Transitional Justice

Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2011
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-5068-8 (ISBN)

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How do societies come to terms with the aftermath of genocide and mass violence, and how might the international community contribute to this process? This argues that, however well-intentioned, transitional justice needs to more deeply grapple with the complexities of global and transnational involvements and the local on-the-ground realities with which they intersect.

How do societies come to terms with the aftermath of genocide and mass violence, and how might the international community contribute to this process? Recently, transitional justice mechanisms such as tribunals and truth commissions have emerged as a favored means of redress. Transitional Justice, the first edited collection in anthropology focused directly on this issue, argues that, however well-intentioned, transitional justice needs to more deeply grapple with the complexities of global and transnational involvements and the local on-the-ground realities with which they intersect.Contributors consider what justice means and how it is negotiated in different localities where transitional justice efforts are underway after genocide and mass atrocity. They address a variety of mechanisms, among them, a memorial site in Bali, truth commissions in Argentina and Chile, First Nations treaty negotiations in Canada, violent youth groups in northern Nigeria, the murder of young women in post-conflict Guatemala, and the gacaca courts in Rwanda.

ALEXANDER LABAN HINTON is the director of the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights and a professor of anthropology and global affairs at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of the award-winning Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide.

Foreword by Mo Bleeker
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Transitional Justice by Alexander Laban Hinton

PART ONE: Transitional Frictions
1. Identifying Srebrenica's Missing: The "Shaky Balance" of Universalism and Particularism by Sarah Wagner
2. The Failure of International Justice in East Timor and Indonesia by Elizabeth F. Drexler
3. Body of Evidence: Feminicide, Local Justice, and Rule of Law in "Peacetime" Guatemala by Victoria Sanford and Martha Lincoln

PART TWO: Justice in the Vernacular
4. (In)Justice: Truth, Reconciliation, and Revenge in Rwanda's Gacaca by Jennie E. Burnet
5. Remembering Genocide: Hypocrisy and the Violence of Local/Global "Justice" in Nothern Nigeria by Conerly Casey
6. Genocide, Affirmative Repair, and the British Columbia Treaty Process by Andrew Woolford
7. Local Justice and Legal Rights among the San and Bakgalagadi of the Central Kalahari, Botswana by Robert K. Hitchcock and Wayne A. Babchuk

PART THREE: Voice, Truth, and Narrative
8. Testimonies, Truths, and Transitions of Justice in Argentina and Chile by Antonius C. G. M. Robben
9. Judging the "Crime of Crimes": Continuity and Improvisation at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda by Nigel Eltringham
10. Building a Monument: Intimate Politics of "Reconciliation" in Post-1965 Bali by Leslie Dwyer

Afterword: The Consequences of Transitional Justice in Particular Contexts by Roger Duthie

Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.2011
Reihe/Serie	Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
Einführung	Alexander Laban Hinton
Zusatzinfo	1 image
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	397 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8135-5068-8 / 0813550688
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-5068-8 / 9780813550688
Zustand	Neuware