ISBN:
9780415781732
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (241 p)
Series Statement:
Interventions
Parallel Title:
Print version Theorising Post-Conflict Reconciliation : Agonism, Restitution & Repair
DDC:
303.6
Keywords:
Reconciliation
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The founding of truth commissions, legal tribunals, and public confessionals in places like South Africa, Australia, Yugoslavia, and Chile have attempted to heal wounds and bring about reconciliation in societies divided by a history of violence and conflict. This volume asks how many of the popular conclusions reached by transitional justice studies fall short, or worse, unwittingly perpetuate the very injustices they aim to suture. Though often well intentioned, these approaches generally resolve in an injunction to "move on," as it were; to leave the painful past behind in the nam
Description / Table of Contents:
Theorizing Post-Conf lict Reconciliation Agonism, restitution and repair; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: the agon of reconciliation; 2 Agonism and the power of victim testimony; 3 A critique of law's violence yet (never) to come: United Nations' transitional justice policy and the (fore)closure of reconciliation; 4 Rhetorics of reconciliation: shifting conflict paradigms in Northern Ireland; 5 Fugitive reconciliation; 6 Can human beings forgive? Ethics and agonism in the face of divine violence
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The unforgiving: reflections on the resistance to forgiveness after atrocity8 Senses of justice: bodies, language and space; 9 The other is dead: mourning, justice, and the politics of burial; 10 The elements of political reconciliation; 11 Confounded by recognition: the apology, the High Court and the Aboriginal Embassy in Australia; Select bibliography; Index;
Description / Table of Contents:
Theorizing Post-Conf lict Reconciliation Agonism, restitution and repair; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: the agon of reconciliation; 2 Agonism and the power of victim testimony; 3 A critique of law's violence yet (never) to come: United Nations' transitional justice policy and the (fore)closure of reconciliation; 4 Rhetorics of reconciliation: shifting conflict paradigms in Northern Ireland; 5 Fugitive reconciliation; 6 Can human beings forgive? Ethics and agonism in the face of divine violence
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The unforgiving: reflections on the resistance to forgiveness after atrocity8 Senses of justice: bodies, language and space; 9 The other is dead: mourning, justice, and the politics of burial; 10 The elements of political reconciliation; 11 Confounded by recognition: the apology, the High Court and the Aboriginal Embassy in Australia; Select bibliography; Index
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