Gabrielle Lynch

Performances of Injustice

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Produktbeschreibung

How and why did Kenya's transitional justice efforts fail, and what does this say about the persistence of the past?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781108444934
• ISBN-10: 1108444938
• Artikelnr.: 50762937

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.