In the shadow of transitional justice : : cross-national perspectives on the transformative potential of remembrance / / edited by Guy Elcheroth and Neloufer de Mel.

• Superior document: Europa perspectives in transitional justice
• TeilnehmendeR: Elcheroth, Guy,; De Mel, Neloufer,
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Europa perspectives in transitional justice.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

"This volume bridges two different research fields and the current debates within them. On the one hand, the transitional justice literature has been shaken by powerful calls to make the doctrine and practice of justice more transformative. On the other, collective memory studies now tend to lo...

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• 1. Spotlights and shadows: revisiting the scope of transitional justice
• PART I: Commemoration as celebration
• 2. Celebrating the end of apartheid
• 3. Commemorating genocide in Rwanda
• 4. Victory celebration and the unmaking of diversity in post-war Sri Lanka
• PART II: Forgotten issues
• 5. Social justice and the persistence of racialized segregation
• 6. Intergenerational justice
• 7. Non-citizens' rights: Xenophobia, nationalism and struggle post-transition
• PART III: Forgotten actors
• 8. Diaspora communities in transitional justice: A hidden presence
• 9. Rural women and their access to the law: Gendering the promise of post-war justice
• 10. Former combatants: Assessing their reintegration ten years after the end of war
• PART IV: Forgotten resources
• 11. Constructive resistance and the importance of not knowing in transitional justice
• 12. Inclusive narratives of suffering
• 13. How crowds transform identities
• 14. Collective resilience
• 15. On the futures of reckoning with the past
• Index.