A S J Park
Biographic Data
| ID | 52390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A S J Park |
| GIVEN NAMES | A S J |
| FAMILY NAME | Park |
| SIGNATURE | PARK A S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8418-3999 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Examining the Experiences of Racialized and Indigenous Graduate Students as Emerging Researchers
In this article, we explore the experiences of graduate students as researchers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in the social sciences and humanities in Canada. This analysis is based on 22 semistructured qualitative interviews with BIPOC students and explores their experiences using critical race theory and an analysis of color-blind racism. The participants in our study narrate four dimensions of experience in relation to…
The counter‐reparative impacts of South Africa's reparations gap
This article offers a victim‐centric analysis of reparations relating to apartheid in South Africa. We identify a multi‐dimensional ‘reparations gap’, which refers to the disconnect between victims and the state in relation to reparations, including the meanings attributed to reparations, and the perception, evaluation, and experience of reparations. The reparations gap has had profoundly ‘counter‐reparative’ impacts on the relationship between v…
Settler Colonialism and the South African TRC
In the quarter-century since it began its work, the South African TRC has been endlessly debated. At the same time, a field of study emerged centred on settler colonialism, and settler colonial analyses have become established in transitional justice. South Africa’s TRC, however, has escaped examination through the lens of settler colonialism. Typically, settler colonialism in South Africa is treated as an historical phase; however, recent schola…
Settler Colonialism, Decolonization and Radicalizing Transitional Justice
Although transitional justice has been mobilized to address violence perpetrated under regimes of settler colonialism that are also established liberal democracies, this article theorizes the inability of paradigmatic transitional justice to confront settler colonialism. The liberal teleology of transitional justice risks working to realize the self-supersessionist goal of replacing the colony with a ‘post-colonial’, settler/settled polity. Drawi…
Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Grief
Risk and liberal peace
This paper argues that democratisation is characterised by risk management. Democratisation aims not only to manage the risks to global security believed to emerge from the borderlands. Rather, as a complex of depoliticised strategies, democratisation advances a set of technocratic solutions to administer local populations who are constructed as risky, in particular, prone to conflict and extremism. Yet, efforts to manage risk beget new risks to …
Constituting Omar Khadr
Until 2012, Omar Khadr was both the only former child soldier and Western national left in Guantanamo Bay. Captured by US forces at the age of 15, this Canadian youth would spend more than 40% of his life in US custody during the War on Terror. This article advances two key arguments. First, as a child soldier, Khadr is simultaneously cast as an object of sympathy and suspicion. The construction of Khadr's childhood is animated by a cultural raci…
Introduction
Special Issue Introduction
Peacebuilding, the Rule of Law and the Problem of Culture
The technocratic project of building the rule of law in post-conflict peacebuilding is advanced as a guarantor of liberal peace. This ‘rule of law fable’ that correlates peace with technical institutions of western legal systems recalls the colonial and modernisation ethos to engineer African societies in our own image. As such, as in the case of Sierra Leone, practices of law that do not conform to the interventionary conceptualisation of the ru…
Global Governance, Therapeutic Intervention, and War-Affected Girls
The victimization of girls in armed conflict has garnered increased attention, yet recent scholarship shows that postconflict measures fail to meet girls' unique needs. This article examines gendered discourses employed in programming designed to assist girls following Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, drawing on fieldwork conducted as part of a continuing program of study on peacebuilding in Sierra Leone. Specifically, the article presents a…
Consolidating Peace
The strengthening of rule of law institutions is increasingly recognised as a key component to consolidating peace in post-conflict situations. Ensuring fairness under the law (and the appearance of fairness) whilst expanding access to justice in rural areas has become a chief plank in peacebuilding efforts in Sierra Leone following a decade-long civil conflict born of corrupt mismanagement in this failed post-colonial state. However, in order fo…
Other Inhumane Acts’
The decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone gained international notoriety for the widespread use of child soldiers, and the sexual abuse and ‘forced’ marriage of girl soldiers. For the first time in international legal history, ‘forced marriage’ is being prosecuted as a ‘crime against humanity’ in Sierra Leone’s post-conflict ‘Special Court’. This represents an important step in advancing the human rights of girls, and follows a growing trend in i…
Other Inhumane Acts’
The decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone gained international notoriety for the widespread use of child soldiers, and the sexual abuse and ‘forced’ marriage of girl soldiers. For the first time in international legal history, ‘forced marriage’ is being prosecuted as a ‘crime against humanity’ in Sierra Leone’s post-conflict ‘Special Court’. This represents an important step in advancing the human rights of girls, and follows a growing trend in i…
Settler Colonialism, Decolonization and Radicalizing Transitional Justice
Although transitional justice has been mobilized to address violence perpetrated under regimes of settler colonialism that are also established liberal democracies, this article theorizes the inability of paradigmatic transitional justice to confront settler colonialism. The liberal teleology of transitional justice risks working to realize the self-supersessionist goal of replacing the colony with a ‘post-colonial’, settler/settled polity. Drawi…
Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Grief
Peacebuilding, the Rule of Law and the Problem of Culture
The technocratic project of building the rule of law in post-conflict peacebuilding is advanced as a guarantor of liberal peace. This ‘rule of law fable’ that correlates peace with technical institutions of western legal systems recalls the colonial and modernisation ethos to engineer African societies in our own image. As such, as in the case of Sierra Leone, practices of law that do not conform to the interventionary conceptualisation of the ru…
