Leigh A Payne
Biographic Data
| ID | 306738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leigh A Payne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leigh A |
| FAMILY NAME | Payne |
| SIGNATURE | PAYNE L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0770-3919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The legal mobilization of the right against rights
Confessions to intimate violence: Farc testimonies to sexual violations in the Colombian conflict
This article examines a rare event: confessions to “intimate” acts of sexual violence by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Using a dramaturgical approach, it explores the transformation of “confessional acts” from silence and denial to excuses to eventual remorse and condemnation. It explains the shifts in the FARC’s narratives (scripts) in terms of who performed them (actors), when and where (stage and timing), audiences’ reacti…
Justice from below: Corporate accountability in Argentina
Argentina has taken a protagonist role in corporate accountability for crimes against humanity committed during the past authoritarian regime (1976-1983). This study examines in-depth the factors that allowed for those advances. It highlights the role of victims, human rights groups, and their advocates in demanding justice for gross human rights violations perpetrated by an alliance of economic and state actors involved in them. It considers the…
Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below: Deploying Archimedes' Lever
Bruno Tesch was tried and executed for his company's Zyklon B gas used in Nazi Germany's extermination camps. This book examines this trial and the more than 300 other economic actors who faced prosecution for the Holocaust's crimes against humanity. It further tracks and analyses similar transitional justice mechanisms for holding economic actors accountable for human rights violations in dictatorships and armed conflict: international, foreign,…
Violent Democracies in Latin America
The Right-Wing Backlash in Brazil and Beyond
Who is entitled to have rights? This essay examines how right-wing movements attempt to prevent individuals, especially women and members of LGBT groups, from accessing equal rights through the use of terms such as “moral worth” and “family values.” At the core of our discussion of the backlash against social rights in Latin America is the need to compare and contrast the case examined here with similar movements outside the region. The vast ente…
Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia
In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, a group of Wari' Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari' announced, "We touched their bodies!" Meanwhile the whites reported to their own people that "the region's most warlike tribe has entered the pacification phase!" Initially published in Brazil, Strange Enemies …
Corporate Complicity in the Brazilian Dictatorship
Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below: Deploying Archimedes' Lever
Overcoming Blindness in the Study of Perpetrators
Walking my four-year-old son down State Street to the Madison Children's Museum many years ago, he announced, “I don't like him.” He was referring to an unkempt homeless man in an old dirty overcoa
Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past
The foundation of a stable democracy in Spain was built on a settled account: an agreement that both sides were equally guilty of violence, a consensus to avoid contention, and a pact of oblivion as t
Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past: Perpetrators' Confessions and Victim Exhumations
Preposterous Denial
Because few perpetrators would want to be associated with past violence, denial is one of the most commonly practiced forms of testimony. Denial takes a particularly preposterous form when perpetrators are confronted with unequivocal evidence. Even when perpetrators are protected legally from prosecution, they tend to deny and cover up their violent past. This chapter follows some outlandish denials made by perpetrators when they encounter family…
Corporate Complicity in International Human Rights Violations
Two literatures—business and human rights and transitional justice—can be usefully combined to consider the issue of corporate complicity in past human rights violations in dictatorships and armed conflicts. But although the transitional justice literature emphasizes the positive role that international pressure plays in advancing justice, the business and human rights literature identifies international constraints in the area of corporate abuse…
Overcoming Impunity: Pathways to Accountability in Latin America
How and why do democratic governments overcome amnesty laws and cultures of impunity to allow for trials for past human rights violations? To confront this question, we first identify widespread agreement on four key factors associated with the degree of accountability in a new democracy: civil society demand, domestic judicial leadership, the absence of veto players and international pressure. We then outline the interactions among those factors…
Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability: Comparative and International Perspectives
The Justice Balance: When Transitional Justice Improves Human Rights and Democracy
Evidence from the Transitional Justice Data Base reveals which transitional justice mechanisms and combinations of mechanisms positively or negatively affect human rights and democracy. This article demonstrates that specific combinations of mechanisms—trials and amnesties; and trials, amnesties, and truth commissions—generate improvements in those two political goals. The findings support a justice balance approach to transitional justice: trial…
When Truth Commissions Improve Human Rights
Most studies of truth commissions assert their positive role in improving human rights. A first wave of research made these claims based on qualitative analysis of a single truth commission or a small number of cases. Thirty years of experience with truth commissions and dozens of examples allow cross-national statistical studies to assess these findings. Two recent studies undertake that project. Their findings, which are summarized in this arti…
Transitional justice in the world, 1970-2007: Insights from a new dataset
