1st Edition

Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation Agonism, Restitution & Repair

Edited By Alexander Hirsch Copyright 2012
240 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction: The Agon of Reconciliation Alexander Keller Hirsch  2. Agonism and the Power of Victim Testimony Sonali Chakravarti  3. A Critique of Law’s Violence Yet (Never) to Come: United Nations Transitional Justice Policy and the (Fore)closure of Reconciliation Erik Doxtader  4. Rhetorics of Reconciliation: Shifting Conflict Paradigms in Northern Ireland Adrian Little  5. Fugitive Reconciliation  Alexander Keller Hirsch  6. Can Human Beings Forgive? Ethics and Agonism in the Face of Divine Violence James Martel  7. The Unforgiving: Reflections on the Resistance to Forgiveness after Atrocity Thomas Brudholm and Valerie Rosoux  8. Senses of Justice: Bodies, Language and Space Michael J Shapiro  9. The Other is Dead: Mourning, Justice, and the Politics of Burial Bonnie Honig  10. The Elements of Political Reconciliation Ernesto Verdeja  11. Confounded by Recognition: The Apology, the High Court and the Tent Embassy in Australia Paul Muldoon and Andrew Schaap

Biography

Alexander Keller Hirsch is Lecturer in the Political Science Department at Northeastern University, and Research Fellow at the University of California Humanities Research Institute, USA.