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'Closing the Books': The genealogy of transitional justice (TJ) / Muhammad Danial Azman

Drawing from secondary literature and three years of fieldwork in various post-conflict societies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, this article revisits the conceptual development of a term ‘Transitional Justice (TJ)’ in order to illuminate the political construction and deconstruction of...

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Main Author: Azman, M. D.
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya 2016
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B Philosophy (General)
H Social Sciences (General)
JA Political science (General)
JX International law
JZ International relations
Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/18526/1/Azman_2016.pdf
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spelling my.um.eprints.185262019-03-19T09:13:10Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/18526/ 'Closing the Books': The genealogy of transitional justice (TJ) / Muhammad Danial Azman Azman, M. D. B Philosophy (General) H Social Sciences (General) JA Political science (General) JX International law JZ International relations Drawing from secondary literature and three years of fieldwork in various post-conflict societies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, this article revisits the conceptual development of a term ‘Transitional Justice (TJ)’ in order to illuminate the political construction and deconstruction of TJ in international politics. Major patterns and themes are identified within the international thought and practice of TJ to unravel its potentials and pitfalls, with the aim to emphasise the difficulty in ‘defining justice’ in war-torn societies. TJ mechanisms are explored which indicate more culpability for perpetrators and compensation for victims in the midst of authoritarianism and civil wars across the globe. There is an immediate pragmatic need to move beyond rigid and thick legal positivist traditions and going beyond romanticising ‘liberal’ values that TJ represent in arriving at an epistemological understanding about TJ. As such, and drawing from poststructuralist intellectual strands in International Relations, this article illuminates the unstable binary distinction between the idea that both law and politics represents in ‘defining’ TJ. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya 2016-06-19 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by_nd http://eprints.um.edu.my/18526/1/Azman_2016.pdf Azman, M. D. (2016) 'Closing the Books': The genealogy of transitional justice (TJ) / Muhammad Danial Azman. SARJANA, 31 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN 1823-7746 https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/SARJANA/issue/current
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H Social Sciences (General)
JA Political science (General)
JX International law
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H Social Sciences (General)
JA Political science (General)
JX International law
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Azman, M. D.
'Closing the Books': The genealogy of transitional justice (TJ) / Muhammad Danial Azman
description Drawing from secondary literature and three years of fieldwork in various post-conflict societies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, this article revisits the conceptual development of a term ‘Transitional Justice (TJ)’ in order to illuminate the political construction and deconstruction of TJ in international politics. Major patterns and themes are identified within the international thought and practice of TJ to unravel its potentials and pitfalls, with the aim to emphasise the difficulty in ‘defining justice’ in war-torn societies. TJ mechanisms are explored which indicate more culpability for perpetrators and compensation for victims in the midst of authoritarianism and civil wars across the globe. There is an immediate pragmatic need to move beyond rigid and thick legal positivist traditions and going beyond romanticising ‘liberal’ values that TJ represent in arriving at an epistemological understanding about TJ. As such, and drawing from poststructuralist intellectual strands in International Relations, this article illuminates the unstable binary distinction between the idea that both law and politics represents in ‘defining’ TJ.
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