The justice facade : trials of transition in Cambodia

The justice facade : trials of transition in Cambodia / Alexander Laban Hinton.

For survivors of the brutal Khmer Rouge Regime, western instruments of justice are small plasters on deep wounds. In Hinton's account of the subsequent international tribunal, only traditional ceremony, ritual, and unmediated dialogue can provide true healing.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hinton, Alexander Laban (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Parti communiste du Kampuchea > Trials, litigation, etc.
Parti communiste du Kampuchea
Transitional justice > Cambodia.
Genocide > Sociological aspects.
Trials (Crimes against humanity) > Cambodia.
Trials (Genocide) > Cambodia.
War crime trials > Cambodia.
Justice, Administration of > Cambodia.
Genocide > Cambodia.
Humanitarian intervention > Cambodia.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
War crime trials
Trials (Genocide)
Trials (Crimes against humanity)
Genocide > Sociological aspects
Genocide
Humanitarian intervention
Justice, Administration of
Transitional justice
Jurisprudence & general issues.
Law.
Cambodia
Trials, litigation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Uncle San and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
  • Introduction: The transitional justice imaginary
  • Progression (Cambodia's three transitions)
  • Time (the Khmer Institute of Democracy)
  • Space (Center for Social Development and the Public Sphere)
  • Aesthtics (Theary Sang, Vann Nath, and victim participation)
  • Performance (Reach Sambath, public affairs, and "Justice Trouble")
  • Discipline (Uncle Meng and the trials of the foreign)
  • Subjectivity (DC-Cam and the ECCC outreach tour)
  • Normativity (civil party testimony)
  • Disposition (Youk Chhang, documenter and survivor)
  • ConclusionL: Justice in translation.

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