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Jones, Briony (2020) The persistence and performance of transitional justice and its ways of knowing atrocity. Cooperation and Conflict . (In Press)
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Abstract
Transitional justice, like other peacebuilding endeavours, strives to create change in the world and to produce knowledge that is useful (Goetschel and Pfluger 2014: 55). But the politics of how this knowledge is produced, shared and rendered legitimate depends upon the relationships between different epistemic communities, the way in which transitional justice has developed as a field, and the myriad contexts in which it is embedded at local, national and international levels. In particular, forms of ‘expert’ knowledge tend to be legal, foreign and based on models to be replicated elsewhere. Work on epistemic communities of peacebuilding can be usefully brought to bear on transitional justice, speaking to current debates in the literature on positionality, justice from below, marginalisation and knowledge imperialism. This paper offers two contributions to the field of transitional justice: (1) an analysis of the way the field has developed as an epistemic community(ies) and the relevance of this for a politics of knowledge, and (2) an argument for the politics of knowledge to be more widely discussed and understood as a factor in shaping transitional justice policy and practice, and as a call to a more ethical relationship with the supposed beneficiaries of transitional justice interventions.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy J Political Science > JC Political theory K Law [LC] > K Law (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Transitional justice, Social epistemology | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cooperation and Conflict | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 0010-8367 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 2020 | |||||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 September 2020 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | |||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | Posted ahead of print. Jones, Briony (2020) The persistence and performance of transitional justice and its ways of knowing atrocity. Cooperation and Conflict . (In Press) Copyright © 2020 The Author. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. DOI: [DOI] | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
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