I was celebrating the justice that the victims got
Exploring irreconciliation among Bangladeshi human rights activists in London
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2254141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacco Visser (0000-0001-9473-2963, Aarhus University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | 65-78 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9655.13754 |
| OpenAlex | W4225400547 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
This essay investigates transnational human rights activist networks seeking justice for war crimes committed during the Bangladesh War of 1971, especially in light of the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Focusing on activists in London, it demonstrates the need to engage with transitional justice initiatives discursively and ethnographically in order to avoid losing sight of the ways in which uses of human rights concepts can veil power dimensions through universalist legalistic abstractions. The essay explores engagements with atrocities of the war by mapping the travel and uses of human rights tropes to articulate claims of justice. It showcases how in addressing the violence of the Bangladesh War, victor justice and punishment are emphasized while futures are imagined in which enemies no longer exist. In the examples, a language of justice is employed to call for prosecution, but justice is reframed so that it is equated with the impossibility of reconciling people on opposing sides during the war
Criminology · Economic Justice · Human rights · Impossibility · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Transitional justice · Tribunal · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
A History of Bangladesh
The Life of the Law
The Holocaust and memory in the global age
Moving Testimony
Harmony Ideology
The Human Condition
From dirty war to genocide
Bangladesh’s “Father of the Nation” and the Transnational Politics of Memory
Political Dynasty Formation in Bangladesh
Bangladesh in 2014
The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh
The Osman Dynasty
Multidirectional Memory
The Spectral Wound
Reconciliation and remembering
Abortive Rituals
Unwelcome Narratives
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On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness
Watching the International Crimes Tribunal from London
Desh-Bidesh
Anthropological Studies of National Reconciliation Processes
On having Voice and Being Heard
Never again
Keeping connected
Contested memories
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |