Knowing What I Know Now

Youth Experiences of Dictatorship and Transitional Justice in the Gambia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12915434
AutoresAminata Ndow (0000-0002-4870-6833, Harvard University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen15
Número3
Páginas596-615
Fecha de publicación2021-05-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Transitional Justice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1752-7716 • E-ISSN: 1752-7724
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/ijtj/ijab017
OpenAlexW3183280812
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3

This article contributes to the empirical evidence concerning the reception of transitional justice processes and the experiences of youth in contexts of authoritarian rule. It explores how eight students in the Gambia receive, perceive and experience learning about what happened in the past by watching the testimonies told at the Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. Based on conversational interviews, I argue that for the students in this study, the past enters the present as rememory. By recalling their rememories, an imaginative re-construction of the Jammeh past emerges which uncovers how the biopoliticized state functioned in everyday life, how loyalty and obedience to Jammeh was indoctrinated from a young age and how children remember. By paying attention to youth’s rememories and perceptions of the revelations of truth commissions, and the meanings they attribute to these revelations, transitional justice scholars and practitioners can gain a more holistic understanding of how youth experience and make sense of transitional justice processes

Authoritarianism · Commission · Democracy · Dictatorship · Economic Justice · Loyalty · Obedience · Perception · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Transitional justice · Cambodian History and Society · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Psychology · Law · Social Psychology