Victim Agency, Relational Autonomy and Transitional Justice
Experience of Saturday Mothers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915198 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Güneş Daşlı (0009-0000-2481-1869, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 371-386 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Transitional Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-7716 • E-ISSN: 1752-7724 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ijtj/ijae021 |
| OpenAlex | W4399125767 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
∞ This article explores the political agency of victims and proposes a new concept for understanding complex political victims in violent political contexts. To do so, it first challenges the problematic dichotomy of victim-perpetrator identities in transitional justice, drawing on interdisciplinary studies of agency, victim mobilization and the phenomenon of enforced disappearance. I (re)conceptualize victims’ agency by applying the concept of ‘relational autonomy’ which considers the role of social relations in the agency-building process and highlights relational values that are under-appreciated in the liberal concept of agency. I examine the case of the Saturday Mothers, a victim movement in Turkey, to show how their agency has been re-established through their interaction within this social network, and how this shapes the sense of justice they imagine and practice in this social space
Agency (philosophy · Autonomy · Criminology · Economic Justice · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Transitional justice · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Psychology · Law · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |