Transitional Justice
Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence
1st Edition
Published on 26. May 2010
283 pages
978-0-8135-5069-5 (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? 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.
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Transitional Justice
Global Mechanisms and Local Realities After Genocide and Mass Violence
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Transitional Justice
- Part One: Transitional Frictions
- 1. Identifying Srebrenica's Missing: The "Shaky Balance" of Universalism and Particularism
- 2. The Failure of International Justice in East Timor and Indonesia
- 3. Body of Evidence: Feminicide, Local Justice, and Rule of Law in "Peacetime" Guatemala
- Part Two: Justice in the Vernacular
- 4. (In)Justice: Truth, Reconciliation, and Revenge in Rwanda's Gacaca
- 5. Remembering Genocide: Hypocrisy and the Violence of Local/Global "Justice" in Northern Nigeria
- 6. Genocide, Affirmative Repair, and the British Columbia Treaty Process
- 7. Local Justice and Legal Rights among the San and Bakgalagadi of the Central Kalahari, Botswana
- Part Three: Voice, Truth, and Narrative
- 8. Testimonies, Truths, and Transitions of Justice in Argentina and Chile
- 9. Judging the "Crime of Crimes": Continuity and Improvisation at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- 10. Building a Monument: Intimate Politics of "Reconciliation" in Post-1965 Bali
- Afterword: The Consequences of Transitional Justice in Particular Contexts
- Contributors
- Index
