Court in Between: The Spaces of Relational Justice in Papua New Guinea
Court in Between: The Spaces of Relational Justice in Papua New Guinea
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法院之间：巴布亚新几内亚的关系正义空间
DOI：
10.1080/13200968.2016.1191118
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发表时间：
2016
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0.5
通讯作者：
Demian M
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作者：
Demian M
本文认为，地方层面的争议在巴布亚新几内亚发挥两种理论：空间正义，借用从“地理”转向法律的理论，关系正义，从法律人类学。通过该国乡村法庭系统谈判解决的争端有时被大都市人描述为提供和平而不是正义的机构。我认为，通过比较当代和历史的例子，从当地的争议过程中，村法院行使司法的一种形式，但它不是一个正义的关闭或和平。相反，它是开放争议当事方之间关系空间的正义，作为承认这种关系的持续潜力的一种技术。
This article considers local-level disputing in Papua New Guinea by bringing two theories into play: spatial justice, borrowed from the ‘geographical’ turn in legal theory, and relational justice, from the anthropology of law. Disputes negotiated by means of the country’s village courts system are sometimes characterised by metropolitans as institutions that dispense peace instead of justice. I argue, through a comparison of contemporary and historical examples from local disputing processes, that village courts do exercise a form of justice, but it is not a justice of closure or peace. Rather, it is the justice of opening the space of relations between disputing parties, as a technique of recognising the ongoing potential of such relations.