Responsibility and Ignorance: On Dismantling Structural Injustice

Hayward, Clarissa Rile

doi:10.1086/688355

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“…It encompasses ignorance about objective facts and social relations, as well as its own motivations. The obstinacy of racial ignorance is rooted in “the psychological investment that privileged people have in maintaining a sense of self as ethical, even as they enjoy systemic unearned advantage” (Hayward 2017, 404). One consequence of this ignorance is that these same groups who bear the greatest moral responsibility for redressing injustice are the least reliable politically for doing so.…”

Section: Aggressive Love and The Paradox Of Civil Disobediencementioning

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“Tough Love”: The Political Theology of Civil Disobedience

Livingston¹

2020

Perspect. polit.

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Love is a key concept in the theory and history of civil disobedience yet it has been purposefully neglected in recent debates in political theory. Through an examination of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s paradoxical notion of “aggressive love,” I offer a critical interpretation of love as a key concept in a vernacular black political theology, and the consequences of love’s displacement by law in liberal theories of civil disobedience. The first section locates the origins of aggressive love in an earlier generation of black theologians who looked to India’s anticolonial struggle to reimagine the dignity of the oppressed as “creative survival.” The second contextualizes King’s early sermons on moral injury and self-respect within this tradition to reinterpret Stride toward Freedom’s account of the dignity-enhancing effects of nonviolent resistance as the triumph of love over fear. The third considers the implications of these arguments for conceptualizing the moral psychology of the white citizen and its consequences for contemporary debates over the ideological uses of Civil Rights history. The call to respond to oppression with aggressive love illustrates the paradoxical character of civil disobedience obscured by legal accounts as well as by criticisms of the very idea of “civil” disobedience. This is the paradox of affirming civility while enacting disobedience in order to bind political confrontation with political pedagogy.

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Section: Aggressive Love and The Paradox Of Civil Disobediencementioning

confidence: 99%

“Tough Love”: The Political Theology of Civil Disobedience

Livingston¹

2020

Perspect. polit.

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“…The conflict in the Forest Register 45 Mesuji uttered a "politic of ignorance" and social exclusion which were carried out through power, regulation, pressure, and legitimacy [5]. Social exclusion itself is a process and a result.…”

Section: Ignorance Social Exclusion and Human Rights Violationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agrarian Conflict, Social Exclusion, and Human Rights Violations in Forest Register 45 Mesuji Lampung

Wahab¹,

Mawardi²,

Rahayu³

2019

Proceedings of the the First International Conference on Islamic Development Studies 2019, ICIDS 2019, 10 September 2019, Banda

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Agrarian conflict in Forest Register 45 Mesuji Lampung which has been going on for a dozen years is a manifestation of contestation on forest area access rights between communities and concession-holding companies. This conflict, in turn, increases not only on the issue of access to forest area management but also the right's ignorance toward citizens who live in the forest area itself. This article raises two issues concerning the dynamics of the politic of ignorance toward citizens in the context of the conflict in Forest Register 45 and the ignorant process that leads to the social exclusion of residents in Forest Regions 45. This article uses a socio-legal approach and the perspectives of Tania Li, Hirsch, and Derek Hall about the power of exclusion. This article concludes that the illegal stigma attributed to farmers who live at the Register 45 forest area becomes the legitimacy of local governments for a politic of ignorance toward citizens' civil and economic and social rights. The politics of ignorance to the fundamental rights of the citizens is done as a series of social exclusion process, which is essentially a violation of human rights.

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“…Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris's (2016) observation that populism is a cultural, not an economic reaction resonates here, for we see a generation that aims to cling on to a form of social dominance that is seemingly under threat by current trajectories of cosmopolitan liberalism. Whether it is mini-publics that can best respond to "epistemologies of ignorance" is worth debating, although arguments have already been made in favour of disruption (Hayward, 2017), or pluralisation of media sources as ways in which epistemologies of ignorance can be counteracted.…”

Section: The Future Of Democratic Deliberationmentioning

confidence: 99%