Advancing Feminist Positioning in the Field of Transitional Justice

Aoláin, Fionnuala Ní

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“…The understanding of the constraints on justice seeking constituted by everyday enactment of nationhood in a post‐conflict environment remains a lacuna in this scholarship. We address this gap by heeding the need identified by Ní Aoláin () to return the gaze to the cultural, material, and geopolitical sites where transitional justice is practiced. The theoretical perspective of everyday nationalism allows us to reveal how transitional justice is implicated in reproducing gender hierarchies in post‐conflict nation building.…”

Section: Gender and Transitional Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Skirts as Flags: Transitional Justice, Gender and Everyday Nationalism in Kosovo

Krasniqi

Sokolić

Kostovicova

2020

Nations and Nationalism

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Section: Gender and Transitional Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Skirts as Flags: Transitional Justice, Gender and Everyday Nationalism in Kosovo

Krasniqi

Sokolić

Kostovicova

2020

Nations and Nationalism

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“…Examining and unpacking the workings of the law and how it is implicated in maintaining or perpetuating women's disadvantage in society, provides an important contribution to the work of feminist legal scholars in working towards 'transformative social and political change' (Ní Aoláin, 2012). Along those lines, in this issue, Torunn Wimpelmann examines law reform in post-2003 Afghanistan.…”

Section: Transformative Gender Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Transformative gender justice: Setting an agenda

Boesten

Wilding

2015

Women's Studies International Forum

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T W " I J justice mechanisms, in the broadest sense, to have transformative outcomes upon gender relations and the position of women in countries with histories of violence, whether that be political violence, post-conflict, chronic criminal and / or social M experiences during and following periods of extensive violence are informed by pre-existing, peacetime, inequalities. The specific gendered harms suffered by women, such as sexual violence and exploitation, are grounded in understandings of gendered roles in society and the perceived links between reproduction and community. Thus, as the growing body of feminist research into processes of transitional justice show, women have vital stakes in post-conflict transformation, rather than reconstruction (Chinking and Charlesworth 2006 cited in Reilly 2007, Ní Aoláin 2012). Likewise, the (often far less visible) expectation that women sustain their caring roles in the everyday of war providing food, shelter, and care for dependents, or soldiers, in often desperate contexts constitutes specifically gendered experiences associated with existing inequalities and expectations (Reilly 2007). With this knowledge in mind, it is increasingly obvious that for women periods of societal transition have to aim for the transformation of the underlying inequalities that provided the conditions in which these specifically gendered harms were possible. Consequently, it is ina if this results in more of the same just under different circumstances.The essays in this Special Issue on Transformative Gender Justice 1 build on this emerging body of work that emphasizes the need for a transformative approach to the opportunity that transitions can pose in the aftermath of mass violence. This means that we are not only interested in the structures of inequality and injustice, and how these relate to violence, but in the institutional processes that silently and, often contrary to intentions, reproduce those same inequalities. Ultimately, we are interested in investigating strategies rooted in different disciplinary traditions that challenge such structures. In other words, we are interested in how different justice strategies and mechanisms can contribute to the reconfiguration of power beyond individual experiences of violence and injustice, but rather, at societal level. This Special Issue, therefore, is a contribution to this emerging debate, which explicitly aims to bring together a range of disciplinary perspectives with gender analysis at the heart. Gender, and transformationIn recent years there has been a global momentum in thinking about and responding to violence against women (VAW), originating with the early research into domestic

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“…Building on feminist engagements with gender and international law (Charlesworth et al 1991;Charlesworth 1999;Charlesworth and Chinkin 2000;Otto 2009), human rights law (Cook 1993;Knop 2004;Engle 2005) and international criminal law (Copelon 2000;Oosterveld 2005) over the past decade ''gender'' has emerged as a subfield of transitional justice in its own right (Franke 2006;Theidon 2007;Bell and O'Rourke 2007;Buckley-Zistel and Stanley 2011;ní Aoláin 2012;Fineman and Zinsstag 2013;O'Rourke 2013a, b), including a sub-subfield on gender and reparations (particularly Rubio-Marin 2006. 1 As the legal feminist perspective gained prominence with respect to the development of norms and institutions within the transitional justice field, and within international criminal law more broadly, it became particularly successful at ensuring that sexual violence be given adequate consideration as a crime (Vijeyarasa 2013).…”

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Beyond Sexual Violence in Transitional Justice: Political Insecurity as a Gendered Harm

Lemaitre

Sandvik

2014

Fem Leg Stud

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The growing literature on gender in armed conflict and the debates over post-conflict reparations for women, focus on the prevalence and harms of sexual violence. While this focus has recently been critiqued, there are few articulations of other types of gendered injuries. This article decentres the emphasis on sexual violence by examining the intersection between forced displacement and political insecurity. Based on extensive field research in Colombia, and using as an example a case study of an internally displaced women's grassroots organization in Cartagena, Colombia, this article examines political insecurity as a specifically gendered harm. It reflects on the concrete circumstances of insecurity, on the relevance of traditional gender roles in the constitution of insecurity, and on the challenges for court-ordered remedies. This widening of the scope of attention also invites complex reflection on the possibility of transformative reparations in post-conflict situations.

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Advancing Feminist Positioning in the Field of Transitional Justice

Cited by 88 publications

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Skirts as Flags: Transitional Justice, Gender and Everyday Nationalism in Kosovo

Skirts as Flags: Transitional Justice, Gender and Everyday Nationalism in Kosovo

Transformative gender justice: Setting an agenda

Beyond Sexual Violence in Transitional Justice: Political Insecurity as a Gendered Harm

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