1st Edition

Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice

Edited By Philipp Schulz, Brandon Hamber, Heleen Touquet Copyright 2025
410 Pages
by Routledge

410 Pages
by Routledge

This book addresses the theory and practice of transitional justice through the lens of masculinities and queer perspectives. What and where are the intersections between masculinities and queer theories and frameworks for better understanding lived experiences of violence, justice, and transitions? How can masculinities and queer perspectives enhance and "complexify" our understandings of the... Read more

Section 1: Seeking Intersections between Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice 

1. Introduction: Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice

Philipp Schulz, Brandon Hamber, Heleen Touquet and Giulia Messmer 

2. Transitional Justice and Masculinities: A Critical Mapping of the Field

Brandon Hamber, Philipp Schulz, Heleen Touquet and Giulia Messmer 

3. Queering Transitional Justice: Reviewing the Field of Transitional Justice and Looking Towards Queer Possibilities

Katherine Fobear 

Section 2: Theories, Processes and Practices - Towards Inclusive Gender in TJ 

4. ‘Queering’ Transitional Justice from African Decolonial Perspectives?

Katharina Hoffmann and Thokozani Mbwana 

5. Linking a Queer Legal Theoretical Perspective and Transitional Justice: Challenges and Possibilities

E. Irem Aki 

6. The Heterosexual System Denuded: Ecuador’s Truth Commission

Pascha Bueno-Hansen 

7. Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice in Colombia: Institutionalized and Challenged Meanings of Gender

Anika Oettler 

Section 3: Gendering Justice and Transitions across Contexts 

8. Justice and Forced Marriage and Pregnancy in Wartime: A Gender Inclusive Approach

Camile Oliveira and Erin Baines 

9. Delineating Perpetratorhood: On Race, Masculinities and Fighting Impunity for Sexual Violence in DRC

Chloé Lewis and Susanne Alldèn 

10. Croatian Veteran Masculinities and Exclusive Narratives: Points of Identification with the ‘Myth of the Homeland War’ in the 2010s

Catherine Baker and Heleen Touquet 

11. Possibilities and Improbabilities: Reflections on ‘Queering’ Transitional Justice in Colombia and Lebanon/Syria

Henri Myrttinen, Laura Camila Barrios Sabogal and Charbel Maydaa 

Section 4: Beyond Violation-Centric Views

12. Queering Transitional Justice from Below: Some Inputs from Queer Masculinities

José Fernando Serrano-Amaya 

13. Reclaiming the Post-War Self: Masculinities, Political Prisoners, and Transitional Justice in El Salvador

Ursula Mosqueira 

14. Mind and Body: Civilian Enactment of Masculinity in the North of Ireland and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Seamus Campbell 

15. Civilian and Caring Masculinities and the Questions of Justice in Kashmir

Amya Agarwal 

16. Queering Post-War Transitions: Exploring Queer Potentials of the ‘Butterfly for Democracy’ Movement in Sri Lanka

Thiyargarja Waradas 

17. Concluding Thoughts and Calls to Action

Heleen Touquet, Philipp Schulz, Pascha Bueno-Hansen, José Fernando Serrano-Amaya, Brandon Hamber, Katherine Fobear

Biography

Philipp Schulz is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Brandon Hamber is John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace based at the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE) at Ulster University, United Kingdom.

Heleen Touquet is a visiting professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.