Community Justice or Reasons for Dissenting

Abstract

The present essay reflects on the problem of community justice as a means of unravelling the ambiguous guiding logics of pacification or subjection. This invites us to re-think the objects and boundaries of what the modern political tradition shows us. I will start by analysing two key
categories, pacification and confinement, which constitute what might be called the paradox which erodes rights. We will then look at time and its role in forming understanding and interpretation of the injustices committed, including those against the individual and his condition. Then I search
to apply the assumption of two parent strands of the ways of linking justice to the different contexts of meaning: the language of conflict and moral questioning of subjects; thus projecting the necessary actions to articulate dissent. I will finish by expounding an idea for a ethical-political project
to create a system of community justice, based on the triple didactic agency of strengthening language, collective invocation of events to coordinate memories, and the legitimisation of different types of knowledge to create cohesiveness. My object is to show that the law, in whatever language it is expressed, always seems to result in a practical machine and a way of thinking suited to the legal mechanisms for the creation of hegemonies and discursive categories, and that in the face of this result it is necessary
to generate counter-hegemonic proposals for the legal system, such as that known as community justice.