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Critical reflections about plural law, Western constructions of human rights, and occupational justice: From Indigenous and African cosmovisions

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Pages 47-58 | Received 30 Dec 2022, Accepted 27 Jun 2023, Published online: 10 Aug 2023
 

ABSTRACT

Importance:

This is a provocative, interactive dialogue calling for expansion and enrichment of the concept of occupational justice beyond its first publication in 2000. It is necessary to refine the concept beyond its roots in Western contexts, bringing it into dialogue with ideas of plural law to think about human rights and occupational justice from different experiences such as African and Indigenous.

Objective:

This study aims to discuss the applicability and representativeness of occupational justice terminology in different contexts.

Theoretical and epistemic research:

This theoretical and epistemic research presents a critical reflection about decolonizing everyday practices by building occupational justice comprehension based on organic and plural circular rights and justice.

Findings:

Human rights are not universal in their applicability; rather, they are specific to Western culture. Concepts of occupational justice based on human rights have not questioned this logic, therefore, universalizing these precepts of occupational justice is a new form of epistemic and cognitive colonization of the discipline. Reflecting on the plural construction of occupational rights and justice based on Indigenous and African cosmovisions points us to paths of the right to life in its diversity. The idea is to build everyday organic justice open to various rationalities and to multiple ways of existing, feeling, and doing.

Conclusions and relevance:

In order to decolonize, it is necessary to uncover existing ways of life and be open to other inventive possibilities of everyday life, seeking a break with modern rationality. This critical reflection is a pathway to decolonizing everyday practices and actions. It starts building the concept based on organic, circular, and plural rights and justices.

Importancia: Este artículo constituye un diálogo provocador e interactivo que reclama la ampliación y el enriquecimiento del concepto de justicia ocupacional, superando lo que fue publicado por primera vez en 2000. Es necesario precisar dicho concepto más allá de sus raíces en contextos occidentales y ponerlo en diálogo con ideas de derecho plural para pensar los derechos humanos y la justicia ocupacional desde diferentes experiencias, por ejemplo, la africana y la indígena. Objetivo: el presente estudio pretende analizar la aplicabilidad y representatividad de la terminología de justicia ocupacional en diferentes contextos. Investigación teórica y epistémica: esta investigación teórica y epistémica presenta una reflexión crítica sobre la descolonización de las prácticas cotidianas mediante la construcción del entendimiento de la justicia ocupacional basada en derechos y justicia circulares orgánicos y plurales. Hallazgos: los derechos humanos no son universales en su aplicabilidad, son específicos para la cultura occidental. Los conceptos de justicia ocupacional basados en los derechos humanos no han cuestionado esta lógica, lo que hace que universalizar sus preceptos sea una nueva forma de colonización epistémica y cognitiva de la disciplina. La reflexión sobre la construcción plural de los derechos y la justicia ocupacional a partir de cosmovisiones indígenas y africanas muestra caminos del derecho a la vida en su diversidad. Se trata de construir una justicia orgánica cotidiana, abierta a diversas racionalidades y a múltiples formas de existir, sentir y hacer. Conclusiones y pertinencia: para descolonizar es necesario desvelar los modos de vida existentes y abrirse a otras posibilidades inventivas de la vida cotidiana, buscando una ruptura con la racionalidad moderna. Esta reflexión crítica constituye una vía para descolonizar prácticas y acciones cotidianas. Además, empieza a construir el concepto basado en derechos y justicias orgánicas, circulares y plurales.

意义:这是一种挑衅性的互动对话,呼吁扩展和丰富生活活动正义的概念,使其超越 2000 年首次提出时的概念。有必要在西方背景中的初始概念之外来完善这一概念,使其与多元法思想进行对话, 从非洲和原住民等不同经历中思考人权和生活活动正义。 目的:本研究旨在讨论生活活动正义术语在不同背景下的适用性和代表性。 理论和认知研究:这项理论和认知研究通过建立一种基于有机和多元循环权利和正义的生活活动正义理解,提出了对日常实践去殖民化的批判性反思。 研究结果:人权的适用性并不普遍; 相反,它们是西方文化所特有的。 基于人权的生活活动正义概念并没有质疑这一逻辑,因此,将这些生活活动正义规则普遍化是该学科认识论和认知殖民化的一种新形式。对基于土著和非洲宇宙观的生活活动权利和正义的多元建构进行反思,为我们指明了生命权多样性的道路。 我们认为应该建立日常的有机正义,用于各种理性和多种存在、感受和行为方式。 结论和相关性:为了去殖民化,有必要揭示现有的生活方式,并对日常生活的其他创造性可能性持开放态度,寻求与现代理性的决裂。 这种批判性反思是日常实践和行动非殖民化的途径。 它开始构建一种基于有机、循环和多元权利和正义的概念。

Acknowledgements

We honor and thank the Indigenous and African people existing in Brazil for building and sharing organic knowledge. It is an important contribution to improving decolonial debate and building different epistemologies. This diversity of people points us to different world views that are part of their and our ways of existing.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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