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Title: | The Resilience of Abyssal Exclusions in Our Societies: Toward a Post-Abyssal Law | Authors: | Santos, Boaventura de Sousa | Keywords: | Europe; Post-abyssal law; Critical legal theories; Democracy; Abyssal line; Sociology of law; Dignity | Issue Date: | 2017 | Publisher: | Brill | Serial title, monograph or event: | Tilburg Law Review | Volume: | 22 | Issue: | 1-2 | Place of publication or event: | Leiden | Abstract: | At a time in which we are going through the ruins of two models of social transformation – social revolution and social reformism –, I identify a radical division between metropolitan and colonial social relations. I describe and denounce what I call an ‘abyssal line’ between these two realities. The difference between the two sides is that on the metropolitan side we can claim rights, as we are fully human. Conversely, on the colonial side, exclusion is abyssal, people are sub-human, and therefore have no rights. To denounce this abyssal exclusion, we should learn other types of knowledge that allow us to produce radical diagnoses of our societies. We should become more aware of the diversity of social experience in the world, an experience of untold and repugnantly unjust suffering, but also of neglected creativity and innovation. We should develop a law of common goods, democratic pluralism, interculturality, and dignity. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/44139 | ISSN: | 2211-0046 2211-2596 |
DOI: | 10.1163/22112596-02201011 10.1163/22112596-02201011 |
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Appears in Collections: | I&D CES - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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