Phenomenal Justice

EVA VAN ROEKEL is an assistant professor in social and cultural anthropology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

"Insightful and engaging, Phenomenal Justice makes an important contribution to the anthropology of emotion and to understanding the ways that feelings and structural factors shape the lived experience of justice. This is an impressive piece of work."— Karen Faulk, co-editor of A Sense of Justice: Legal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America"Eva van Roekel's riveting account of the prolonged search for truth and reconciliation in the wake of Argentina's Military Dictatorship sheds new light on the vexed relationships between political, legal, moral, ritual, and emotional processes of recovering from trauma or arriving at a point where justice is felt to have been done."— Michael Jackson, author of The Politics of Storytelling"New Books Network" interview with Eva van Roekelhttps://player.fm/series/new-books-network-2472510/eva-van-roekel-phenomenal-justice-violence-and-morality-in-argentina-rutgers-up-2020— New Books Network"Transcending a simple right-versus-wrong dichotomy, the author writes an engaging narrative that invites the reader to embrace the complex subtleties of violence and morality, and of truth and reconciliation, in post-conflict Argentina, and by extension in the world at large. Phenomenal Justice is invaluable for students of anthropology and sociology who are approaching their first extensive fieldwork experience. Highly recommended." — Choice"Van Roekel's final defence of phenomenal anthropology as a tool for the analysis violence and its aftermath is a convincing one, and the book will have broad appeal to scholars interested in Argentine cultural and political history and transitional justice, memory and philosophy beyond Argentina as we seek to understand more about violence and (ongoing) injustice."— Bulletin of Spanish Studies"Phenomenal Justice examines what its author calls "the anthropology of emotion" and focuses on the reactions provoked by the 2005 ruling from Argentina's Supreme Court that declared unconstitutional the amnesty laws blocking prosecution for crimes committed under the military dictatorship."— Omar G. Encarnacion, Latin American Research Review"Eva van Roekel's riveting account of the prolonged search for truth and reconciliation in the wake of Argentina's Military Dictatorship sheds new light on the vexed relationships between political, legal, moral, ritual, and emotional processes of recovering from trauma or arriving at a point where justice is felt to have been done."— Michael Jackson, author of The Politics of Storytelling"Transcending a simple right-versus-wrong dichotomy, the author writes an engaging narrative that invites the reader to embrace the complex subtleties of violence and morality, and of truth and reconciliation, in post-conflict Argentina, and by extension in the world at large. Phenomenal Justice is invaluable for students of anthropology and sociology who are approaching their first extensive fieldwork experience. Highly recommended." — Choice"New Books Network" interview with Eva van Roekelhttps://player.fm/series/new-books-network-2472510/eva-van-roekel-phenomenal-justice-violence-and-morality-in-argentina-rutgers-up-2020— New Books Network"Insightful and engaging, Phenomenal Justice makes an important contribution to the anthropology of emotion and to understanding the ways that feelings and structural factors shape the lived experience of justice. This is an impressive piece of work."— Karen Faulk, co-editor of A Sense of Justice: Legal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America"Phenomenal Justice examines what its author calls "the anthropology of emotion" and focuses on the reactions provoked by the 2005 ruling from Argentina's Supreme Court that declared unconstitutional the amnesty laws blocking prosecution for crimes committed under the military dictatorship."— Omar G. Encarnacion, Latin American Research Review"Van Roekel's final defence of phenomenal anthropology as a tool for the analysis violence and its aftermath is a convincing one, and the book will have broad appeal to scholars interested in Argentine cultural and political history and transitional justice, memory and philosophy beyond Argentina as we seek to understand more about violence and (ongoing) injustice."— Bulletin of Spanish Studies

• List of AbbreviationsPrologue: The Verdict1. Phenomenal Justice2. Things That Matter3. Time4. Trauma5. Disgrace6. Laughter and Play7. Where Justice BelongsAcknowledgmentsGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex