Alexander Laban Hinton, The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia is a rich ethnographic story of the arrival of transitional justice in Cambodia, the challenges of its development and the successes and failures of its outreach. …
Crystal Parikh. Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. What constitutes “the good life” [3], from who’s imagination does it spring and how does that notion become the rationale for international human rights law? What peoples are excluded or unimagined or are …
Jess Melvin. The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder. Routledge, 2018. Jess Melvin has written a remarkable book. Based …
Addressing the history of racial injustices towards African Americans has been the litmus test of U.S. reconciliation efforts (Campbell, 2009). However, over …
Vincent Drulilolle and Roddy Brett, eds. The Politics of Victimhood in Post-conflict Societies: Comparative and Analytical Perspectives. Palgrave, 2018. This volume seeks …
Norman Saadi Nikro and Sonja Hegasy, eds. The Social Life of Memory. Violence, Trauma, and Testimony in Lebanon and Morocco. Palgrave, 2017. …
The Power of Memory and Violence in Central America. Rachel Hatcher. Australia: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. A couple of years ago, as I …
Timothy Williams and Susanne Buckley-Zistel, eds. Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. …
Jenny Wüstenberg. Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Germany is considered by most a prime example …
The Performance of Memory as Transitional Justice. Eds. S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser M. Ottanelli. Intersentia, 2015. This edited collection examines memory …