Robyn Gill-Leslie
Biographic Data
| ID | 6693722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robyn Gill-Leslie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill-Leslie |
| SIGNATURE | GILL-LESLIE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7501-6328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Finding Pathways Towards Repair After Atrocity: Encounters Between the Body, the Spectral and the Forensic
Centuries of colonial and apartheid rule have left South Africa with a landscape of violent histories and hundreds of missing and dead. This article extends current research framed inside critical forensics, arguing that encounters between the spectral, the body and the forensic generate productive, layered meaning‐making—as distinct from knowledge production—in the search for repair inside landscapes of historical and ongoing violence. What offe…
‘ … A Substantial Part of the Trauma Was Caused by an Accidental Fall … ’: Liminal spaces and post-apartheid accountability in South Africa
How bodies challenge disciplinary binaries: Re-examining law and the arts inside the Marikana Commission of Inquiry
The field of transitional justice exemplifies the ‘law and ... ’ approach to interdisciplinarity, in the way it has welcomed the arts as a critical counterpoint to legal form. This article challenges conventional notions of interdisciplinarity in this field, claiming that the maintenance of rigid disciplinary boundaries between the law and the arts results in pigeon-holing creativity as a critical foil for the law; and ignoring law’s internal cap…
Breaking cycles of subjugation through bodily performance: Lived experience inside legal processes at the Marikana Commission of Inquiry
On 16th August 2012, the South African Police Service fired live ammunition into a crowd of striking mineworkers, killing 34 men and severely wounding others. Subsequently known as the Marikana massacre, the Marikana Commission of Inquiry was soon instituted to uncover the ‘truth’ about what had happened. This article suggests that such linear attempts at truth-finding excise bodily rhythms, resulting in a truth-finding exercise that risks redund…
The Body Inside the Art and the Law of Marikana: A Case for Corporeality
∞ This article positions the Marikana Commission of Inquiry as a transitional justice moment for South Africa. Using aesthetic and affect theory, the article examines instances of bodily engagement at this Commission and in the art related to it. The resultant foregrounding of physicality reveals the possibility of both resistance and conformity that has been overlooked in current arts and transitional justice literature. Such resistance and conf…
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The Body Inside the Art and the Law of Marikana: A Case for Corporeality
∞ This article positions the Marikana Commission of Inquiry as a transitional justice moment for South Africa. Using aesthetic and affect theory, the article examines instances of bodily engagement at this Commission and in the art related to it. The resultant foregrounding of physicality reveals the possibility of both resistance and conformity that has been overlooked in current arts and transitional justice literature. Such resistance and conf…
Breaking cycles of subjugation through bodily performance: Lived experience inside legal processes at the Marikana Commission of Inquiry
On 16th August 2012, the South African Police Service fired live ammunition into a crowd of striking mineworkers, killing 34 men and severely wounding others. Subsequently known as the Marikana massacre, the Marikana Commission of Inquiry was soon instituted to uncover the ‘truth’ about what had happened. This article suggests that such linear attempts at truth-finding excise bodily rhythms, resulting in a truth-finding exercise that risks redund…
How bodies challenge disciplinary binaries: Re-examining law and the arts inside the Marikana Commission of Inquiry
The field of transitional justice exemplifies the ‘law and ... ’ approach to interdisciplinarity, in the way it has welcomed the arts as a critical counterpoint to legal form. This article challenges conventional notions of interdisciplinarity in this field, claiming that the maintenance of rigid disciplinary boundaries between the law and the arts results in pigeon-holing creativity as a critical foil for the law; and ignoring law’s internal cap…
‘ … A Substantial Part of the Trauma Was Caused by an Accidental Fall … ’: Liminal spaces and post-apartheid accountability in South Africa
Finding Pathways Towards Repair After Atrocity: Encounters Between the Body, the Spectral and the Forensic
Centuries of colonial and apartheid rule have left South Africa with a landscape of violent histories and hundreds of missing and dead. This article extends current research framed inside critical forensics, arguing that encounters between the spectral, the body and the forensic generate productive, layered meaning‐making—as distinct from knowledge production—in the search for repair inside landscapes of historical and ongoing violence. What offe…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law in Society and Culture (3 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works) · Commission (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social science (2 works)