There are fascinating parallels and connections between political trials and transitional justice. Both are seen to serve other ends than merely punishing individuals who…
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“It’s already the era of demokrasi, you know,” Pak Ketut says, nodding his head in firm approval, stretching out each syllable of the Indonesianized…
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Until the end of this month, Allegra will explore an important emerging theme in legal anthropology, namely ‘transitional justice’. The term usually refers to…
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The African continent has been at the forefront of experiments with transitional justice. There have been amnesties, truth commissions, criminal trials and supposedly localized…
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In her new book, Kirsten Doughty provides us with an ethnographic account of the paradoxes, contradictions and omissions of remediation processes in post-genocide Rwanda….
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Although Allegra’s editorial team is academically firmly rooted in legal anthropology, this is – we believe – the first explicit collection of new publications…
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What is an academic blog? Who form its audience and who are, or should be, its authors? How does blogging resonate with more ‘serious’…
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I walked out of my bedroom to a table garnished with exotic fruits, freshly pressed juice, bread and coffee. During breakfast in Aidland, I…
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States resort to disappearances to remove unwanted critics or minorities from society. The act of a disappearance often follows a pattern: a group of…
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Anger was abundant in South Africa during the 1990s. After the abolition of Apartheid in 1994, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to…
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Anthropology is quite familiar with enculturation and the informal processes by which culture is constructed and transmitted. Increasingly, however, culture is made and diffused…
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Kimberly Theidon illuminates both the horrific and beautiful complexities of post-conflict reconstruction and transitional justice as it unfolds on the ground via her ethnography,…
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