Gabrielle Lynch

Performances of Injustice

The Politics of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Kenya

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How and why did Kenya's transitional justice efforts fail, and what does this say about the persistence of the past?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 188mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781108426213
• ISBN-10: 1108426212
• Artikelnr.: 50759575

Autorenporträt

Gabrielle Lynch is a Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Warwick, and her research interests include ethnic identities and politics, elections and democratisation, and transitional justice and local reconciliation efforts with a particular focus on Kenya. Gabrielle has published numerous journal articles and book chapters. Her first book, I Say to You: Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya, was published in 2011. Gabrielle is an elected member of council for the British Institute in Eastern Africa, and has written a regular column in Kenya's Saturday Nation since April 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Haunted by Violence: Prologue. A time of violence; 1. Confronting
the past: transitional justice and the politics of time and performance; 2.
Framing the good citizen for orderly elections: the prioritisation of
peace; 3. Enter the International Criminal Court: performing (in) justice;
Part II. A Post-South African Truth Commission: 4. The Truth, Justice, and
Reconciliation Commission: a sense of once-againness; 5. Public hearings:
bringing the audience back in; 6. Truth's grand narrative (part I): of
injustice and suffering; 7. 'It is because your tribe is women': of the
performance of familiar gender roles; 8. Truth's grand narrative (part II):
of injustice and impunity; 9. 'Only talking won't help:' of justice and
reparations; Part III. Familiar Performances: 10. Performed ruptures:
Whither reconciliation.