Victims in Focus

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ID12915009
AuthorsJemima García-Godos (University of Oslo, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume10
Issue2
Pages350-358
Publication date2016-02-25
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Transitional Justice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1752-7716 • E-ISSN: 1752-7724
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/ijtj/ijv038
OpenAlexW2318082315
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Turns or shifts of attention inviting us to look at social phenomena from a different angle are common in the social sciences. As students or scholars we have most likely heard of at least one of the many ‘turns’ experienced over the past decades: the cultural turn, the spatial turn, the historical turn, the linguistic turn, the quantitative turn, the philosophical turn, the ontological turn and more. Some of these turns pass rather quickly, as a fashion soon to be changed. Other turns are welcomed by parts of the research community and resisted by others, resulting in productive controversies and debates. On occasion, a turn might be embraced and stay, leaving a lasting mark on the discipline or field that adopts it, maybe even changing the course of the research field. In this essay, I want to explore the idea of a victims-turn in transitional justice: Is this turn ‘real’? How did it come about? What are the implications of a victims-turn for transitional justice as a field of research and practice? Prompting me to reflect on these issues are the three volumes reviewed here, which form part of an ongoing intellectual trend placing victims and victims’ rights in focus

Cultural turn · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Focus (optics · Linguistic turn · Political science · Social justice · Social science · Sociology · Transitional justice · Turn (biochemistry · Turn-taking · Cambodian History and Society · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Political Conflict and Governance · Law

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