Moral Autopsy
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-65379-4 (ISBN)
While communism was proclaimed dead in Eastern Europe around 1989, archives of communist secret services lived on. They became the site of judicial and moral examination of lives, suspicions of treason or 'collaboration' with the criminalized communist regime, and contending notions of democracy, truth, and justice. Through close study of court trials, biographies, media, films, and plays concerning judges, academics, journalists, and artists who were accused of being communist spies in Poland, this critical ethnography develops the notion of moral autopsy to interrogate the fundamental problems underlying global transitional justice, especially, the binary of authoritarianism and liberalism and the redemptive notions of transparency and truth-telling. It invites us to think beyond Eurocentric teleology of transition, capitalist nation-state epistemology and prerogatives of security and property, and the judicialized and moralized understanding of history and politics.
Saygun Gökarıksel's anthropological research on law, power, social struggles, and transitional justice is grounded in his personal political and academic experience in Istanbul, Kraków, New York, and Princeton. His writing appeared in journals across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and US including South Atlantic Quarterly, Comparative Studies in History and Society, and Dialectical Anthropology.
Prologue: Endtimes; Introduction: Moral Autopsy after Communism; Part I. Contextualizations: 1. Judicializing and Dissecting Communism at the 'End of History'; 2. Democracy Must be Defended: Sovereignty, Property, Security; Part II. In the Court of Law: 3. A Biography of Law: Fear, Shame, and Responsibility; 4. Naming the Secret Communist Agent: Suspicion, Archive, and Ambiguity; Part III. Public Tribunals of Judgment: 5. The Right to Know: Publicity and Media Revelations from Archives; 6. Performing Law: Public Scenes and Contentions of Truth-Telling; Conclusion: Of Truth and Political Responsibility; Epilogue: Democracy Irrestorable.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 677 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-65379-2 / 1009653792 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-65379-4 / 9781009653794 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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