A Time for Justice: Restorative Justice, Temporality, and Hospitality

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Abstract

This paper explores the entanglement of the coloniality of time, justice, and emancipatory horizons by analyzing the implementation of restorative justice in public schools. The author utilizes Jacques Derrida’s theory of hospitality in order to demonstrate how restorative justice, as a third spacetime of impossible choices, makes decolonial possibilities visible. The author draws upon theoretical analysis in order to deconstruct white-dominant, colonial notions of time as they manifest in schools and to reflect upon how restorative justice’s orientation towards relational, fluid temporalities offers a means through which the onto-epistemological assumptions that underlie oppressive systems in schooling can be questioned and transformed. A restorative justice approach grounded in hospitality, this paper argues, offers a way through colonialist temporalities.

Author

• Daniel Thalkar, University of San Diego