‘Too Long a Sacrifice?’: Post-Transitional Justice and the Afterlives of Authoritarianism

2025/01/22 by Cath Collins, Selbi Durdiyeva · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #International Law and Human Rights

paper · doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijae048

openalex publication_date 2025/01/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11

Abstract

ABSTRACT In a field that of late appears beset by crises of confidence, this essay reviews three books that send transitional justice scholarship back to basics. The focus in the books on post-authoritarian settings sheds light on the effects of time on transitional justice expectations, actions and futures. The books also offer rear-view mirror vantage points on the assumptions, teleological and otherwise, that informed early praxis in the field. The common object of interest addressed by these volumes – authoritarian regimes and transitional responses to them, over time – is significant in itself. It also reminds us, firstly, that transitional justice dynamics are not reducible to immediate policy menus, and, secondly, that they do not disappear when intellectual fashions change.

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• 🔟 Last but not least, Cath Collins and Selbi Durdiyeva reviewed three recent books that, like our field, are epistemologically and methodologically rich and diverse, to say nothing of the empirical c [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]

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