RHETORICS OF JUSTICE IN EMERGING DEMOCRACIES RHETORIQUES DE LA JUSTICE DANS LES DEMOCRATIES EMERGENTES
JUSTICE IN EMERGING RHETORIC OF RHETORIC OF DEMOCRACY JUSTICE IN EMERGING DEMOCRACIES

Summary/Abstract: The four articles composing the thematic dossier Rhetorics of Justice in Emerging Democracies represent the initial results of the joint Romanian and South African research project – Rhetoric of Justice and Deliberative Perceptions of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Romania and Post-Apartheid South Africa1. The general aim of the project is to provide a series of comparative studies of Romanian and South African public debate regarding the rule of law and social justice in terms of its rhetorical uses. What the project designates by “justice” is not only the legal system, but particularly the manners in which notions such as fairness, reparation and equity are rhetorically reconstructed by public actors, the ways they are disseminated by the media, and the way they become objects of institutionalized politics. Public sphere is considered to be the privileged middleground because of its deliberative virtue.

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