Full Description
We are living in a world where power abuse has become the new norm, as well as the biggest, silent driver of persistent inequalities, racism and human rights violations. The COVID-19 socio-economic consequences can only be compared with those that followed World War II. As humanity is getting to grips with them, this timely book challenges current thinking, while creating a much needed normative and practical framework for revealing and challenging the power structures that feed our subconscious feelings of despair and defeatism.
Structured around the four concepts of power, race, justice and restorative justice, the book uses empirical new data and normative analysis to reconstruct the way we prevent power abuse and harm at the inter-personal, inter-community and international levels. This book offers new lenses, which allow us to view power, race and justice in a modern reality where communities have been silenced, but through restorative justice are gaining voice. The book is enriched with case studies written by survivors, practitioners and those with direct experiences of power abuse and inequality. Through robust research methodologies, Gavrielides's new monograph reveals new forms of slavery, while creating a new, philosophical framework for restorative punishment through the acknowledgement of pain and the use of catharsis for internal transformation and individual empowerment. This is a powerful and timely book that generates much needed hope.
Through a multi-disciplinary dialogue that uses philosophy and critical theory, social sciences, criminology, law, psychology and human rights, the book opens new avenues for practitioners, researchers and policy makers internationally.
Contents
Foreword: Professor John Braithwaite, Australian National University, Australia
Preface: Kay Pranis, independent trainer and facilitator for peacemaking circles, leader in Restorative Justice and Circle Process movements
PART I: POWER, RACE, JUSTICE & RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CHALLENGED: THE BEGINNING OF AWAKENING
Chapter 1: Challenging the power that racialises us all
Chapter 2: Challenging race: Let's talk about race, when we talk about race
Chapter 3: Challenging justice: The lawful and the fair
Chapter 4: Challenging restorative justice: A painful biopower
PART II: REBALANCING POWER FOR JUSTICE: MERMAIDS AND SIRENS
Chapter 5: Faultlines, mermaids and sirens: Power-interest battles within the restorative justice social movement
Chapter 6: The Trojan horses of race and power
Chapter 7: Power, fear and security: The terrorist within
PART III: RESTORING PEACE: BACK ON TRACK
Chapter 8: The fallacy of one justice and a consensual justice model restrained by human rights
Chapter 9: Restoring power in justice and restorative justice: What parties in conflict really want
Chapter 10: Restorative justice policy and practice: A guide free from power abusePART IV: CASE STUDIES OF POWER AND RESTORATION: POSSIBILITIES IN ACTIONPreamble
Case study no 1: Power and child sexual abuse - England
Case study no 2: Power through bullying - England
Case study no 3: Power through rape - Denmark
Case study no 4: Power through race - USA
Case study no 7: The power of taking life, the power of owning restorative justice- USA
Case study no 8: Four restorative practices in Queensland, Australia
Case study no 9: Parental power and culture
Case study no 10: The "powerful" victim paedophile - USA
Case study 11: Race, gender and power - USA
Case study 12: Power in family relationships - Greece
Case study 13: The power of protecting my turf - Greece
Case study no 14: Power in whiteness - England
Case Study 15: Race, gender and family relationships - USA
Case Study 16: Regaining power through forgiveness - USA
Case Study 17: Power imbalance in juvenile justice delivery: My experience as a prison social worker - Nigeria
Case Study 18: Power and policing - USA
Case Study 19: Power and child sexualisation - Lithuania
Case Study 20: Power imbalance and intimate partner violence - India
Case Study 21: Sun, sea, sex and the new forms of slavery
Case Study 22: Climate change, power abuses and the plight of refugees
Case Study 23: Digital enslavement, online dating apps and abuse
Case study 24: Power Abuse of Queer, Indigenous and Racialized youth in the Global North
Case Study 25: English Nationalism: Deindustrialisation and Powerlessness.
