Maja Davidovic
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maja Davidovic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maja |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidovic |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDOVIĆ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3135-1340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What makes or breaks revisionist states? Ontological security and historical revisionism in Serbia
While state revisionism is well studied in International Relations, historical revisionism as a form of state revisionism has received significantly less attention, particularly in small states who are perceived to have diminished capacity and resources to engage in aggressive revisionist behaviors. This article focuses on denialist historical revisionism whereby political actors deny, trivialize, or minimize the qualification of or responsibilit…
Ontological (In)Security Encounters and the Epistemic Violence of Genocide Denial
While existing scholarship highlights the importance of collectiveidentity as a driver for genocide denial by collective actors suchas states, such analysis typically focuses on the ontological needsof the collective Self without taking into consideration itssignificant Other(s). This article argues for a postcolonialunderstanding of genocide denial as an epistemically violentontological (in)security encounter between interconnected actors.Observ…
Feminist constellations: Conversations about epistemic harm, gender-based violence, and (trying to hold on to) joy in academia
Escaping or Reinforcing Hierarchies? Norm Relations in Transitional Justice
The global project of transitional justice (TJ) traditionally has been packaged in a multi-pillar model with criminal justice, truth recovery, reparations, institutional reform, and memorialization, and the norms they enshrine, seemingly presented as interventions of equivalent status at the level of policy. This article aims to enhance the theorizing on TJ as a “norm cluster” by comparatively examining the relations between the norms found in th…
What Counts as Transitional Justice Scholarship? Citational Recognition and Disciplinary Hierarchies in Theory and Practice
Since its emergence as a field of scholarship and practice, transitional justice has coalesced around a set of mechanisms to deal with a legacy of violence. The “pull” toward mechanisms, institutions, and structures as a means of delivering justice has led to certain kinds of knowledge being recognized as “transitional justice research” in the mainstream. Drawing on the theory of epistemic positioning, we reveal how hierarchies of academic knowle…
The Law of ‘Never Again’: Transitional Justice and the Transformation of the Norm of Non-Recurrence
This article analyses the transformation of guarantees of non-recurrence (GNRs), the least developed pillar of transitional justice (TJ), and sets a legal and conceptual foundation of the norm for TJ theory and practice. It draws out key characteristics of GNRs including the norm’s various contents and contexts, stressing its exceptional future-oriented nature in international law. The article investigates conceptual origins of preventing non-rec…
Reconciling Complexities of Time in Criminal Justice and Transitional Justice
This article analyses complexities of time in transitional justice ( tj ) and categorises the temporal dichotomies of tj processes as timeboundness/timelessness and linearity/circularity, challenging the dominant linear conception of time in the field. Criminal justice, as the most dominant tj pillar, is seen as timebound, battling with the passage of time to avoid justice being denied or delayed. By its procedural nature, criminal justice is les…
Transform or perish? The crisis of transitional justice
Transitional justice seems to be in a crisis. In many respects, it does not fully know what it is.1 The field of transitional justice is still surprisingly under-theorised,2 perhaps partly because
Transformative justice. Remedying human rights violations beyond transition
Mother-Activism before the European Court of Human Rights: Gender sensitivity towards Kurdish mothers and wives in enforced disappearances cases
The Kurdish population in South-Eastern Turkey has been heavily subject to a widespread policy of state-sponsored and state-performed violence, with the predominant strategy being that of enforced disappearances. Those targeted by state agents as enemies and subsequently forcibly disappeared tend to be predominantly male, while their wives and mothers are left behind, often tortured, harassed and threatened, however rarely kidnapped. This interna…
The Law of ‘Never Again’: Transitional Justice and the Transformation of the Norm of Non-Recurrence
This article analyses the transformation of guarantees of non-recurrence (GNRs), the least developed pillar of transitional justice (TJ), and sets a legal and conceptual foundation of the norm for TJ theory and practice. It draws out key characteristics of GNRs including the norm’s various contents and contexts, stressing its exceptional future-oriented nature in international law. The article investigates conceptual origins of preventing non-rec…
Escaping or Reinforcing Hierarchies? Norm Relations in Transitional Justice
The global project of transitional justice (TJ) traditionally has been packaged in a multi-pillar model with criminal justice, truth recovery, reparations, institutional reform, and memorialization, and the norms they enshrine, seemingly presented as interventions of equivalent status at the level of policy. This article aims to enhance the theorizing on TJ as a “norm cluster” by comparatively examining the relations between the norms found in th…
