Foreword
Introduction Part I
Transitional Frictions
1 Identifying Srebrenica’s Missing
2 The Failure of International Justice in East Timor
and Indonesia
3 Body of Evidence Part II
Justice in the Vernacular
4 (In)Justice
5 Remembering Genocide
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 III
Voice, Truth, and Narrative
8 Testimonies, Truths, and Transitions of Justice in
Argentina and Chile
9 Judging the “Crime of Crimes”
10 Building a Monument
Afterword
Contributors
Alexander Laban Hinton ; Andrew Woolford;
Antonius C.G.M. Robben; Conerly Casey; Elizabeth F. Drexler; Jennie E.
Burnet; Leslie Dwyer; Mo Bleeker; Nigel Eltringham; Robert K. Hitchcock
and Wayne A. Babchuk; Roger Duthie; Sarah Wagner; Victoria Sanford and
Martha Lincoln
Subtitle: Global
Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence Edited and
with an introduction by Alexander Laban Hinton Subject:Human
Rights,Law,
Anthropology,Criminology Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4761-9 PaperISBN: 978-0-8135-5068-8 Pages:
288 pages Publication Date: March 2011 Series:
Genocide,
Political Violence, Human Rights
Praise:
"This superb collection of essays
illustrates well the messiness that underlies the evolving concept of
transitional justice. By casting an anthropoligical eye on the
real world of local justice -- on the ground and buffeted by history,
politics, globalized discourse, rituals, and power relationships, this
volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of
transitional justice and in particular, the assumptions that have
framed its initiation and development. Most importantly, these
essays raise the critical question of whether we have limited our
perspectives prematurely and accepted too restructive a definition of
the field."-Harvey M. Weinstein,Co-editor-in-chief, International Journal of Transitional
Justice
"Transitional Justice offers
great promise of reconciling past wrongs and conflicts, but we know
relatively little about its local effects. This excellent
anthropological collection gives a rich and complex story of how it
works in practice."-Sally Engle Merry, New York University
Description:
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.
About the Author:
ALEXANDER LABAN HINTON is the director
of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and an
associate 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. Receive
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