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Dealing with Wars and Dictatorships

Legal Concepts and Categories in Action

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Liora Israël

    1. Centre Maurice Halbwachs, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France

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  2. Guillaume Mouralis

    1. Institut des sciences sociales du politi, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, Nanterre Cedex, France

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  • Examines what is today uncritically called “transitional justice” and how it has been described and understood since World War Two
  • Focuses on the legal and political concepts used in everyday life and/or the ones mobilized in the academic work
  • Examines the circulation of categories, know-how, arguments, among countries and periods
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. General Introduction

    • Liora Israël, Guillaume Mouralis
    Pages 1-20

  3. Life and Death of Concepts and Categories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. “Épuration”: History of a Word

      • Alya Aglan, Emmanuelle Loyer
      Pages 23-38

    3. Humanity Seized by International Criminal Justice

      • Sara Liwerant
      Pages 39-58

    4. Dealing with Collaboration in Belgium After the Second World War: From Activism to Collaboration and Incivism

      • Dirk Luyten
      Pages 59-76

    5. Transitional Justice as Universal Narrative

      • Jon Elster
      Pages 77-81

    6. The Invention of “Transitional Justice” in the 1990s

      • Guillaume Mouralis
      Pages 83-100

  4. Implementation of Categories and Savoir-Faire

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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About this book

Democratic ‘transitions’ in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and South Africa, often studied under the conceptual rubric of ‘transitional justice’, have involved the formation of public policies toward the past that are multifaceted and often ambitious. Recent scholarship rarely questions the concepts and categories transposed from one country to another. This is true both in the language of political life and in the social sciences examining past-oriented public policy, especially policy toward ‘ethnic cleansing’ and the line between the language of political practice, legal analysis, and scholarly discourse has been quite porous. This book examines how these phenomena have been described and understood by focusing recent processes, such as the advent of international criminal justice, in relation to previous postwar and recent purges. By crossing disciplinary approaches and periods, the authors pay attention to three main aspects: the legal or political concepts used (and/or the ones mobilized in the academic work); the circulation of categories, know-how, and arguments; the different levels that can shed light on transitions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre Maurice Halbwachs, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France

    Liora Israël

  • Institut des sciences sociales du politi, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, Nanterre Cedex, France

    Guillaume Mouralis

About the editors

Liora Israël is a sociologist at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and assistant director of the Centre Maurice Halbwachs, Paris. Guillaume Mouralis is an historian and sociologist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and a member of the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.

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