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Performances of Injustice

Performances of Injustice

Hardcover

General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1108426212
ISBN13: 9781108426213
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 30 2018
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.93 Width: 7.39 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Following unprecedented violence in 2007/8, Kenya introduced two classic transitional justice mechanisms: a truth commission and international criminal proceedings. Both are widely believed to have failed, but why? And what do their performances say about contemporary Kenya; the ways in which violent pasts persist; and the shortcomings of transitional justice? Using the lens of performance, this book analyses how transitional justice efforts are incapable of dealing with how unjust and violent pasts actually persist. Gabrielle Lynch reveals the story of an ongoing political struggle requiring substantive socio-economic and political change that transitional justice mechanisms can theoretically recommend, and which they can sometimes help to initiate and inform, but which they cannot implement or create, and can sometimes unintentionally help to reinforce.

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