The Arts of Transitional Justice

The Art of Transitional Justice examines the relationship between transitional justice and the practices of art associatedwith it. Art, which includes theater, literature, photography, and film, hasbeen integral to the understanding of the issues faced in situations oftransitional justice as well as other issues arising out ofconflict and mass atrocity. The chapters in this volume take up this understandingand its demands of transitional justice in situations in several countries:Afghanistan, Serbia, Srebenica, Rwanda, Northern Ireland, Cambodia, as well asthe experiences of resulting diasporic communities. In doing so, it brings tobear the insights from scholars, civil society groups, and art practitioners, as well as interdisciplinary collaborations.

The Demands of Art in Transitional Justice Processes. - Dispersed Memories: Diaspora, Reconciliation and Healing. - Activism, Public Debate and Temporal
Complexities in Fighting for Transitional Justice in Serbia. - Aesthetic
Approaches to Justice: Addressing Jedwabne. - Theatre and Justice: A Grassroots
Approach to Transitional Justice in Afghanistan. - You are allowed (to be alive!) How art can
give permission. - The Visions of Literary Justice for Survivors of Srebrenica:
Examining the Fictional Narratives of Srebrenica Genocide in Light of the
Insights from Transitional Justice. -
Frames of Genocide: Between performativity and aesthetics, memorials and
archives in the Transitional Justice Process in Rwanda. - The Artistic Imaginary
and Transitional Justice in Northern Ireland. - The Staging of History in
Cambodia. - On the Transformation of Wounds: Pictures as an engine of justice. - Memorial Culture in the former Yugoslavia: The
Mothers of Srebenica and the destruction of artefacts by the ICTY. - The plural
jurisdictions of transitional aesthetics: bearing witness in liminal spaces.