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ISBN: | 9781108575164 1108575161 9781108426213 1108426212 9781108444934 1108444938
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Following unprecedented violence in 2007/8, Kenya introduced two classic transitional justice mechanisms: a truth commission and international criminal proceedings. Both are widely believed to have failed, but why? And what do their performances say about contemporary Kenya; the ways in which violent pasts persist; and the shortcomings of transitional justice? Using the lens of performance, this book analyses how transitional justice efforts are incapable of dealing with how unjust and violent pasts actually persist. Gabrielle Lynch reveals the story of an ongoing political struggle requiring substantive socio-economic and political change that transitional justice mechanisms can theoretically recommend, and which they can sometimes help to initiate and inform, but which they cannot implement or create, and can sometimes unintentionally help to reinforce.
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Other form: | Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Lynch, Gabrielle. Performances of Injustice. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018 9781108426213
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