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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Park, Augustine SJ
• Cunneen, Chris
• Porter, Amanda
• Webb, Robert
• Deckert, Antje
• Tauri, Juan

Titel

Transitional justice and decolonization

Ist Teil von

• The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice, 2023, Vol.1, p.402-412

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter problematizes paradigmatic transitional justice in the context of settler colonialism in established liberal democracies. Following the leadership of Indigenous scholars, the chapter mobilizes the concepts of refusal, resurgence, and prefiguration to theorize decolonization and propose principles for radicalizing transitional justice to advance decolonization. The chapter explores existing alternative conceptualizations of transitional justice, i.e., local, victim-/survivor-centric, and transformative justice, to consider how these ideas and practices may enrich thinking on decolonizing transitional justice. This chapter problematizes paradigmatic transitional justice (TJ) in the context of settler colonialism in established liberal democracies. It mobilizes the concepts of refusal, resurgence, and prefiguration to theorize decolonization and propose principles for radicalizing transitional justice to advance decolonization. The chapter explores the limitations of paradigmatic TJ in addressing settler colonialism and offers preliminary proposals to 'radicalize' TJ to contribute to decolonization. Canada has made comprehensive use of TJ mechanisms to address the Indian Residential Schools system. Local TJ is place-based justice, which dovetails with resurgence as place-based. Decolonizing TJ requires internationalizing the justice relationship to prefigure acknowledgement of Indigenous sovereignties. In Australia, there are signs of potentially decolonizing TJ.