Negative emotions and transitional justice / Mihaela Mihai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mihai, Mihaela, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transitional justice.

Political crimes and offenses.

Physical Description:

x, 223 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Contents:

1 Transitional Justice: Optional or Imperative? 25

Overcoming the Truth Versus Justice Dilemma 27

Stability Versus Justice: Another False Dilemma 29

Democratic Shifts and the Emotional Circumstances of Justice 36

The Exemplarity of Institutional Normative Consistency 41

2 Theorizing Resentment and Indignation 45

Liberal Democratic Accounts of the Sense of Justice and Their Limits 49

A Weak Constructionist View of Emotional Socialization 62

Constituting and Regulating Resentment and Indignation 67

The Sources of the Sense of Justice 73

3 Enabling Emotional Responsibility I: Judicial Review of Transitional Justice Legislation 79

Judicial Review and the Shaping of a Democratic Emotional Culture 83

The Limits of "Law as Integrity" 86

Judicial Review and the Exemplarity of Oriented Reflective Judgment 93

Reflective Judgment in Context I: Judicial Review of Transitional Justice Bills 101

4 Enabling Emotional Responsibility II: Criminal Trials in Democratic Transitions 123

Legal Didactics: Doing Justice to the Representation of Atrocity 127

The Instrumentality of Legalism 130

Criminal Trials and Legal Pedagogy: Toward Democratic Solidarity 136

Reflective Judgment in Context II: Transitional Justice and Criminal Trials 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231176507

0231176503

OCLC:

915323850