Introduction: The “Legitimacy Gap” between Law and Culture

Abstract

"The workshop from which these essays emerge is part of a conversation about truth and reconciliation held between the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto in Canada. Representing a “south-north dialogue” on “aesthetic education,” conference participants met at the Woodland Cultural Centre, a site that sits on the lands of the Six Nations of the Grand River, to address questions of truth and reconciliation.... Together, these essays engage our imaginations in coming to grips with the challenges of representing a voice to speak to an event for which an end is not prefigured, despite our commitments to reconciliation. By aligning voices from Canada and South Africa, the special issue makes sense of how cultural practices may engage with voices and issues that legal mechanisms violate, overlook, and neglect."