Localising Memory In Transitional Justice

Author : Mina Rauschenbach,Julia Viebach,Stephan Parmentier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000575682

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Localising Memory in Transitional Justice by Mina Rauschenbach,Julia Viebach,Stephan Parmentier Pdf

This collection adds to the critical transitional justice scholarship that calls for “transitional justice from below” and that makes visible the complex and oftentimes troubled entanglements between justice endeavours, locality, and memory-making. Broadening this perspective, it explores informal memory practices across various contexts with a focus on their individual and collective dynamics and their intersections, reaching also beyond a conceptualisation of memory as mere symbolic reparation and politics of memory. It seeks to highlight the hidden, unwritten, and multifaceted in today’s memory boom by focusing on the memorialisation practices of communities, activists, families, and survivors. Organising its analytical focal point around the localisation of memory, it offers valuable and new insights on how and under what conditions localised memory practices may contribute to recognition and social transformation, as well as how they may at best be inclusive, or exclusive, of dynamic and diverse memories. Drawing on inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches, this book brings an in-depth and nuanced understanding of local memory practices and the dynamics attached to these in transitional justice contexts. It will be of much interest to students and scholars of memory and genocide studies, peace and conflict studies, transitional justice, sociology, and anthropology.

Author : Joseph Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351966764

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Transitional Justice and the Politics of Inscription by Joseph Robinson Pdf

Taking Northern Ireland as its primary case study, this book applies the burgeoning literature in memory studies to the primary question of transitional justice: how shall societies and individuals reckon with a traumatic past? Joseph Robinson argues that without understanding how memory shapes, moulds, and frames narratives of the past in the minds of communities and individuals, theorists and practitioners may not be able to fully appreciate the complex, emotive realities of transitional political landscapes. Drawing on interviews with what the author terms "memory curators," coupled with a robust analysis of secondary literature from a range of transitional cases, the book analyses how the bodies of the dead, the injured, and the traumatised are written into - or written out of - transitional justice. The author argues that scholars cannot appreciate the dynamism of transitional memory-space unless they first engage with the often silenced or marginalised voices whose memories remain trapped behind the antagonistic politics of fear and division. Ultimately challenging the imperative of national reconciliation, the author argues for a politics of public memory that incubates at multiple nodes of social production and can facilitate a vibrant, democratic debate over the ways in which a traumatic past can or should be remembered.

Author : S. Elizabeth Bird,Fraser M. Ottanelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 178068262X

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The Performance of Memory as Transitional Justice by S. Elizabeth Bird,Fraser M. Ottanelli Pdf

Based on case studies spanning time and geography from the Spanish to the Nigerian civil wars, to government repression in Argentina and genocidal policies in Guatemala and Rwanda and, finally, to forced population removal in Australia and Israel, this collection represents a focused attempt to come to grips with some of the strategies used to publicly engage with traumatic memory work.

Author : Carmen González Enríquez,Alexandra Barahona de Brito,Paloma Aguilar,Paloma Aguilar Fernández
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199240807

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The Politics of Memory by Carmen González Enríquez,Alexandra Barahona de Brito,Paloma Aguilar,Paloma Aguilar Fernández Pdf

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Author : Camila de Gamboa Tapias,Bert van Roermund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political violence
ISBN : 1839700548

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Just Memories by Camila de Gamboa Tapias,Bert van Roermund Pdf

How do memory and remembrance relate to the specific mode of transitional justice that lays emphasis on restoration? What is captured and what is obliterated in individual and collective efforts to come to terms with a violent past? Across this volume consisting of twelve in-depth contributions, the politics of memory in various countries are related to restorative justice under four headings: restoring trust, restoring truth, restoring land and restoring law. While the primary focus is a philosophical one, authors also engage in incisive analyses of historical, political and/or legal developments in their chosen countries. Examples of these include South Africa, Colombia, Rwanda, Israel and the land of Palestine, which they know all too well on a personal basis and from daily experience. On 10 December 2020, the book was officially launched with a webinar which brought together the editors of the book and prof. Stephan Parmentier (KU Leuven) and prof. Eric Heinze (Queen Mary University of London) as respondents. A recording of the presentations and the discussion can be viewed here. CAMILA DE GAMBOA TAPIAS is Associate Professor at the Centro de Estudios sobre Paz y Conflictos, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia. BERT VAN ROERMUND is Professor Emeritus of legal philosophy and Honorary Professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Author : Rosalind Shaw,Lars Waldorf,Pierre Hazan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804774635

