Transitional Justice, Interdisciplinarity and the State of the 'Field' or 'Non-Field' |
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Authors: | Bell Christine |
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Affiliation: | * Professor of Public International Law, Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Email: c.bell{at}ulster.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | 1Transitional justice appears to be an established field ofscholarship connected to a field of practice on how to dealwith past human rights abuses in societies in transition. Theoriginal focus of transitional justice discourse was that humanrights law requires accountability in transitions, rooted inthe discipline of law. Over time, this focus has been expandedto include a much broader range of mechanisms, goals and inquiriesacross a range of disciplines. In order to probe the currentstate of the field, this article argues against the currentconception of transitional justice as a praxis-based interdisciplinaryfield. It suggests that there is a hidden politics to how transitionaljustice has been constructed as an interdisciplinary field thatobscures tensions between the range of practices and goals thatit now incorporates. |
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