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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From Cases to Causes
in East Asian Societies
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Legal norms are regularly transgressed, in any society, without arousing collective
attention. Those catching it are “cases” (or “affaires” as they are called in French) that originate
in the judicial realm but gain a larger dimension through public stances whose types and outlets
are subject, over time, to change. Out of these interventions, which are not limited to the space
of the press, can emerge “causes” that mobilize more or less. Several disciplines have
confronted this phenomenon, including history, sociology, and anthropology. The 1990s work
of Élisabeth Claverie on the Calas and Chevalier de la Barre cases pioneeringly analyzed the
public response process then initiated by Voltaire to turn both trials into exemplary ones. At the
same time in the United States, Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold gave birth to the cause
lawyering scholarship that deals with the activism of legal professionals and has since expanded
as demonstrated by the research of Rachel Stern and Eva Pils for China or Celeste Arrington
for Japan and South Korea.
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">A case (or “affaire”), which must be distinguished from a “scandal” as shown by Cyril
Lemieux and Damien de Blic (</span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Politix </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">n°71, 2005), is defined in the 2007 volume </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Affaires,
scandales et grandes causes : De Socrate à Pinochet </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(edited by Luc Boltanski, Élisabeth
Claverie, Nicolas Offenstadt and Stéphane Van Damme) as a moment of test for ordinary
categories, such as statuses and values. Based on various case studies from Antiquity to the
present day, the book ends by calling for more specialists of non-European cultural areas to join
this line of research. As far as East Asia is concerned, one should note that Isabelle Thireau and
Hua Linshan on the one hand, Paul Jobin on the other have participated in the above studies by
respectively examining the Sun Zhigang scandal and the Minamata case. Their approach asks
what a case alters and not only reveals about a given social order, differentiating itself from the
microhistorical tradition that has spearheaded a renewal in the analysis of legal cases and
sources over the past decades (among the classics, see Carlo Ginzburg, </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The Cheese and the
Worms</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">, 1976, and Jonathan Spencer, </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The Death of Woman Wang</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">, 1979).
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">We offer here to continue interrogating what is at stake for a society in the surfacing of a
“case” based on East Asian experiences. We therefore invite contributions from diverse
disciplinary and temporal horizons, unrestricted to law or the last two centuries, to investigate
the trajectory of single or multiple cases contemplating: How and why some cases but not others
engender collective attention? Which move away from the judicial realm to enter the public
space? Which go as far as bringing about forms of mobilization? Which categories are then
tested and to which extent? In other words, under which conditions does a case become a cause?
Which actors are involved in this transformation? Following which logics, not only strategic
but also representational? Through which sources, media and discourses? With which effects?
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Such are the main questions that this thematic issue of </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident
</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">plans to explore. Special awareness will be given to the lexicon deployed in the frame of the
selected cases, to be probed in the different contexts under consideration – thus, for instance,
the term </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:arial,sans-serif">jiken </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(Japanese), </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:arial,sans-serif">sakkŏn </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(Korean), </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:arial,sans-serif">shijian </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(Chinese), </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-family:arial,sans-serif">sự kiện </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(Vietnamese) invariably
corresponding to the sinograms </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">事件</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">.
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Proposals for papers, in English or in French, should be addressed to the two editors of
the journal: </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:matthias.hayek@ephe.psl.eu">matthias.hayek@ephe.psl.eu</a></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> and <a href="mailto:pierre-emmanuel.roux@u-paris.fr">pierre-emmanuel.roux@u-paris.fr</a>, as well as to
Justine Guichard: </span></font><a href="mailto:justine.guichard@u-paris.fr">justine.guichard@u-paris.fr</a><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">, guest editor for this issue.
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">If you are interested in contributing to this issue, the editors kindly ask you to submit a
tentative title and an abstract by </span><span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif">September 15, 2023</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">.
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Full manuscripts should be submitted no later than </span><span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif">January 15, 2024 </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">and follow the
submission guidelines outlined here: </span><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://journals.openedition.org/extremeorient/739">https://journals.openedition.org/extremeorient/739</a></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">.
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