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Performances of Injustice

The Politics of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Kenya

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Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2018
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-44493-4 (ISBN)
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The two classic transitional justice mechanisms introduced by Kenya following the unprecedented violence in 2007/8 are widely believed to have failed, but why? Using the lens of performance, Gabrielle Lynch analyses how the efforts introduced were incapable of dealing with how unjust and violent pasts actually persist.
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.

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.

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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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 2 Maps
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 228 mm
Gewicht 520 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Strafverfahrensrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 1-108-44493-8 / 1108444938
ISBN-13 978-1-108-44493-4 / 9781108444934
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