Description
The Art of Transitional Justice examines the relationship between transitional justice and the practices of art associatedwith it. Art, which includes theater, literature, photography, and film, hasbeen integral to the understanding of the issues faced in situations oftransitional justice as well as other issues arising out ofconflict and mass atrocity. The chapters in this volume take up this understandingand its demands of transitional justice in situations in several countries:Afghanistan, Serbia, Srebenica, Rwanda, Northern Ireland, Cambodia, as well asthe experiences of resulting diasporic communities. In doing so, it brings tobear the insights from scholars, civil society groups, and art practitioners,as well as interdisciplinary collaborations.
Table of Contents
The Demands of Art in Transitional Justice Processes.- Dispersed Memories: Diaspora, Reconciliation and Healing.- Activism, Public Debate and TemporalComplexities in Fighting for Transitional Justice in Serbia.- AestheticApproaches to Justice: Addressing Jedwabne.- Theatre and Justice: A GrassrootsApproach to Transitional Justice in Afghanistan.- You are allowed (to be alive!) How art cangive permission.- The Visions of Literary Justice for Survivors of Srebrenica:Examining the Fictional Narratives of Srebrenica Genocide in Light of theInsights from Transitional Justice.- Frames of Genocide: Between performativity and aesthetics, memorials andarchives in the Transitional Justice Process in Rwanda.- The Artistic Imaginaryand Transitional Justice in Northern Ireland.- The Staging of History inCambodia.- On the Transformation of Wounds: Pictures as an engine of justice.- Memorial Culture in the former Yugoslavia: TheMothers of Srebenica and the destruction of artefacts by the ICTY.- The pluraljurisdictions of transitional aesthetics: bearing witness in liminal spaces.
