Reframing social justice through indigenous know-how: Implications for social development, policy and practice

IF 1.5 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Charles Fonchingong Che
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Crafting a viable social justice–based policy is touted as critical for revamping social development in emerging economies. There is little understanding of social justice and forging sustainable relationships for social development through utilization of indigenous know-how. With evidence from local communities in Cameroon, this article explores conceptions of social justice through indigenous know-how and considers their implications for social development, policy and practice. Drawing on empirical data and in-depth, semi-structured interviews with key informants, this case study lays the foundations of what drives social justice and social development, often ‘behind the scenes’. This study ‘unpeels’ the invisible enablers and barriers to social development; a proposed social justice wheel and instruments deployed demonstrates how indigenous knowledge systems and institutions address multifaceted problems. Uppermost on the social justice agenda are issues related to counsel, affective community ties and social cohesion, oral traditions and mores, arbitration of community affairs, and projects of pressing need such as clean water, land disputes, mobilizing local resources in tackling key concerns related to poverty, agricultural practices, food security and climate change. Although due process and traditional diligence are harder to maintain due to underhand arrangements and often corrupt leadership, communities are reframing social justice to build capability on an incremental scale. The study illuminates the centrality and policy conundrum of fostering people-centred development. Harnessing indigenous agency, in synergy with modern governance institutions such as social services, to bolster social development is a prerequisite for enhancing a heightened sense of human rights and lessening inequality.
通过土著知识重塑社会正义:对社会发展、政策和实践的影响
制定一项可行的基于社会正义的政策被吹捧为改革新兴经济体社会发展的关键。人们对社会正义和通过利用土著知识建立可持续的社会发展关系知之甚少。本文利用喀麦隆当地社区的证据,通过土著知识探讨了社会正义的概念,并考虑了它们对社会发展、政策和实践的影响。本案例研究利用实证数据和对关键线人的深入、半结构化访谈,为推动社会正义和社会发展奠定了基础,通常是“幕后”。这项研究“揭开”了社会发展的无形推动者和障碍;拟议的社会正义车轮和部署的工具表明了土著知识系统和机构如何解决多方面问题。社会正义议程上最重要的问题是与律师、情感社区关系和社会凝聚力、口头传统和习俗、社区事务仲裁以及迫切需要的项目有关的问题,如清洁水、土地纠纷、调动当地资源解决与贫困、农业实践、粮食安全和气候变化有关的关键问题。尽管由于暗中安排和经常腐败的领导,正当程序和传统的勤勉很难维持,但社区正在重新构建社会正义,以逐步建立能力。该研究阐明了促进以人为本发展的中心地位和政策难题。利用土著机构与社会服务等现代治理机构协同作用,促进社会发展,是增强人权意识和减少不平等的先决条件。
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Global Social Policy
Global Social Policy POLITICAL SCIENCE-
CiteScore
3.20
自引率
6.70%
发文量
41
期刊介绍: Global Social Policy is a fully peer-reviewed journal that advances the understanding of the impact of globalisation processes upon social policy and social development on the one hand, and the impact of social policy upon globalisation processes on the other hand. The journal analyses the contributions of a range of national and international actors, both governmental and non-governmental, to global social policy and social development discourse and practice. Global Social Policy publishes scholarly policy-oriented articles and reports that focus on aspects of social policy and social and human development as broadly defined in the context of globalisation be it in contemporary or historical contexts.
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