New critical spaces in transitional justice : gender, art, and memory / edited by Arnaud Kurze and Christopher K. Lamont.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kurze, Arnaud, editor.

Lamont, Christopher K., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transitional justice.

Human rights.

Identity politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Gathering work from contributors in international law, political science, sociology, and history, New Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice explains current trends in responses to post-conflict and post-authoritarian nations and offers original empirical research to help define the field for the future.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reconceptualizing Transitional Justice: Exploring the Nexus between Agency and Spatiality

Part I: Art, Activism, and Politics: Redefining Space in Transitional Justice

1. Borrowing Achilles's Armor: The Political Afterlife of Former Transitional Justice Mechanisms

2. The Site and Sights of Transitional Justice: Art at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg

3. Youth Activism, Art, and Transitional Justice: Emerging Spaces of Memory after the Jasmine Revolution

Part II: Civil Society, Gender, and Transitions: Emerging Spaces and Victimhood

4. Gendered Postconflict Justice: Male Survivors of Sexual Violence in Northern Uganda

5. Claiming Space: Advocacy for Gender Justice in Cambodia

6. The Question of Gender Inclusiveness of Bottom-Up Strategies in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Part III: Spatiality, Temporality, and the State

7. Libya in Transition: Spaces for Justice after Gaddafi

8. Navigating the Narrow Spaces for Transitional Justice in Iraq

9. Accountability in Syria: What Are the Options?

10. Dignity for the Defeated: Recognizing the "Other" in Post-Yugoslav Commemorative Practices

Conclusion: Practicing Critical Transitional Justice and the Road Ahead

Bibliography

Index

About the Editors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253039927

0253039924

OCLC:

1083641768