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Where Ther e is Love, There is Pain. Envisioning Social Justice. Three Configurations of Justice. Recognition Reparations Revitalizations. Justice as Recognition. Acknowledging and Validating Difference Race, Able- bodiedness , Gender, Sexuality, Nationality, Immigration Status
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Where There is Love, There is Pain Envisioning Social Justice
Three Configurations of Justice • Recognition • Reparations • Revitalizations
Justice as Recognition • Acknowledging and Validating Difference • Race, Able-bodiedness, Gender, Sexuality, Nationality, Immigration Status • Full attention to histories of oppression, violence, exclusion, and marginality based upon difference • Genocide, Social Hierarchies, War, Violence, Conquest and Imperialism, including Cultural Imperialism • Full attention to the present-day remnants and impacts of oppression • Differences in social and economic status, wealth, access to positions of power and privilege in institutions of everyday life.
Justice as Recognition (cont) • Valuing different understandings of identity and community • Acknowledging the different roles that indigenous cultures/spiritiual worldviews play in current day descendants of oppressed groups • Acknowledging and respecting the need for oppressed groups to establish sites of healing and resistance that exclude privileged members of society • Third cultures: Acknowledging the complex relationships that people have to “America” and American exceptionalism
Justice as Reparations • Finding ways to repair hurts from past injustices, atrocities, and exploitations • Disidentifying with harmful ideologies • Actively betraying structures of power and privilege that position you as beneficiary of harmful ideologies • Acknowledging that reparation requires “giving up” unearned power, privilege, access, resources, capital, and space
Justice as Revitalization • Actively building and creating coalitions meant to challenge injustice • Allowing the most disenfranchised/powerless groups to establish the tone and agenda of social justice organizations • Actively deconstructing binaries that separate the spiritual from discussion and practices of social justice and ethics. • Creating spaces for storytelling, conversation, song, and creative expression that critique status quo ideologies--homeplaces