ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Transitional Justice, Authoritarianism, Controlled Vocabulary
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Trauma, tesimony, and transiional jusice anth222 lecture notes. A plaform for the state to present its coming to terms of historical events of repression. A source to come to terms of the crimes of the state. The courtroom presentaion of he results of a formal criminal invesigaion into wrongdoing by an overthrown authoritarian government is a form of collecive public ritual that constructs a shared past. It is a way of deining and seing limits on the history of state-sponsored violence. I cannot describe to you how i feel when i experience injusice, my own or someone else"s its all the same. It goes right through me, huring body and soul. Key features of canada"s tc: not transiional jusice in the sense of a change from authoritarian to a democraic rule. Trc an outcome of liigaion, not of a widely recognized conlict.