Full Description
The discourse, scholarship, and practice of transitional justice have become pivotal to addressing historical systematic injustices. However, until recently, the field has largely overlooked some of the most enduring and pervasive injustices of human history: racism and the colonialism and slave-trade that both reflected and fuelled it. Race and Transitional Justice examines how race and racism interact with transitional justice mechanisms and institutions to question why this is the case, and how it could be different.
Bringing together diverse perspectives to examine the historical and socio-political contexts of transitional justice, this book argues that the field remains largely inattentive to the role of race. As a result, transitional justice institutions may be sustaining the very racialization that they are expected to remedy. The contributions offer a range of responses. Some call to abandon the whole field, citing its complicity in the indefinite maintenance of settler hegemony. Others consider transitional justice an essential space to work towards a more just, non-racist, social order. The result is a sensitive reflection into emancipatory transitional justice futures.
Contents
Barney Afako: Foreword: Reclaiming Racial Justice
1: Neha Jain and Sarah M.H. Nouwen: Race and Transitional Justice
2: Colleen Murphy: Mapping Critiques of the Treatment of Race and Racism in Transitional Justice
3: Zinaida Miller: Haunting Justice: Racing and De-racing through Transitional Justice
4: Vasuki Nesiah: Human Rights, Human Wrongs: "A More Demanding Relationship to History"
5: Edward Thomas: Clumsy Ethnography: How Genocide Lawyers Re-Racialized Darfur
6: Nicola Palmer: Racialized Exclusion through Universal Jurisdiction Trials: Thinking with and against Transitional Justice
7: Tshepo Madlingozi: Transitional Justice as Epistemicide: On Steve Biko's Pluralist Co-existence 'after' Conflict
