Transformative Justice: Remedying Human Rights Violations Beyond Transition (Transitional Justice) - Softcover

Evans, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 036789548X ISBN 13: 9780367895488

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Transitional justice mechanisms employed in post-conflict and post-authoritarian contexts have largely focused upon individual violations of a narrow set of civil and political rights, as well as the provision of legal and quasi-legal remedies, such as truth commissions, amnesties and prosecutions. In contrast, this book highlights the significance of structural violence in producing and reproducing rights violations. The book further argues that, in order to remedy structural violations of human rights, there is a need to utilise a different toolkit from that typically employed in transitional justice contexts. The book sets out and applies a definition of transformative justice as expanding upon, and providing an alternative to, transitional justice. Focusing on a comparative study of social movements, nongovernmental organisations and trade unions working on land and housing rights in South Africa, and their network relationships, the book argues that networks of this kind make an important contribution to processes advancing transformative justice.

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About the Author

Matthew Evans is a Teaching Fellow in Law, Politics and Sociology at the School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, and Visiting Researcher in Political Studies at the School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036789548X
• ISBN 13: 9780367895488
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152