Creating Justice

Eliza Garnsey is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations at the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London. Her trans-disciplinary research focuses on art and visual culture in international relations and world politics, particularly in relation to human rights, transitional justice, and conflict. Eliza’s monograph, The Justice of Visual Art: Creative State-Building in Times of Political Transition, demonstrates that there are aesthetic and creative ways to pursue transitional justice. Her recent book, Justicecraft: Imagining Justice in Times of Conflict, is co-authored with Lauren Balasco, Arnaud Kurze and Christopher K. Lamont. Caitlin Hamilton is a writer, researcher, and editor. Her research interests include the intersection of popular culture and world politics, creative methods, and feminist approaches to peace and security. Her recent publications include The Everyday Artefacts of World Politics (2022) and the third volume of Gender Matters in Global Politics (2023, co-edited with Laura J. Shepherd). She is also the founder of Hamilton Editorial which offers editing and mentoring services for academic writers.

A tour de force across several academic disciplines and artforms, this refreshingly innovative volume creatively reconsiders human rights abuses through exciting, mutually illuminating boundary crossings between the academic and the artistic worlds, too often out of sync with each other. Combining grounded theorizing with autobiographical testimony, it is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the messy and ever-changing reality of political violence and to imagine a way forward.

• List of FiguresForewordAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction: A note from the editorsChapter 2. Public Interventions: A conversation between Amy Sanchez Arteaga, Misael G. Diaz, and Tania Islas WeinsteinChapter 3. Painting and Photography: A conversation between Jane Lydon and Danie MellorChapter 4. Performance: A conversation between Iman Aoun and Toni Shapiro-PhimChapter 5. Architecture: A conversation between Tiziana Panizza Kassahun and Konstantinos PittasChapter 6. Jewellery: A conversation between Su san Cohn and Caitlin HamiltonChapter 7. Textiles: A conversation between Christine Andrä and Laura Antonia Coral VelásquezChapter 8. Installations: A conversation between eL Seed and Arnaud KurzeChapter 9. Poetry and Performance: A conversation between Garima Dutt and Choman HardiChapter 10. Documentary Film: A conversation between Andrea Durbach and Dean GibsonChapter 11. Photography: A conversation between Shahidul Alam and Roland BleikerChapter 12. Sculpture: A conversation between Tatiana Fernández-Maya and Carey NewmanChapter 13. Music and Documentary Films: A conversation between Eda Elif Tibet and Enzo IkahChapter 14. Visual Arts: A conversation between Rachel Kerr and Milena MichalskiAbout the Editors