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Localizing Transitional Justice by Rosalind Shaw,Lars Waldorf,Pierre Hazan Pdf

Through war crimes prosecutions, truth commissions, purges of perpetrators, reparations, and memorials, transitional justice practices work under the assumptions that truth telling leads to reconciliation, prosecutions bring closure, and justice prevents the recurrence of violence. But when local responses to transitional justice destabilize these assumptions, the result can be a troubling disconnection between international norms and survivors' priorities. Localizing Transitional Justice traces how ordinary people respond to—and sometimes transform—transitional justice mechanisms, laying a foundation for more locally responsive approaches to social reconstruction after mass violence and egregious human rights violations. Recasting understandings of culture and locality prevalent in international justice, this vital book explores the complex, unpredictable, and unequal encounter among international legal norms, transitional justice mechanisms, national agendas, and local priorities and practices.

Author : Christine Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317007272

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Transitional Justice by Christine Bell Pdf

This collection on transitional justice sits as part of a library of essays on different concepts of ’justice’. Yet transitional justice appears quite different from other types of justice and fundamental ambiguities characterise the term that raise questions as to how it should sit alongside other concepts of justice. This collection attempts to capture and portray three different dimensions of the transitional justice field. Part I addresses the origins of the field which continue to bedevil it. Indeed the origins themselves are increasingly debated in what is an emergent contested historiography of the field that assists in understanding its contemporary quirks and concerns. Part II addresses and sets out parts of the ’tool-kit’ of transitional justice, which could be understood as the canonical research agenda of the field. Part III tries to convey a sense of the way in which the field is un-folding and extending to new transitions, tools, theories of justice, and self-critique.

Author : Alexandra Barahona de Brito,Carmen González Enríquez,Paloma Aguilar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Amnesty
ISBN : OCLC:1024920208

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The politics of memory by Alexandra Barahona de Brito,Carmen González Enríquez,Paloma Aguilar Pdf

Author : Stewart Motha,Honni van Rijswijk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317569213

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Law, Memory, Violence by Stewart Motha,Honni van Rijswijk Pdf

The demand for recognition, responsibility, and reparations is regularly invoked in the wake of colonialism, genocide, and mass violence: there can be no victims without recognition, no perpetrators without responsibility, and no justice without reparations. Or so it seems from law’s limited repertoire for assembling the archive after ‘the disaster’. Archival and memorial practices are central to contexts where transitional justice, addressing historical wrongs, or reparations are at stake. The archive serves as a repository or ‘storehouse’ of what needs to be gathered and recognised so that it can be left behind in order to inaugurate the future. The archive manifests law’s authority and its troubled conscience. It is an indispensable part of the liberal legal response to biopolitical violence. This collection challenges established approaches to transitional justice by opening up new dialogues about the problem of assembling law’s archive. The volume presents research drawn from multiple jurisdictions that address the following questions. What resists being archived? What spaces and practices of memory - conscious and unconscious - undo legal and sovereign alibis and confessions? And what narrative forms expose the limits of responsibility, recognition, and reparations? By treating the law as an ‘archive’, this book traces the failure of universalised categories such as 'perpetrator', 'victim', 'responsibility', and 'innocence,' posited by the liberal legal state. It thereby uncovers law’s counter-archive as a challenge to established forms of representing and responding to violence.

Author : Guy Elcheroth,Neloufer de Mel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1003167284

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In the Shadow of Transitional Justice by Guy Elcheroth,Neloufer de Mel Pdf

"This volume bridges two different research fields and the current debates within them. On the one hand, the transitional justice literature has been shaken by powerful calls to make the doctrine and practice of justice more transformative. On the other, collective memory studies now tend to look more closely at meaningful silences to make sense of what nations leave out when they remember their pasts. The book extends the scope of this heuristic approach to the different mechanisms that come under the umbrella of transitional justice, including legal prosecution, truth-seeking and reparations, alongside memorialisation. The 15 chapters included in the volume, written by expert scholars from diverse disciplinary and societal backgrounds, explore a range of practices intended to deal with the past, and how making the invisible visible again can make transitional justice-or indeed, any societal engagement with the past-more transformative. Seeking to combine contextual depth and comparative width, the book features two key case analyses-South Africa and Sri Lanka-alongside discussions of multiple cases, including such emblematic sites as Rwanda and Argentina, but also sites better known for resisting than for embracing international norms of transitional justice, such as Turkey or Cãote d'Ivoire. The different contributions, grouped in themed sections, progressively explore the issues, actors and resources that are typically forgotten when societies celebrate their pasts rather than mourning their losses and, in doing so, open new possibilities to build more inclusive processes for addressing the present consequences of past injustice"--

