Performances of Injustice

The Politics of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Kenya

AvGabrielle Lynch

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Following unprecedented violence in 2007/8, Kenya introduced two classic transitional justice mechanisms: a truth commission and international criminal proceedings. Both are widely believed to have failed, but why? And what do their performances say about contemporary Kenya; the ways in which violent pasts persist; and the shortcomings of transitional justice? Using the lens of performance, this book analyses how transitional justice efforts are incapable of dealing with how unjust and violent pasts actually persist. Gabrielle Lynch reveals the story of an ongoing political struggle requiring substantive socio-economic and political change that transitional justice mechanisms can theoretically recommend, and which they can sometimes help to initiate and inform, but which they cannot implement or create, and can sometimes unintentionally help to reinforce.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-30
Mått:150 x 228 x 19 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108444934

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Konstitution: stat och regering inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Gabrielle Lynch is a Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Warwick, and her research interests include ethnic identities and politics, elections and democratisation, and transitional justice and local reconciliation efforts with a particular focus on Kenya. Gabrielle has published numerous journal articles and book chapters. Her first book, I Say to You: Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya, was published in 2011. Gabrielle is an elected member of council for the British Institute in Eastern Africa, and has written a regular column in Kenya's Saturday Nation since April 2014.

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'Performances of Injustice: The Politics of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Kenya is a rich and highly detailed analysis of mechanisms introduced to address the causes of political violence in Kenya. It is a provocative and incisive analysis of causes of violence and the challenges and measures to transit Kenya to a democratic destination. It is an indispensable read for understanding the Kenya of yesterday and today.' Karuti Kanyinga, Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Haunted by Violence: Prologue. A time of violence; 1. Confronting the past: transitional justice and the politics of time and performance; 2. Framing the good citizen for orderly elections: the prioritisation of peace; 3. Enter the International Criminal Court: performing (in) justice; Part II. A Post-South African Truth Commission: 4. The Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission: a sense of once-againness; 5. Public hearings: bringing the audience back in; 6. Truth's grand narrative (part I): of injustice and suffering; 7. 'It is because your tribe is women': of the performance of familiar gender roles; 8. Truth's grand narrative (part II): of injustice and impunity; 9. 'Only talking won't help:' of justice and reparations; Part III. Familiar Performances: 10. Performed ruptures: Whither reconciliation.

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