The Justice Facade

Trials of Transition in Cambodia

AvAlexander Hinton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Is there a point to international justice? Many contend that tribunals deliver not only justice but truth, reconciliation, peace, democratization, and the rule of law. These are the transitional justice ideals frequently invoked in relation to the international hybrid tribunal in Cambodia that is trying senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime for genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the mid-to-late 1970s.In this ground-breaking book, Alexander Hinton argues these claims are a facade masking what is most critical: the ways in which transitional justice is translated, experienced, and understood in everyday life. Rather than reading the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in the language of global justice and human rights, survivors understand the proceedings in their own terms, including Buddhist beliefs and on-going relationships with the spirits of the dead.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-03-22
Mått:163 x 241 x 22 mm
Vikt:656 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198820949

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Alexander Hinton is Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Professor of Anthropology, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University. The American Anthropological Association selected Hinton as the recipient of the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology. Hinton was listed as one of 'Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide' and is a past President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Hinton has received fellowships from a range of institutions and was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Most recently Hinton was a convener of the international "Rethinking Peace Studies" initiative and served as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

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Hinton succeeds brilliantly in both denaturalizing the assumptions embedded in the transitional justice imaginary and disclosing how variously positioned actors appropriate and reframe transitional justice proceedings.

Innehållsförteckning

I - Vortices Preamble: Discourse, Time, and Space 1: Progression (Cambodia's Three Transitions) 2: Time (The Khmer Institute of Democracy) 3: Space (Centre for Social Development and the Public Sphere) II - Turbulence Preamble: Re/enactment 4: Aesthetics (Theary Seng, Vann Nath, and Victim Participation) 5: Performance (Reach Sambath, Public Affairs, and "Justice Trouble") 6: Discipline (Uncle Meng and the Trials of the Foreign) III - Eddies Preamble: Breaking the Silence 7: Subjectivity (DC-Cam and the ECCC Outreach Tour) 8: Normativity (Civil Party Testimony) 9: Disposition (Youk Chhang, Documenter and Survivor) Conclusion: Justice in Translation