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Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology

Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology

Author: Lia Kent; Melissa Demian
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367278199
Published In: August 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

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