathways Towards Tax Justice....Pages 78-87 Transnational Networks of ‘ Self-Representation’: An Alternative Form of Struggle for Global Justice....Pages 88-101 Front Matter....Pages 103-107 Community-Based Environmental Governance and Local Justice....Pages 108-119 The Global Climate Justice Movement....Pages 120-126 Food Sovereignty and Food Politics in South Korea....Pages 128-132 Front Matter....Pages 133-137 A Plural Approach to the Definition of Social Justice....Pages 138-150 Transitional Justice in Sierra Leone....Pages 152-160 Global Civil Society and Transitional Justice....Pages 162-177 Front Matter....Pages 179-181 Japan’s Article 9 Renunciation of War as a Model Towards Justice and a Global Civil Society of Peace....Pages 182-194 Delivering Social Justice for North Korean Refugees in South Korea: Global and Local Spheres of Civil Society....Pages 196-205 The Bottom-up Pursuit of Justice: The Case of Two Burmas....Pages 206-220 State, Civil Society and Justice: The Case of India....Pages 222-233 Back Matter....Pages 234-240 Inspired by the globality of justice concerns in the 21st century, Global Civil Society 2011 focuses on how civil society actors around the world are framing, contesting and promoting ideas about justice, as well as their strategies to tackle the myriad injustices people face. It identifies an important shift in the globalisation of concerns about justice -- citizens may claim benefits from the nation state, but increasingly groups interacting globally are collectivizing a sense of injustice. In this way global civil society has created and expanded new spaces to reinstall justice as inspiration and arbiter of laws. Combining activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles, this yearbook provides critical insight into how civil society is remaking justice in a global arena, beyond the confines of the nation state. -- Publisher description Inspired by the globality of justice concerns in the 21st century, Global Civil Society 2011 focuses on how civil society actors around the world are framing, contesting and promoting ideas about justice, as well as their strategies to tackle the myriad injustices people face. It identifies an important shift in the globalisation of concerns about justice 6 citizens may claim benefits from the nation state, but increasingly groups interacting globally are collectivizing a sense of injustice. In this way global civil society has created and expanded new spaces to reinstall justice as inspiration and arbiter of laws. Combining activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles, this yearbook provides critical insight into how civil society is remaking justice in a global arena, beyond the confines of the nation state