Project description
Empowering marginalised women in legal discourse
In legal settings, women often struggle to make their voices heard and their experiences are frequently marginalised. Historically, the trial scene, pivotal in feminist theory, has excluded women's perspectives. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the RE-RIGHTING project aims to redefine the narrative. By empowering women to engage with legal language and perform retrials from their unique perspectives, the project seeks to challenge the limitations of the legal system and offer new pathways to justice. By examining feminist narrative and performative practices, the project aims to create a comprehensive archive and explore how key legal concepts are redefined.
Objective
The scene of the trial has always been at the core of feminist theories and practices of law, since it has often been identified as the space in which women’s voices and bodies could break into the legal scene in order to claim for justice. The project aims to broaden our gaze of the legal scene adopting a new perspective: those of women who, even if they are not the main legal actors (judges, lawyers, plaintiffs), engage with the language of rights in order to re-tell, re-write or re-stage a trial from their situated position. Their voices do not limit to narrate the event of the trial, but actually perform a retrial with the dual aim of highlighting the failure of the legal language in doing justice, and offering alternative possibilities to regenerate and re-signify it. From Arendt’s pioneering “report” on the Eichmann trial to the experiences of Women’s Courts, these both critical and creative practices are disseminated in the feminist field, but they have never been studied together. Through the newly defined concept of Legal Narra(c)tors, this ambitious and timely project aims to produce the first study of these narrative and performative practices of retrial, which have the merit of promoting a critical but not “fatalistic” approach to justice using as starting point of the reasoning – in line with the feminist situated knowledge – the story of a case rather than a theoretical abstraction. The main objective of the project is threefold: (1) empirically, to build an archive of feminist narrative and performative practices of retrial; (2) conceptually, to provide a definition and a theoretical framework for the new expression “Legal Narra(c)tors”; (3) normatively, to explore how main legal categories such as equality, difference, recognition, gender, subject (of rights), victim, witness, truth (and truth-seeking), and reparation are re-signified by these practices.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinator
37129 Verona
Italy