- Summary
- "The origins of this project date back to a 2007 symposium, 'Local justice : global mechanisms and local meanings in the aftermath of mass atrocity,' held at Rutgers University--Newark [N.J.] ... Several participants later presented papers in a session at the July 2007 meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina."--Acknowledgments.
- Series
- Genocide, political violence, human rights series
Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2010]
©2010
- Contents
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Introduction : Toward an anthropology of transitional justice / Alexander Laban Hinton
Identifying Srebrenica's missing : the "shaky balance" of universalism and particularism / Sarah Wagner
Failure of international justice in East Timor and Indonesia / Elizabeth F. Drexler
Body of evidence : feminicide, local justice, and rule of law in "peacetime" Guatemala / Victoria Sanford and Martha Lincoln
(In)justice : truth, reconciliation, and revenge in Rwanda's Gacaca / Jennie E. Burnet
Remembering genocide : hypocrisy and the violence of local/global "justice" in Northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey
Genocide, affirmative repair, and the British Columbia treaty process / Andrew Woolford
Local justice and legal rights among the San and Bakgalagadi of the Central Kalahari, Botswana / Robert K. Hitchcock and Wayne A. Babchuk
Testimonies, truths, and transitions of justice in Argentina and Chile / Antonius C.G.M. Robben
Judging the "crime of crimes" : continuity and improvisation at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham
Building a monument : intimate politics of "reconciliation" in post-1965 Bali / Leslie Dwyer
Afterword : Consequences of transitional justice in particular contexts / Roger Duthie.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Hinton, Alexander Laban.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Toward an anthropology of transitional justice / Alexander Laban Hinton -- Identifying Srebrenica's missing : the "shaky balance" of universalism and particularism / Sarah Wagner -- Failure of international justice in East Timor and Indonesia / Elizabeth F. Drexler -- Body of evidence : feminicide, local justice, and rule of law in "peacetime" Guatemala / Victoria Sanford and Martha Lincoln -- (In)justice : truth, reconciliation, and revenge in Rwanda's Gacaca / Jennie E. Burnet -- Remembering genocide : hypocrisy and the violence of local/global "justice" in Northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey -- Genocide, affirmative repair, and the British Columbia treaty process / Andrew Woolford -- Local justice and legal rights among the San and Bakgalagadi of the Central Kalahari, Botswana / Robert K. Hitchcock and Wayne A. Babchuk -- Testimonies, truths, and transitions of justice in Argentina and Chile / Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Judging the "crime of crimes" : continuity and improvisation at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham -- Building a monument : intimate politics of "reconciliation" in post-1965 Bali / Leslie Dwyer -- Afterword : Consequences of transitional justice in particular contexts / Roger Duthie.
