The politics of methods in transitional justice knowledge production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4034178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ulrike Lühe (0000-0002-1954-4388, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1867-1883 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ia/iiad182 |
| OpenAlex | W4386424454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article is concerned with how practices of knowledge production relate to the international politics of transitional justice (TJ). It argues that quantitative scholarly studies-called for in response to the anecdotal and normative studies that prevailed in early TJ scholarship and which, it is argued, continue to shape TJ sub-fields such as the study of local justice-are themselves committed to the normative framework and the goals of TJ that they seek to provide the tools to challenge. Applying a 'politics of methods' lens, the article foregrounds the interpretive work of surveys and the methodological choices of large-N impact studies which circle these works back to narrowly defined ideas of what TJ ought to be. The conclusions show how these 'politics of methods' contribute to the decontestation of an inherently political choice and practice, and predetermine what policy and practice options are considered useful, relevant and even imaginable. As such they shape that which they claim only to examine. Contributing to both critical methodological debates in International Relations and nascent scholarship on the research-policy-practice nexus in TJ, the analysis provides an under-examined example of the co-constitutive relationship of what is considered to be detached knowledge production and politics
Economic Justice · Economics · Epistemology · Knowledge production · Law and economics · Nexus (standard) · Normative · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Production (economics) · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Transitional justice · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance
Challenges to knowledge-making
Do Truth and Reconciliation Committees Improve Human Rights? Evidence From Africa
Databases of Transitional Justice Mechanisms and Contexts
Bridge to Human Development or Vehicle of Inequality? Transitional Justice and Economic Structures
State-Level Effects of Transitional Justice
The pressures of getting it right
The “Local Turn” in Transitional Justice
Goals and processes
The Dance of Peace and Justice
The salience of symbolic and material elements of transitional justice in peace processes
Interventionary order and its methodologies
Why Do States Adopt Truth Commissions After Transition
In data we trust? A comparison of UCDP GED and Acled conflict events datasets
Does the Choice of Democracy Measure Matter? Comparisons between the Two Leading Democracy Indices, Freedom House and Polity IV
What We Know About Transitional Justice
Accountability by Numbers
The Logic of Transitional Justice and State Repression
Conflict Recurrence and Postconflict Justice
Explaining the Deterrence Effect of Human Rights Prosecutions for Transitional Countries1
Human Rights Prosecutions and Autocratic Survival
Deals with the Devil? Conflict Amnesties, Civil War, and Sustainable Peace
Reforming post‐Communist bureaucracies
Do Truth Commissions Really Improve Democracy
Critical methods in International Relations
Transitional Justice and Theories of Change
Explaining the timeliness of implementation of truth commission recommendations
Old truths and new politics
Retributive or reparative justice? Explaining post-conflict preferences in Kenya
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |