Judicial means and political ends: Transitional justice and political trials
There are fascinating parallels and connections between political trials and transitional justice. Both are seen to serve other ends than […]
In the name of ‘rule of law’…
After South Sudan declared its independence from the Republic of the Sudan in 2011, one could read in the international
Reimagining Transitional Justice in Bali
“It’s already the era of demokrasi, you know,” Pak Ketut says, nodding his head in firm approval, stretching out each
Rescuing (cosmopolitan) locals at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
On the 31st December 2014, after twenty years of existence, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) finally ceased operations.
Labors of Memory and the Post-Conflict Economy
During my research on Sierra Leone’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 2003, a group of men in Lunsar invited me
‘Transitional Justice’ under the anthropological microscope
Until the end of this month, Allegra will explore an important emerging theme in legal anthropology, namely ‘transitional justice’. The
NATIONALISM, POLITICS AND THE EVERYDAY IN A PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMP
During the ‘Arab Spring’, one of the most puzzling enigmas of al-Wihdat – a Palestinian refugee camp set up in
“You don’t know me”: Disorientation, Reorientation, and Not Knowing in the Ethnography of Asylum and Refugees
During a long drive in the snow to meet my family for the dubiously-founded yet nonetheless celebratory U.S.-American Thanksgiving, my
The Deportation Corridor. A spatial, institutional and affective state of transit
In the course of the last two decades, the territorial exclusion of unwanted foreigners, constructed as a threat to national
‘Gender, Home & Identity: Nuer repatriation to Southern Sudan’ – Katarzyna Grabska talks about her book
Stories of war, violence, running and survival were a common narrative of many South Sudanese Nuer whom I met first