Transitional justice : global mechanisms and local realities after genocide and mass violence /

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Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.
Description:ix, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Genocide, political violence, human rights series
Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8108616
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Other authors / contributors:Hinton, Alexander Laban.
ISBN:9780813547619 (hardcover : alk. paper)
081354761X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Based on a conference held in 2007 in Newark, N.J.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Transitional justice
  • Part 1. Transitional Frictions
  • 1. Identifying Srebrenica's Missing: The "Shaky Balance" of Universalism and Particularism
  • 2. The Failure of International Justice in East Timor and Indonesia
  • 3. Body of Evidence: Feminicide, Local Justice, and Rule of Law in "Peacetime" Guatemala
  • Part 2. Justice in the Vernacular
  • 4. (In)Justice: Truth, Reconciliation, and Revenge in Rwanda's Gacaca
  • 5. Remembering Genocide: Hypocrisy and the Violence of Local/Global "Justice" in Northern Nigeria
  • 6. Genocide, Affirmative Repair, and the British Columbia Treaty Process
  • 7. Local Justice and Legal Rights among the San and Bakgalagadi of the Central Kalahari, Botswana
  • Part 3. Voice, Truth, and Narrative
  • 8. Testimonies, Truths, and Transitions of Justice in Argentina and Chile
  • 9. Judging the "Crime of Crimes": Continuity and Improvisation at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  • 10. Building a Monument: Intimate Politics of "Reconciliation" in Post-1965 Bali
  • Afterword: The Consequences of Transitional Justice in Particular Contexts
  • Contributors
  • Index