Time and Temporality in Transitional and Post-Conflict Societies

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-63136-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Implicit conceptions of time associated with progress and linearity have influenced scholars and practitioners in the fields of transitional justice and peacebuilding, but time and temporality have rarely been systematically considered.

Time and Temporality in Transitional and Post-Conflict Societies examines how time is experienced, constructed and used in transitional and post-conflict societies. This collection critically questions linear, transitional justice time and highlights the different temporalities that exist at local and institutional levels through original empirical research.

Presenting empirical and often ethnographic research from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cambodia, Mozambique, Palestine/Israel, Rwanda and South Africa, contributors use a temporal lens to investigate key issues including: transitional justice institutions, peace processes, victimhood, perpetrators, accountability, reparations, forgiveness, reconciliation and memoralisation.

This timely monograph will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers, interested in fields such as political science, international relations, anthropology, transitional justice and conflict resolution. It will also be relevant to conflict resolution and peacebuilding practitioners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mueller-Hirth, Natascha

Rios Oyola, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Temporal perspectives on transitional and post-conflict societies

Natascha Mueller-Hirth & Sandra Rios Oyola

Part I Questioning transitional justice time

2. Time and Reconciliation. Negotiating with ghosts

Valérie Rosoux

3. Transitional justice time: Uncle San, Aunty Yan, and outreach at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

Alexander Laban Hinton

4. Peace Processes and Social Acceleration: The Case of Colombia

Sandra Rios Oyola

Part II Co-existing and conflicting temporalities: institutions and experiences of lived time

5. Anthropological Reflections on Violence and Time in Argentina

Eva van Roekel

6. Negotiating Temporalities of Accountability in Communities in Conflict in Africa

Victor Igreja

7. Still waiting: victim policies, social change and fixed liminality

Natascha Mueller-Hirth

Part III Intergenerational transmission and memorialisation

8. Time to hear the other side: Transitional temporalities and transgenerational narratives in post-genocide Rwanda

Richard Benda

9. Un-Doing Brazil’s dictatorial past

Gisele Iecker De Almeida

10. Ruins, Resistance, and Pluritemporality in Palestine-Israel

Luisa Gandolfo

11. Conclusion: Defusing time bombs: towards an understanding of time and temporality in peacebuilding
Natascha Mueller-Hirth & Sandra Rios Oyola

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Natascha Mueller-Hirth is Lecturer in Sociology at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK

Sandra Rios Oyola is Lecturer in International Studies at Leiden University, The Hague, Netherlands