What Counts as Transitional Justice Scholarship? Citational Recognition and Disciplinary Hierarchies in Theory and Practice
Since its emergence as a field of scholarship and practice, transitional justice has coalesced around a set of mechanisms to deal with a legacy of violence. The “pull” toward mechanisms, institutions, and structures as a means of delivering justice has led to certain kinds of knowledge being recognized as “transitional justice research” in the mainstream. Drawing on the theory of epistemic positioning, we reveal how hierarchies of academic knowle…
Reconciling Complexities of Time in Criminal Justice and Transitional Justice
This article analyses complexities of time in transitional justice ( tj ) and categorises the temporal dichotomies of tj processes as timeboundness/timelessness and linearity/circularity, challenging the dominant linear conception of time in the field. Criminal justice, as the most dominant tj pillar, is seen as timebound, battling with the passage of time to avoid justice being denied or delayed. By its procedural nature, criminal justice is les…
Mother-Activism before the European Court of Human Rights: Gender sensitivity towards Kurdish mothers and wives in enforced disappearances cases
The Kurdish population in South-Eastern Turkey has been heavily subject to a widespread policy of state-sponsored and state-performed violence, with the predominant strategy being that of enforced disappearances. Those targeted by state agents as enemies and subsequently forcibly disappeared tend to be predominantly male, while their wives and mothers are left behind, often tortured, harassed and threatened, however rarely kidnapped. This interna…
Transformative justice. Remedying human rights violations beyond transition
Transform or perish? The crisis of transitional justice
Transitional justice seems to be in a crisis. In many respects, it does not fully know what it is.1 The field of transitional justice is still surprisingly under-theorised,2 perhaps partly because
The Law of ‘Never Again’: Transitional Justice and the Transformation of the Norm of Non-Recurrence
This article analyses the transformation of guarantees of non-recurrence (GNRs), the least developed pillar of transitional justice (TJ), and sets a legal and conceptual foundation of the norm for TJ theory and practice. It draws out key characteristics of GNRs including the norm’s various contents and contexts, stressing its exceptional future-oriented nature in international law. The article investigates conceptual origins of preventing non-rec…
Reconciling Complexities of Time in Criminal Justice and Transitional Justice
This article analyses complexities of time in transitional justice ( tj ) and categorises the temporal dichotomies of tj processes as timeboundness/timelessness and linearity/circularity, challenging the dominant linear conception of time in the field. Criminal justice, as the most dominant tj pillar, is seen as timebound, battling with the passage of time to avoid justice being denied or delayed. By its procedural nature, criminal justice is les…
Escaping or Reinforcing Hierarchies? Norm Relations in Transitional Justice
The global project of transitional justice (TJ) traditionally has been packaged in a multi-pillar model with criminal justice, truth recovery, reparations, institutional reform, and memorialization, and the norms they enshrine, seemingly presented as interventions of equivalent status at the level of policy. This article aims to enhance the theorizing on TJ as a “norm cluster” by comparatively examining the relations between the norms found in th…
What Counts as Transitional Justice Scholarship? Citational Recognition and Disciplinary Hierarchies in Theory and Practice
Since its emergence as a field of scholarship and practice, transitional justice has coalesced around a set of mechanisms to deal with a legacy of violence. The “pull” toward mechanisms, institutions, and structures as a means of delivering justice has led to certain kinds of knowledge being recognized as “transitional justice research” in the mainstream. Drawing on the theory of epistemic positioning, we reveal how hierarchies of academic knowle…
Feminist constellations: Conversations about epistemic harm, gender-based violence, and (trying to hold on to) joy in academia
What makes or breaks revisionist states? Ontological security and historical revisionism in Serbia
While state revisionism is well studied in International Relations, historical revisionism as a form of state revisionism has received significantly less attention, particularly in small states who are perceived to have diminished capacity and resources to engage in aggressive revisionist behaviors. This article focuses on denialist historical revisionism whereby political actors deny, trivialize, or minimize the qualification of or responsibilit…
Ontological (In)Security Encounters and the Epistemic Violence of Genocide Denial
While existing scholarship highlights the importance of collectiveidentity as a driver for genocide denial by collective actors suchas states, such analysis typically focuses on the ontological needsof the collective Self without taking into consideration itssignificant Other(s). This article argues for a postcolonialunderstanding of genocide denial as an epistemically violentontological (in)security encounter between interconnected actors.Observ…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economic Justice (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Transitional justice (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (3 works) · Global Security and Public Health (3 works)