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How "Transitions" Reshaped Human Rights: A Conceptual History of Transitional Justice
In: Human rights quarterly, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 321-367
ISSN: 1085-794X
This article clarifies the origins of the field of transitional justice and its preliminary conceptual boundaries. I argue that the field began to emerge in the late 1980s, as a consequence of new practical conditions that human rights activists faced in countries such as Argentina, where authoritarian regimes had been replaced by more democratic ones. The turn away from "naming and shaming" and toward accountability for past abuse among human rights activists was taken up at the international level, where the focus on political change as "transition to democracy" helped to legitimate those claims to justice that prioritized legal-institutional reforms and responses—such as punishing leaders, vetting abusive security forces, and replacing state secrecy with truth and transparency—over other claims to justice that were oriented toward social justice and redistribution. I end by discussing the many ways in which these initial conceptual boundaries have since been tested and expanded.
How "transitions" reshaped human rights: a conceptual history of transitional justice
In: Human rights quarterly: a comparative and international journal of the social sciences, humanities, and law, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 321-367
ISSN: 0275-0392
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Remembering Sartre
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 231-243
ISSN: 1573-7853
Remembering Sartre
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Band 36, Heft 3
ISSN: 0304-2421
Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente, Jeremi Suri (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003), 367 pp., $29.95 cloth
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 125-127
ISSN: 1747-7093
Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 125-127
ISSN: 0892-6794
Introduction
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 1-1
ISSN: 1747-7093
Third Worldism Redux
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 135-142
ISSN: 1747-7093
Third Worldism Redux
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 135-142
ISSN: 0892-6794
A review essay on books by (1) Ludo De Witte, The Assassination of Lumumba (Ann Wright & Renee Fenby [Trs], New York: Verso, 2001); & (2) David Macey, Frantz Fanon (New York: Picador, 2001). The reviewer of these two books bases her commentary on the notion of Third Worldism as an ideology & failed political practice. Macey's superb biography makes a compelling case for Fanon's humanism & his debt to Sartrean "commitment." De Witte's book, despite its title, is more an examination of neocolonialism & decolonization in Africa than a political biography. Lumumba's murder is viewed through a prism of Congolese political upheaval & Belgian complicity, both of which are painstakingly documented. De Witte's endorsement of Third Worldism as embodied by Lumumba reveals a somewhat dated radicalism; the reviewer prefers the more compelling & complex views on neocolonialism & decolonization articulated in other recent works. She speculates on the legacy of Third Worldism, especially its impact on antiglobalization & Islamic terrorist movements. Reexamination of Fanon & Lumumba is a valuable point of departure for understanding the postcolonial experience in Africa. K. Coddon
The Assassination of Lumumba (Ann Wright & Renee Fenby's Tr)
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 135-142
ISSN: 0892-6794
Frantz Fanon
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 135-142
ISSN: 0892-6794
Introduction
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 1
ISSN: 0892-6794
Introduces a roundtable discussion on the effects of the September 11 (2001) terrorist attacks. Critical thinking about terrorism & the US response is needed.
Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe, Norman M. Naimark (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001), 254 pp., $24.95 cloth. - Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, Jonathan Glover (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 478 pp., $27.95 cloth
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 215-219
ISSN: 1747-7093