Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: In 'our separate kinds of expertise and experience, we know both too much and too little' writes multispecies feminist theorist Donna Haraway in Staying with the trouble (2016: 4), calling for boundary crossing transdisciplinary work and alliances that will take us both beyond naïve hope or defeatist despair when thinking about our life in a 'vulnerable and a wounded earth' (Haraway, 2016: 10).Haraway says she is not 'interested in reconciliation or restoration' but 'deeply committed to the more modest possibilities of partial recuperation and getting on together.Call that staying with the trouble' (Haraway, 2016: 10).So, let us stay with the trouble!In staying with the trouble, scholarship requires 'passion and action, holding still and moving, anchoring and launching' (Haraway, 2016: 10).Among different boundaries we have crossed and intersections we have anchored and launched together in our engagement with what we have always seen as a dynamic and living restorative justice movement, the environmental one is by far one of the most challenging and exciting ones.In spring 2019, we brought together in an exploratory seminar in Leuven an interdisciplinary, intergenerational and international group of people who were as excited about these new possibilities as we were (see Pali, 2019).John Braithwaite opened the seminar by calling for the mobilisation of the restorative power and the restorative imagination of humankind in service of life on earth (see Braithwaite, Forsyth & Cleland, 2019: 9).Since then, a lot has happened: ideas have been shared, threads have been made, networks have been formed and as this special issue of The International Journal of Restorative Justice will show, written works have been created and are ready to be shared with the restorative justice community.
DOI: 10.5553/tijrj.000065
Authors: Brunilda Pali, Ivo Aertsen
Institutions: University of Amsterdam, KU Leuven
Language: English
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3153549266