Human Rights

Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology

Edited by Lia Kent · Melissa Demian
Routledge August 2019

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ISBN-13
9780367278199
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
August 2019
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Transitional justice seeks to establish a break between the violent past and a peaceful, democratic future, and is based on compelling frameworks of resolution, rupture and transition. Bringing together contributions from the disciplines of law, history and anthropology, this comprehensive volume challenges these frameworks, opening up critical conversations around the concepts of justice and injustice; history and record; and healing, transition and resolution. The authors explore how these concepts operate across time and space, as well as disciplinary boundaries. They examine how transitional justice mechanisms are utilised to resolve complex legacies of violence in ways that are often narrow, partial and incomplete, and reinforce existing relations of power. They also destabilise the sharp distinction between ‘before’ and ‘after’ war or conflict that narratives of transition and resolution assume and reproduce.

As transitional justice continues to be celebrated and promoted around the globe, this book provides a much-needed reflection on its role and promises. It not only critiques transitional justice frameworks but offers new ways of thinking about questions of violence, conflict, justice and injustice. It was originally published as a special issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology
Lia Kent
2. Court in Between: The Spaces of Relational Justice in Papua New Guinea
Melissa Demian
3. Sounds of Silence: Everyday Strategies of Social Repair in Timor-Leste
Lia Kent
4. Women Lawyers and the Struggle for Change in Conflict and Transition
Anna Bryson and Kieran McEvoy
5. Justice Claims in Colonial Contexts: Commissions of Inquiry in Historical Perspective
Jennifer Balint, Julie Evans and Nesam McMillan
6. Whose Reparation Claims Count? Gender, Historyand (In)Justice
Natalia Gerodetti
7. Civil Society and Gender-Based Violence: Expanding the Horizons of Transitional Justice
Nicola Henry
8. ‘They Say That Justice Takes Time’: Taking Stock of Truth Seeking in Peru, Argentina and Serbia
Olivera Simic
9. Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge Marriages
Maria Elander
10. The Transitional Heart: Writing Poetry on War, Grief and the Intimacy of Shared Loss
Robyn Rowland and Mehmet Ali Celikel
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