| Performances of Injustice: The Politics of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Kenya Contributor(s): Lynch, Gabrielle (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108444938 ISBN-13: 9781108444934 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $35.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - African - Political Science | Peace - Political Science | Human Rights |
| Dewey: 967.620 |
| LCCN: 2017053775 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.41" W x 8.98" (1.09 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - East Africa - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Following unprecedented violence in 2007/8, Kenya introduced two classic transitional justice mechanisms: a truth commission and international criminal proceedings. Both are widely believed to have failed, but why? And what do their performances say about contemporary Kenya; the ways in which violent pasts persist; and the shortcomings of transitional justice? Using the lens of performance, this book analyses how transitional justice efforts are incapable of dealing with how unjust and violent pasts actually persist. Gabrielle Lynch reveals the story of an ongoing political struggle requiring substantive socio-economic and political change that transitional justice mechanisms can theoretically recommend, and which they can sometimes help to initiate and inform, but which they cannot implement or create, and can sometimes unintentionally help to reinforce. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lynch, Gabrielle: - 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. |