Author : Peter Manning
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317007241

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Transitional Justice and Memory in Cambodia by Peter Manning Pdf

Memories of violence, suffering and atrocities in Cambodia are today being pulled in different directions. A range of transitional justice practices have been put to work in the name of redressing, restoring and renewing memory. At the centre of this stage is the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), a hybrid tribunal established to prosecute the leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, under which 1.6 million Cambodians died of hunger or disease or were executed. This book unpicks the way memory is reconstructed through appeals to a national memory, the legal reframing and coding of memories as crimes, and bids to locate personal memories within collective biographies. Analysing the techniques and interventions of the ECCC, as well as exploring the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the book explores the relationships in which Cambodian communities navigate memories of political violence. This book is essential for understanding transitional justice in Cambodia in, and beyond, the courtroom. Transitional Justice and Memory in Cambodia shows that the governing logic of transitional justice interventions – that societies are unable to 'deal with' memories of atrocity and violence without some form of transitional justice mechanism – neglects the complexity of memory and remembering in post-atrocity contexts and the agency of the subjects to which such mechanisms are addressed. Drawing on documentary sources, legal transcripts, interviews and participant observation data, the book situates transitional justice processes in Cambodia within a wider context of social and cultural memory politics, examining (old and new) conflicts of memory that have emerged between the varied accounts and uses of the past that exist in Cambodia now. As such, it will appeal to students and scholars in sociology, human rights, law and criminology.

Author : Arnaud Kurze,Christopher K. Lamont
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253039927

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New Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice by Arnaud Kurze,Christopher K. Lamont Pdf

Since the 1980s, transitional justice mechanisms have been increasingly applied to account for mass atrocities and grave human rights violations throughout the world. Over time, post-conflict justice practices have expanded across continents and state borders and have fueled the creation of new ideas that go beyond traditional notions of amnesty, retribution, and reconciliation. Gathering work from contributors in international law, political science, sociology, and history, New Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice addresses issues of space and time in transitional justice studies. It explains new trends in responses to post-conflict and post-authoritarian nations and offers original empirical research to help define the field for the future.

Author : Kalliopi Chainoglou,Barry Collins,Michael Phillips,John Strawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317116615

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Injustice, Memory and Faith in Human Rights by Kalliopi Chainoglou,Barry Collins,Michael Phillips,John Strawson Pdf

This multi-disciplinary collection interrogates the role of human rights in addressing past injustices. The volume draws on legal scholars, political scientists, anthropologists and political philosophers grappling with the weight of the memory of historical injustices arising from conflicts in Europe, the Middle East and Australasia. It examines the role of human rights as legal doctrine, rhetoric and policy as developed by states, international organizations, regional groups and non-governmental bodies. The authors question whether faith in human rights is justified as balm to heal past injustice or whether such faith nourishes both victimhood and self-justification. These issues are explored through three discrete sections: moments of memory and injustice, addressing injustice; and questions of faith. In each of these sections, authors address the manner in which memory of past conflicts and injustice haunt our contemporary understanding of human rights. The volume questions whether the expectation that human rights law can deal with past injustice has undermined the development of an emancipatory politics of human rights for our current world.

Author : Mina Rauschenbach,Julia Viebach,Stephan Parmentier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032254076

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Localising Memory in Transitional Justice: Memory dynamics in transitional justice by Mina Rauschenbach,Julia Viebach,Stephan Parmentier Pdf

Author : Susanne Buckley-Zistel,Stefanie Schäfer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 1780682115

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Memorials in Times of Transition by Susanne Buckley-Zistel,Stefanie Schäfer Pdf

Over the past decades, the practise of and research on transitional justice have expanded to preserving memory in the form of memorials. Yet what are the general roles of memorials in transitions to justice? Who uses or opposes memorials, and to which ends? How û and what û do memorials communicate both explicitly and implicitly to the public? What is their architectural language?