Archiving Justice
Book chapter
Redwood, H. (2023). Archiving Justice. in: Meierhenrich, J., Hinton, A. and Douglas, L. (ed.) THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE Oxford University Press (OUP).
Authors | Redwood, H. |
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Editors | Meierhenrich, J., Hinton, A. and Douglas, L. |
Abstract | This chapter interrogates this link between archives and transitional justice, and idea of justice more generally, in three parts. First I examine the ways in which the archive reinforces core aspects of transitional justice as practice and a set of normative values. This does so by both focusing on the support role that archives play in rendering justice a possibility (and in many cases beckoning a ‘justice to come’)(Derrida 1992; and 2001), and second viewing the archive as itself a site of justice in and of itself. The second section turns to a more critical assessment of the relationship between archives and justice, as I explore the archive’s logics, and drive. Ultimately, this points to the role that archives play in the governance – and disciplining – of community, and shows a concerning synergy between archival practice and the very violence that transitional justice (claims to) confront. The final section looks at practices that might offer a way in which a more transformative vision of archive and community can emerge. This both focuses on what Stewart Motha and Honni van Rijswijk (2016) have called the ‘counter-archive’ and explicitly points to the possibility of alternative archival practices that drawn on an aesthetic approach to the production of knowledge, and community. |
Keywords | Archives, Transitional Justice, Memory, Law, Counter-Archive |
Year | 2023 |
Book title | THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
File | License File description Accepted version File Access Level Open |
ISBN | 9780191774461 |
Publication dates | |
20 Nov 2023 | |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 29 Sep 2020 |
Deposited | 25 Nov 2020 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198704355.013.39 |
https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/8v5vq
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