Difficult Stories that Haunt
Towards Research Otherwise in Transitional Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ulrike Lühe (0000-0002-1954-4388, corresponding author), Erin Baines (0000-0003-2930-5943) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 118-134 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-08 |
| 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/ijae044 |
| OpenAlex | W4406159797 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 16 |
∞ Stories of suffering, loss and injury encountered in transitional justice research are difficult. They generate affective responses of sadness, guilt, shame and, often, denial of responsibility. Difficult stories are also haunting. They reveal ongoing structural injustices, and in their insistence, challenge claims that the past is over and done with. In this article, we argue that engaging with difficult stories as haunting can propel us towards research otherwise. We first demonstrate how Western modes of research governance silence ghosts through the extraction and translation of difficult stories into data. We consider the possibilities of doing research otherwise when difficult stories refuse, demand return, re-story and claim new ways of seeing, being and doing research. Significantly, in a moment of global reckoning, when the promise of ‘never again’ has become a signifier of ‘ever again,’ the calculus and relevance of scholarship in transitional justice is measured by such ‘ghostly matters.’
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Revolution and Rehearsal in the Global South
The performance and persistence of transitional justice and its ways of knowing atrocity
The Epistemic Violence of Transitional Justice
Spirits and social reconstruction after mass violence
Codes and Dignity
The Beginning of an Idea about an End
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |