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Stories of “success” : narrative, expertise, and claims to knowledge

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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 ISSN 0829-3201.

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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
Subjects: K Law [Moys] > KC International Law
K Law [Moys] > KV Europe
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
Dates:
DateEvent
August 2015Published
6 May 2015Available
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
Date of first compliant deposit: 31 December 2015
Date of first compliant Open Access: 31 December 2015

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