The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia

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The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia

By Alexander Hinton
Oxford University Press March 2018

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ISBN-13
9780198820949
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
March 2018
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Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Is there a point to international justice?

Many contend that tribunals deliver not only justice but truth, reconciliation, peace, democratization, and the rule of law. These are the transitional justice ideals frequently invoked in relation to the international hybrid tribunal in Cambodia that is trying senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime for genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the mid-to-late 1970s.

In this ground-breaking book, Alexander Hinton argues these claims are a facade masking what is most critical: the ways in which transitional justice is translated, experienced, and understood in everyday life. Rather than reading the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in the language of global justice and human rights, survivors understand the proceedings in their own terms, including Buddhist beliefs and on-going relationships with the spirits of the dead.

Table of Contents

I - Vortices
Preamble: Discourse, Time, and Space
1: Progression (Cambodia's Three Transitions)
2: Time (The Khmer Institute of Democracy)
3: Space (Centre for Social Development and the Public Sphere)

II - Turbulence
Preamble: Re/enactment
4: Aesthetics (Theary Seng, Vann Nath, and Victim Participation)
5: Performance (Reach Sambath, Public Affairs, and "Justice Trouble")
6: Discipline (Uncle Meng and the Trials of the Foreign)

III - Eddies
Preamble: Breaking the Silence
7: Subjectivity (DC-Cam and the ECCC Outreach Tour)
8: Normativity (Civil Party Testimony)
9: Disposition (Youk Chhang, Documenter and Survivor)
Conclusion: Justice in Translation
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