What Would Satisfy Us? Taking Stock of Critical Approaches to Transitional Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dustin N Sharp (University of San Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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/ijz018 |
| OpenAlex | W3123525878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 6 |
∞ In recent years, a distinct critical turn in transitional justice scholarship has emerged, seeking to question the naturalness and inevitability of mainstream transitional justice theory and practice and to envision a broader and more holistic project. While in many ways a positive development, this newfound critical enthusiasm risks producing an unwarranted sense of pessimism and failure. This points to the need to better manage expectations as to what ‘success’ looks like even as we try to reimagine what transitional justice could become. To these ends, I draw upon and propose revisions to Robert Cox’s famous distinction between problem-solving and critical theory. To better maintain balance and perspective, I argue for the adoption of an ‘integrated’ approach to transitional justice critique that does more to engage with the difficult tradeoffs, policy choices and contextual realities that would inevitably be associated with efforts to implement an alternative vision of transitional justice
Economic Justice · Economics · Enthusiasm · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Mainstream · Naturalness · Pessimism · Political science · Positive economics · Scholarship · Sociology · Transitional justice · Cambodian History and Society · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Psychology · Law · Social Psychology
Transforming Justice Responses to Non-Recent Institutional Abuses
Decoloniality, identity and the third space
Examining the 'age of apology
Breaking the Transitional Justice Machine
The “Rural Face” of War and Peace in Colombia
Mass Violence, Environmental Harm, and the Limits of Transitional Justice
Disrupting the Transitional Justice Circuit
Trying Just Enough or Promising Too Much? The Problem-Capacity-Nexus in Tunisia’s Transitional Justice Process
Thick accountability in contemporary justice struggles
Transitional Justice Studies
Psychosocial justice and the transformative turn in transitional justice
Beyond context
Land and the limits of liberal legalism
Law, ‘presentist’ agendas, and the making of ‘official’ memory after collective violence
Framing, truth-telling, and the limits of local transitional justice
Interactive Justice in Transitional Justice
Global Models, Victim Disconnect and Demands for International Intervention
Reimagining transitional justice for a less violent, more inclusive world
Memorializing and Prefiguring (In‐)Justices
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |