1st Edition

Times of Global Injustice Temporalities of Power and Community Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries

Edited By Paolo Amorosa, Ville Erkkilä, Karolina Stenlund Copyright 2026
370 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

370 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Time is an essential dimension of our shared understandings of the historical significance or fairness of a particular event or situation. The ways time is constructed, however, are characterized by a plurality of diverse and sometimes inconsistent representations. This book examines the uses of different conceptualizations of time in explaining injustice and justice in society from an... Read more

1.Introduction. Times of Global (In)justice.
Paolo Amorosa, Ville Erkkilä, and Karolina Stenlund

Part I: Official Time

2. Why Do People Move? Global Governance and the Times of Climate Migration
Usha Natarajan

3. Yesterday’s Tomorrows and Todays: Future-Making in Swedish Permit-Granting Procedure
Agnes Hellner 

4. As If a Foreign Country: Evidence Law and Settler Colonial Sovereignty
Genevieve Renard Painter

5. State Redress for Involuntary Sterilization in Sweden
Malin Arvidsson

6. Urgency and Exceptional Times: The State of Emergency as an Institution of Official Time
Tuukka Brunila

Part II: Emancipatory Time 

7. Temporal Justice and the Global Reckoning with Monuments: A Conflict of Historicities
Marek Tamm and Zoltán Boldizsár Simon

8. Urgency! At the European Court of Human Rights: Hope, Haste, and Climate Justice
Zoë Jay

9. Existential Time and Climate (In)Justice at the End of the World
Andrew R. Hom

10.Law, Time, and Tradition
Sebastián Machado

11.Stitching as Reparation: Expanding Narrations of the Past and Imagining the Future
Helena Alviar García and Laura Betancur Restrepo

Part III: Everyday Time

12.Authoritarian Regimes and the "Everyday Time": The Trial of Great Wolff
Ville Erkkilä

13. Times of Hermeneutical Injustice: Memory Struggle in the Public Discussion Around the Attack on the Elias Lönnrot Monument
Ulla Savolainen

14. Rehearsing the Future Through Design
Sara Duell

15. The Shape of Time to Come: The History of the Future in Teleological Legal Reasoning
Karolina Stenlund

16. Conclusions: Just(ice) in Time
Bo Stråth

Biography

Paolo Amorosa is a University Lecturer of International Law at the Law Faculty, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Ville Erkkilä is an Academy Research Fellow at the Center for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Karolina Stenlund is a University Researcher and Team Leader at the Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity, and the European Narratives (EuroStorie), based at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

`Times of Global Injustice is an accomplished and fascinating introduction to the intriguing relation between justice and time. In this topical and interdisciplinary collection of articles, local and global perspectives interact in a way that makes the book recommendable to a large audience.’
Professor Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki, Finland