This article presents a new dataset of transitional justice mechanisms utilized worldwide from 1970-2007. These data complement the growing body of quantitative and comparative analyses of transitional justice. This article summarizes three important contributions made by the dataset. First, it includes five transitional justice mechanisms (trials, truth commissions, amnesties, reparations, and lustration policies), allowing scholars to avoid man…
Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation
Paradoxes of Punishment
Keally McBride’s Punishment and Political Order explores a paradox: punishment potentially reinforces and undermines legitimate democratic authority. McBride works through this paradox using a range of texts and devices. She draws her arguments from analysis of fictional texts, specifically Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony,” and political philosophy, including Locke, Nietzsche, Grotius, Bentham, Foucault, and Agamben. She employs examples of punishme…
Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda
Collaborators and the politics of memory in Chile
Uncivil Movements: The Armed Right Wing and Democracy in Latin America
Social Change and Labor Unrest in Brazil Since 1945
The Right-Wing Backlash in Brazil and Beyond
Who is entitled to have rights? This essay examines how right-wing movements attempt to prevent individuals, especially women and members of LGBT groups, from accessing equal rights through the use of terms such as “moral worth” and “family values.” At the core of our discussion of the backlash against social rights in Latin America is the need to compare and contrast the case examined here with similar movements outside the region. The vast ente…
When Truth Commissions Improve Human Rights
Most studies of truth commissions assert their positive role in improving human rights. A first wave of research made these claims based on qualitative analysis of a single truth commission or a small number of cases. Thirty years of experience with truth commissions and dozens of examples allow cross-national statistical studies to assess these findings. Two recent studies undertake that project. Their findings, which are summarized in this arti…
Transitional justice in the world, 1970-2007: Insights from a new dataset
This article presents a new dataset of transitional justice mechanisms utilized worldwide from 1970-2007. These data complement the growing body of quantitative and comparative analyses of transitional justice. This article summarizes three important contributions made by the dataset. First, it includes five transitional justice mechanisms (trials, truth commissions, amnesties, reparations, and lustration policies), allowing scholars to avoid man…
Working Class Strategies in the Transition to Democracy in Brazil
The Brazilian labor movement played an instrumental role in the demise of Brazil's authoritarian regime. As one of the few highly organized and institutionalized social actors in Brazil in the late 1970s, the labor movement led massive strikes, demonstrations, and rallies protesting the military government's policies and demanding a return to democracy.' This article examines how organized labor in Brazil articulated and defended its interests in…
Overcoming Impunity: Pathways to Accountability in Latin America
How and why do democratic governments overcome amnesty laws and cultures of impunity to allow for trials for past human rights violations? To confront this question, we first identify widespread agreement on four key factors associated with the degree of accountability in a new democracy: civil society demand, domestic judicial leadership, the absence of veto players and international pressure. We then outline the interactions among those factors…
Corporate Complicity in International Human Rights Violations
Two literatures—business and human rights and transitional justice—can be usefully combined to consider the issue of corporate complicity in past human rights violations in dictatorships and armed conflicts. But although the transitional justice literature emphasizes the positive role that international pressure plays in advancing justice, the business and human rights literature identifies international constraints in the area of corporate abuse…
Confessions to intimate violence: Farc testimonies to sexual violations in the Colombian conflict
This article examines a rare event: confessions to “intimate” acts of sexual violence by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Using a dramaturgical approach, it explores the transformation of “confessional acts” from silence and denial to excuses to eventual remorse and condemnation. It explains the shifts in the FARC’s narratives (scripts) in terms of who performed them (actors), when and where (stage and timing), audiences’ reacti…
Collaborators and the politics of memory in Chile
Working Class Strategies in the Transition to Democracy in Brazil
The Brazilian labor movement played an instrumental role in the demise of Brazil's authoritarian regime. As one of the few highly organized and institutionalized social actors in Brazil in the late 1970s, the labor movement led massive strikes, demonstrations, and rallies protesting the military government's policies and demanding a return to democracy.' This article examines how organized labor in Brazil articulated and defended its interests in…
Business and Democracy in Latin America
Business interests, dictatorship, and democracy in Argentina / Carlos H. Acuña -- Perceptions by business leaders and the transition to democracy in Chile / Ernest Bartell -- The private sector and the public transcript : the political mobilization of business in Bolivia / Catherine M. Conaghan -- From fragile crystal to solid rock : the formation and consolidation of a business peak association in Peru / Francisco Durand -- Mexican business and …
Social Change and Labor Unrest in Brazil Since 1945
Collaborators and the politics of memory in Chile
Uncivil Movements: The Armed Right Wing and Democracy in Latin America
Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda
Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation
Paradoxes of Punishment
