1st Edition

Beyond Transitional Justice Transformative Justice and the State of the Field (or non-field)

Edited By Matthew Evans Copyright 2022
112 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

112 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

112 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Beyond Transitional Justice reflects upon the state of the field (or non-field) of transitional justice in the current conjuncture, as well as identifying new possibilities and challenges in the fields with which transitional justice overlaps (such as human rights, peacebuilding, and development). Chapters intervene at the cutting edge of contemporary transitional justice research, addressing... Read more

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List of contributors

INTRODUCTION

  1. In, Against, and Beyond Transitional Justice: Themes and dilemmas for the field (or non-field) Matthew Evans
  2. PART 1: CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS AND BORDERS

  3. The Uses of Transitional Justice as a Field Maja Davidovic
  4. Crisis, Faith, and Transformation in Transitional Justice Dustin N. Sharp
  5. Beyond Disciplines, Beyond Fields, Beyond Transitional Justice Matthew Evans
  6. PART 2: NEW METHODS AND APPROACHES

  7. Foregrounding Transitional Justice Success through the Development of Thin Sympathy Joanna R. Quinn
  8. ‘Greening’ Transitional Justice? Rachel Killean and Lauren Dempster
  9. Transforming Experiences of Citizen Security? Dáire McGill
  10. What role for social scientific research in transformative justice? Eric Hoddy
  11. CONCLUSION

  12. Transitional Justice: Understanding the field Christine Bell

Index

Biography

Matthew Evans is a Senior Lecturer in Law, Politics, and Sociology at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, and Visiting Researcher in Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his PhD at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York, York, UK. His research focuses upon human rights, especially socioeconomic rights, transformative justice, and the roles of social movements, non-governmental organisations, and trade unions in advocacy networks. He is the author of Transformative Justice: Remedying Human Rights Violations Beyond Transition (Routledge, 2018) and editor of Transitional and Transformative Justice: Critical and International Perspectives (Routledge, 2019).