Justice and reconciliation in world politics

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Justice and reconciliation in world politics

Catherine Lu

(Cambridge studies in international relations, 144)

Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302) and index

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Calls for justice and reconciliation in response to political catastrophes are widespread in contemporary world politics. What implications do these normative strivings have in relation to colonial injustice? Examining cases of colonial war, genocide, forced sexual labor, forcible incorporation, and dispossession, Lu demonstrates that international practices of justice and reconciliation have historically suffered from, and continue to reflect, colonial, statist and other structural biases. The continued reproduction of structural injustice and alienation in modern domestic, international and transnational orders generates contemporary duties of redress. How should we think about the responsibility of contemporary agents to address colonial structural injustices and what implications follow for the transformation of international and transnational orders? Redressing the structural injustices implicated in or produced by colonial politics requires strategies of decolonization, decentering, and disalienation that go beyond interactional practices of justice and reconciliation, beyond victims and perpetrators, and beyond a statist world order.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1. Justice and reconciliation: Versailles 1919
  • 2. Pathologies of victimhood
  • 3. Settling accounts
  • 4. Agents, structures, and colonial injustice
  • 5. History and structural injustice
  • 6. Reconciliation and alienation
  • 7. Reparations
  • 8. Beyond reparations: towards structural transformation.

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