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Jones, Briony (2015) Stories of “success” : narrative, expertise, and claims to knowledge. Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société, 30 (2). pp. 293-308. doi:10.1017/cls.2015.13
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cls.2015.13
Abstract
This paper explores the possibilities provided by narrative interviewing for critically assessing claims of success regarding reconciliation policies in Brčko District, Bosnia-Herzegovina. More specifically, the paper argues that such claims of success are based on claims to expertise. Certain understandings of the harm, i.e., the inter-ethnic violence committed during the 1992–1995 war, and of the policies designed to address it, i.e., reconciliation policies based on a logic of multi-ethnic living, gain credence based on the supposed expertise of particular actors. However, knowledge of harm and of the impact of policies designed to address it is produced through the subjectivity of different actors’ positionalities, and therefore assumptions about the figure of “the expert” need to be unsettled. This paper explores the possibilities offered by narrative interviewing and analysis for bringing to the fore the complicated ways in which expertise is produced in certain places at certain times.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | K Law [Moys] > KC International Law K Law [Moys] > KV Europe |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Law and legislation, Human rights | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0829-3201 | ||||||
| Official Date: | August 2015 | ||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 31 December 2015 | ||||||
| Volume: | 30 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 16 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 293-308 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/cls.2015.13 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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