Full Description
This collection on transitional justice sits as part of a library of essays on different concepts of 'justice'. Yet transitional justice appears quite different from other types of justice and fundamental ambiguities characterise the term that raise questions as to how it should sit alongside other concepts of justice. This collection attempts to capture and portray three different dimensions of the transitional justice field. Part I addresses the origins of the field which continue to bedevil it. Indeed the origins themselves are increasingly debated in what is an emergent contested historiography of the field that assists in understanding its contemporary quirks and concerns. Part II addresses and sets out parts of the 'tool-kit' of transitional justice, which could be understood as the canonical research agenda of the field. Part III tries to convey a sense of the way in which the field is un-folding and extending to new transitions, tools, theories of justice, and self-critique.
Contents
Introduction1; Hidden Histories; The Question of Turkey: Contested, Forgotten and Remembered Memories; The Lives and Times of Sentenced Nazi War Criminals: Re-negotiating Guilt and Innocence in Post-Nuremberg Germany 1950-1975 1; René Cassin, State Sovereignty and Transitional Justice in the Period of the Second World War; Processes and Rituals; The Theatre of Justice: On the Educational Meaning of Criminal Trials; Memory Culture and Urban Reconstruction: The Case of Staro Sajmište in Belgrade 1; Transitional Justice and Local Memory: Commemoration and Social Action in Londres 38, Espacio de Memorias; The Role of Ritual is Shifting Collective Dispositions; Contradictory Perceptions of Conflict and Justice; Communicating the ICC: Imagery and Image-Building in Uganda; Child Soldiers: Towards a Rights-Based Imagery; Images of International Criminal Justice in the Former Yugoslavia; Discourse and Artistic Expression; Wagner in Israel: The Mixture of Politics and Music; 'Maybe if the world had paid more attention'. 1 Western Cinematic Perspectives on the Rwandan Genocide and the Role of the West: Hotel Rwanda, Shooting Dogs and Sometimes in April; An Eye for an Eye: The Imagery of the 1947 Partition (India, Pakistan)
