CALL FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE
Title of the Special Issue: Law and
the Janus-faced Morality of Political Correctness
Concerning the possibility of juridically
relevant responses, is the culture of the so-called political correctness a
significant challenge? Although the affirmative answer seems obvious, the
relevance to be taken in account is not, however, as linear as an approach in
terms of public policies and their legisla- tive prescriptions apparently
justifies. The problem at stake has not only to do with the (more or less
extensively grasped) opportunity to sustain a new branch of Politics of Law,
the distinctive feature of which would be an explicit progressive sensitivity
and responsiveness to the pluralism of margin- alised identities and their
narrative intersections (involving gender, race, sexual orientation,
practical-cultural and geo- political provenience, health, mental and physical
disability, as well as the relation to the colonial past and the status of
victim). The problem concerns also the difficulties which this plurality
(whilst favoring the fragmentation of perspectives, meanings and semantic
values) effectively creates, when we consider Law’s claim for an integrating
context — and with this, the vocation for comparability related to the status
or dig- nity of sui juris. Last but not least, the problem concerns also some
institutionalizing procedures and social effects which the culture of political
correctness has indisputably imposed: the hypertrophy of duties and their
concentration in apparently trivial strongholds (justifying unresolved tensions
be- tween universal and parochial claims), the legitimation of a limitless
responsibility (with public devastating pre-juridical judgements, destroying
lives and careers), the unconditional celebration of differences as a
(paradoxically) ethical homo- genizing reference (if not as an effective
intolerance factor, generating new and subtle forms of censorship).
We can say that the discussion of
this cluster of themes, in their juridical (dogmatic and meta-dogmatic)
systematic implications, is still fundamentally to be done. Favoring a context
open to multiple perspectives, without excluding (ra- ther expecting!) the
intertwining of juridical and non-juridical approaches, the volume which we now
propose - as a first number of the journal Undecidabilities and Law -- aims to
be part of this indispensable reflexive path.
This first issue will be coordinated
by José Manuel Aroso Linhares, Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the
University of Coimbra and Coordinator at the University of Coimbra Institute
for Legal Research.
The articles on the proposed theme,
to be published in the first issue, in 2020/2021, must be submitted until
September 15th, to ulcj@ij.uc.pt.
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