Transitional Justice

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Abstract

This article explores the concept of transitional justice from a critical geographical perspective. It presents some of the key claims, concerns, and debates within the field. Critiques of the concept and practice of transitional justice that have been mounted from both inside and outside the field are also reviewed. Particular attention is directed to the geography or knowledge production within the field, and to the sometimes developmentalist basis of “transitional justice” practice. While recent edited collections and published works have provided more rigorous theorizations of both the “transitional” and “justice” elements of the concept, this article highlights further opportunities for critical conceptual development, inviting geographical contributions on process of localization, democratization, and liberalization, on legal spaces and on the politics of scale into the vibrant and important contexts currently identified with “transitional justice.”

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Rachel Hughes is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne. Her interests include the politics and geopolitics of memory, and the spatialities of law, specifically the social and political legacies of internationalized tribunals such as The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.

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