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Transitional Justice and Memory in Cambodia - Peter Manning

Transitional Justice and Memory in Cambodia

Beyond the Extraordinary Chambers

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
172 Seiten
2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-08548-3 (ISBN)
CHF 76,75 inkl. MwSt
This book unpicks the way memory is reconstructed through imagination of a national memory, the legal reframing of memories as crimes, and personal bids to locate memories within collective biographies.
Memories of violence, suffering and atrocities in Cambodia are today being pulled in different directions. A range of transitional justice practices have been put to work in the name of redressing, restoring and renewing memory. At the centre of this stage is the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), a hybrid tribunal established to prosecute the leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, under which 1.6 million Cambodians died of hunger or disease or were executed.

This book unpicks the way memory is reconstructed through appeals to a national memory, the legal reframing and coding of memories as crimes, and bids to locate personal memories within collective biographies. Analysing the techniques and interventions of the ECCC, as well as exploring the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the book explores the relationships in which Cambodian communities navigate memories of political violence. This book is essential for understanding transitional justice in Cambodia in, and beyond, the courtroom. Transitional Justice and Memory in Cambodia shows that the governing logic of transitional justice interventions – that societies are unable to 'deal with' memories of atrocity and violence without some form of transitional justice mechanism – neglects the complexity of memory and remembering in post-atrocity contexts and the agency of the subjects to which such mechanisms are addressed.

Drawing on documentary sources, legal transcripts, interviews and participant observation data, the book situates transitional justice processes in Cambodia within a wider context of social and cultural memory politics, examining (old and new) conflicts of memory that have emerged between the varied accounts and uses of the past that exist in Cambodia now. As such, it will appeal to students and scholars in sociology, human rights, law and criminology.

Peter Manning is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bath. Peter has previously lectured in sociology at Liverpool Hope University and at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics, where he was awarded a PhD in 2014.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Transitional justice and memory

Chapter 3. Political violence in Cambodia

Chapter 4. Moving forward through justice

Chapter 5. Memory on trial

Chapter 6. Complementary knowledge

Chapter 7. Victims and perpetrators

Chapter 8. Beyond the tribunal

Chapter 9. Remembering the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Memory Studies: Global Constellations
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 330 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Völkerrecht
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-367-08548-8 / 0367085488
ISBN-13 978-0-367-08548-3 / 9780367085483
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