Settler Colonialism and the South African TRC
In the quarter-century since it began its work, the South African TRC has been endlessly debated. At the same time, a field of study emerged centred on settler colonialism, and settler colonial analyses have become established in transitional justice. South Africa’s TRC, however, has escaped examination through the lens of settler colonialism. Typically, settler colonialism in South Africa is treated as an historical phase; however, recent schola…
Global Governance, Therapeutic Intervention, and War-Affected Girls
The victimization of girls in armed conflict has garnered increased attention, yet recent scholarship shows that postconflict measures fail to meet girls' unique needs. This article examines gendered discourses employed in programming designed to assist girls following Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, drawing on fieldwork conducted as part of a continuing program of study on peacebuilding in Sierra Leone. Specifically, the article presents a…
Constituting Omar Khadr
Until 2012, Omar Khadr was both the only former child soldier and Western national left in Guantanamo Bay. Captured by US forces at the age of 15, this Canadian youth would spend more than 40% of his life in US custody during the War on Terror. This article advances two key arguments. First, as a child soldier, Khadr is simultaneously cast as an object of sympathy and suspicion. The construction of Khadr's childhood is animated by a cultural raci…
Other Inhumane Acts’
The decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone gained international notoriety for the widespread use of child soldiers, and the sexual abuse and ‘forced’ marriage of girl soldiers. For the first time in international legal history, ‘forced marriage’ is being prosecuted as a ‘crime against humanity’ in Sierra Leone’s post-conflict ‘Special Court’. This represents an important step in advancing the human rights of girls, and follows a growing trend in i…
Consolidating Peace
The strengthening of rule of law institutions is increasingly recognised as a key component to consolidating peace in post-conflict situations. Ensuring fairness under the law (and the appearance of fairness) whilst expanding access to justice in rural areas has become a chief plank in peacebuilding efforts in Sierra Leone following a decade-long civil conflict born of corrupt mismanagement in this failed post-colonial state. However, in order fo…
Global Governance, Therapeutic Intervention, and War-Affected Girls
The victimization of girls in armed conflict has garnered increased attention, yet recent scholarship shows that postconflict measures fail to meet girls' unique needs. This article examines gendered discourses employed in programming designed to assist girls following Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, drawing on fieldwork conducted as part of a continuing program of study on peacebuilding in Sierra Leone. Specifically, the article presents a…
Peacebuilding, the Rule of Law and the Problem of Culture
The technocratic project of building the rule of law in post-conflict peacebuilding is advanced as a guarantor of liberal peace. This ‘rule of law fable’ that correlates peace with technical institutions of western legal systems recalls the colonial and modernisation ethos to engineer African societies in our own image. As such, as in the case of Sierra Leone, practices of law that do not conform to the interventionary conceptualisation of the ru…
Introduction
Special Issue Introduction
Risk and liberal peace
This paper argues that democratisation is characterised by risk management. Democratisation aims not only to manage the risks to global security believed to emerge from the borderlands. Rather, as a complex of depoliticised strategies, democratisation advances a set of technocratic solutions to administer local populations who are constructed as risky, in particular, prone to conflict and extremism. Yet, efforts to manage risk beget new risks to …
Constituting Omar Khadr
Until 2012, Omar Khadr was both the only former child soldier and Western national left in Guantanamo Bay. Captured by US forces at the age of 15, this Canadian youth would spend more than 40% of his life in US custody during the War on Terror. This article advances two key arguments. First, as a child soldier, Khadr is simultaneously cast as an object of sympathy and suspicion. The construction of Khadr's childhood is animated by a cultural raci…
Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Grief
Settler Colonialism, Decolonization and Radicalizing Transitional Justice
Although transitional justice has been mobilized to address violence perpetrated under regimes of settler colonialism that are also established liberal democracies, this article theorizes the inability of paradigmatic transitional justice to confront settler colonialism. The liberal teleology of transitional justice risks working to realize the self-supersessionist goal of replacing the colony with a ‘post-colonial’, settler/settled polity. Drawi…
Settler Colonialism and the South African TRC
In the quarter-century since it began its work, the South African TRC has been endlessly debated. At the same time, a field of study emerged centred on settler colonialism, and settler colonial analyses have become established in transitional justice. South Africa’s TRC, however, has escaped examination through the lens of settler colonialism. Typically, settler colonialism in South Africa is treated as an historical phase; however, recent schola…
Examining the Experiences of Racialized and Indigenous Graduate Students as Emerging Researchers
In this article, we explore the experiences of graduate students as researchers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in the social sciences and humanities in Canada. This analysis is based on 22 semistructured qualitative interviews with BIPOC students and explores their experiences using critical race theory and an analysis of color-blind racism. The participants in our study narrate four dimensions of experience in relation to…
The counter‐reparative impacts of South Africa's reparations gap
This article offers a victim‐centric analysis of reparations relating to apartheid in South Africa. We identify a multi‐dimensional ‘reparations gap’, which refers to the disconnect between victims and the state in relation to reparations, including the meanings attributed to reparations, and the perception, evaluation, and experience of reparations. The reparations gap has had profoundly ‘counter‐reparative’ impacts on the relationship between v…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (4 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sierra leone (4 works)