Description
Implicit conceptions of time associated with progress and linearity have influenced scholars and practitioners in the fields of transitional justice and peacebuilding, but time and temporality have rarely been systematically considered.
Time and Temporality in Transitional and Post-Conflict Societies examines how time is experienced, constructed and used in transitional and post-conflict societies. This collection critically questions linear, transitional justice time and highlights the different temporalities that exist at local and institutional levels through original empirical research.
Presenting empirical and often ethnographic research from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cambodia, Mozambique, Palestine/Israel, Rwanda and South Africa, contributors use a temporal lens to investigate key issues including: transitional justice institutions, peace processes, victimhood, perpetrators, accountability, reparations, forgiveness, reconciliation and memoralisation.
This timely monograph will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers, interested in fields such as political science, international relations, anthropology, transitional justice and conflict resolution. It will also be relevant to conflict resolution and peacebuilding practitioners.
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Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Temporal perspectives on transitional and post-conflict societies
Natascha Mueller-Hirth & Sandra Rios Oyola
Part I Questioning transitional justice time
2. Time and Reconciliation. Negotiating with ghosts
Valérie Rosoux
3. Transitional justice time: Uncle San, Aunty Yan, and outreach at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Alexander Laban Hinton
4. Peace Processes and Social Acceleration: The Case of Colombia
Sandra Rios Oyola
Part II Co-existing and conflicting temporalities: institutions and experiences of lived time
5. Anthropological Reflections on Violence and Time in Argentina
Eva van Roekel
6. Negotiating Temporalities of Accountability in Communities in Conflict in Africa
Victor Igreja
7. Still waiting: victim policies, social change and fixed liminality
Natascha Mueller-Hirth
Part III Intergenerational transmission and memorialisation
8. Time to hear the other side: Transitional temporalities and transgenerational narratives in post-genocide Rwanda
Richard Benda
9. Un-Doing Brazil’s dictatorial past
Gisele Iecker De Almeida
10. Ruins, Resistance, and Pluritemporality in Palestine-Israel
Luisa Gandolfo
11. Conclusion: Defusing time bombs: towards an understanding of time and temporality in peacebuilding
Natascha Mueller-Hirth & Sandra Rios Oyola
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