Keally McBride’s Punishment and Political Order explores a paradox: punishment potentially reinforces and undermines legitimate democratic authority. McBride works through this paradox using a range of texts and devices. She draws her arguments from analysis of fictional texts, specifically Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony,” and political philosophy, including Locke, Nietzsche, Grotius, Bentham, Foucault, and Agamben. She employs examples of punishme…
The Justice Balance: When Transitional Justice Improves Human Rights and Democracy
Evidence from the Transitional Justice Data Base reveals which transitional justice mechanisms and combinations of mechanisms positively or negatively affect human rights and democracy. This article demonstrates that specific combinations of mechanisms—trials and amnesties; and trials, amnesties, and truth commissions—generate improvements in those two political goals. The findings support a justice balance approach to transitional justice: trial…
When Truth Commissions Improve Human Rights
Most studies of truth commissions assert their positive role in improving human rights. A first wave of research made these claims based on qualitative analysis of a single truth commission or a small number of cases. Thirty years of experience with truth commissions and dozens of examples allow cross-national statistical studies to assess these findings. Two recent studies undertake that project. Their findings, which are summarized in this arti…
Transitional justice in the world, 1970-2007: Insights from a new dataset
This article presents a new dataset of transitional justice mechanisms utilized worldwide from 1970-2007. These data complement the growing body of quantitative and comparative analyses of transitional justice. This article summarizes three important contributions made by the dataset. First, it includes five transitional justice mechanisms (trials, truth commissions, amnesties, reparations, and lustration policies), allowing scholars to avoid man…
Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability: Comparative and International Perspectives
Overcoming Impunity: Pathways to Accountability in Latin America
How and why do democratic governments overcome amnesty laws and cultures of impunity to allow for trials for past human rights violations? To confront this question, we first identify widespread agreement on four key factors associated with the degree of accountability in a new democracy: civil society demand, domestic judicial leadership, the absence of veto players and international pressure. We then outline the interactions among those factors…
Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past
The foundation of a stable democracy in Spain was built on a settled account: an agreement that both sides were equally guilty of violence, a consensus to avoid contention, and a pact of oblivion as t
Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past: Perpetrators' Confessions and Victim Exhumations
Preposterous Denial
Because few perpetrators would want to be associated with past violence, denial is one of the most commonly practiced forms of testimony. Denial takes a particularly preposterous form when perpetrators are confronted with unequivocal evidence. Even when perpetrators are protected legally from prosecution, they tend to deny and cover up their violent past. This chapter follows some outlandish denials made by perpetrators when they encounter family…
Corporate Complicity in International Human Rights Violations
Two literatures—business and human rights and transitional justice—can be usefully combined to consider the issue of corporate complicity in past human rights violations in dictatorships and armed conflicts. But although the transitional justice literature emphasizes the positive role that international pressure plays in advancing justice, the business and human rights literature identifies international constraints in the area of corporate abuse…
Overcoming Blindness in the Study of Perpetrators
Walking my four-year-old son down State Street to the Madison Children's Museum many years ago, he announced, “I don't like him.” He was referring to an unkempt homeless man in an old dirty overcoa
Corporate Complicity in the Brazilian Dictatorship
Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below: Deploying Archimedes' Lever
Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below: Deploying Archimedes' Lever
Bruno Tesch was tried and executed for his company's Zyklon B gas used in Nazi Germany's extermination camps. This book examines this trial and the more than 300 other economic actors who faced prosecution for the Holocaust's crimes against humanity. It further tracks and analyses similar transitional justice mechanisms for holding economic actors accountable for human rights violations in dictatorships and armed conflict: international, foreign,…
Violent Democracies in Latin America
The Right-Wing Backlash in Brazil and Beyond
Who is entitled to have rights? This essay examines how right-wing movements attempt to prevent individuals, especially women and members of LGBT groups, from accessing equal rights through the use of terms such as “moral worth” and “family values.” At the core of our discussion of the backlash against social rights in Latin America is the need to compare and contrast the case examined here with similar movements outside the region. The vast ente…
Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia
In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, a group of Wari' Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari' announced, "We touched their bodies!" Meanwhile the whites reported to their own people that "the region's most warlike tribe has entered the pacification phase!" Initially published in Brazil, Strange Enemies …
Justice from below: Corporate accountability in Argentina
Argentina has taken a protagonist role in corporate accountability for crimes against humanity committed during the past authoritarian regime (1976-1983). This study examines in-depth the factors that allowed for those advances. It highlights the role of victims, human rights groups, and their advocates in demanding justice for gross human rights violations perpetrated by an alliance of economic and state actors involved in them. It considers the…
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