Cart
Free US shipping over $10
Proud to be B-Corp

Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology Lia Kent (The Australian National University, Australia)

Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology By Lia Kent (The Australian National University, Australia)

Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology by Lia Kent (The Australian National University, Australia)


$58.59
Condition - New
Only 2 left

Summary

Bringing together contributions from the disciplines of law, history and anthropology, this book opens up critical conversations around the concepts of justice and injustice; history and record; and healing, transition and resolution. It was originally published as a special issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal.

Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology Summary

Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology by Lia Kent (The Australian National University, Australia)

Transitional justice seeks to establish a break between the violent past and a peaceful, democratic future, and is based on compelling frameworks of resolution, rupture and transition. Bringing together contributions from the disciplines of law, history and anthropology, this comprehensive volume challenges these frameworks, opening up critical conversations around the concepts of justice and injustice; history and record; and healing, transition and resolution. The authors explore how these concepts operate across time and space, as well as disciplinary boundaries. They examine how transitional justice mechanisms are utilised to resolve complex legacies of violence in ways that are often narrow, partial and incomplete, and reinforce existing relations of power. They also destabilise the sharp distinction between 'before' and 'after' war or conflict that narratives of transition and resolution assume and reproduce.

As transitional justice continues to be celebrated and promoted around the globe, this book provides a much-needed reflection on its role and promises. It not only critiques transitional justice frameworks but offers new ways of thinking about questions of violence, conflict, justice and injustice. It was originally published as a special issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal.

About Lia Kent (The Australian National University, Australia)

Lia Kent is a Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University. Her research is concerned with questions of peacebuilding, transitional justice, reconciliation and memory, with a geographic focus on Timor-Leste.

Melissa Demian is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK. She is a specialist in the anthropology of law with particular reference to Papua New Guinea, and has published on topics ranging from property and land disputes to customary and constitutional law.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology 2. Court in Between: The Spaces of Relational Justice in Papua New Guinea 3. Sounds of Silence: Everyday Strategies of Social Repair in Timor-Leste 4. Women Lawyers and the Struggle for Change in Conflict and Transition 5. Justice Claims in Colonial Contexts: Commissions of Inquiry in Historical Perspective 6. Whose Reparation Claims Count? Gender, Historyand (In)Justice 7. Civil Society and Gender-Based Violence: Expanding the Horizons of Transitional Justice 8. 'They Say That Justice Takes Time': Taking Stock of Truth Seeking in Peru, Argentina and Serbia 9. Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge Marriages 10. The Transitional Heart: Writing Poetry on War, Grief and the Intimacy of Shared Loss

Additional information

NLS9781032090771
9781032090771
1032090774
Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology by Lia Kent (The Australian National University, Australia)
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-06-30
212
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a new book - be the first to read this copy. With untouched pages and a perfect binding, your brand new copy is ready to be opened for the first time

Customer Reviews - Transitional Justice in Law, History and Anthropology