Intersectionality as Locality: Children and Transitional Justice in Nepal

Billingsley, Krista

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“…While many members of the Tharu community joined the Maoists, the Nepal Army and Armed Police Force killed, tortured, and forcibly disappeared people from the Tharu community indiscriminately (United Nations, 2008, 2012). Most of these were forcibly disappeared by state security forces in Bardiya after the Nepal Government declared a state of emergency in November 2001, enacted antiterrorist legislation, and gained significant financial and logistical support from the United States, India, and the United Kingdom to fight the Maoists, deemed “terrorists.” Subsequently, children of the unlawfully killed and forcibly disappeared were taunted as “orphans” while their mothers were stigmatized as “widows” or “whores” and viewed as polluted within their communities (Billingsley, 2018). Their experiences of human rights violations during Nepal's armed conflict thus added additional marginalizing aspects to their identities (Billingsley, 2018).…”

Section: Contested Memories Of Internal Armed Conflict In Nepal and The United Statesmentioning

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Memorialization as a Mechanism of Power in the Present: The Creation and Contestation of National Narratives in the Wake of Internal Armed Conflict

Billingsley

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective The objectives of this article are to understand how national narratives are created and maintained, which discourses are utilized, and what inhibits people from understanding perspectives divergent from their own within the context of postarmed conflict processes of transitional justice. Through examining these objectives, I outline what studies of transitional justice can contribute to understandings of Confederate memory in the United States. Method I conducted 14 months of ethnographic research with conflict victims after a decade‐long internal armed conflict in Nepal. Results I argue finding new ways to conceptualize and discuss that Confederate monuments in the United States require acknowledgement of the economic and political power structures that constrain equitable access to public memory projects. Conclusion I conclude that how memorialization processes obfuscate, rather than illuminate, marginalized histories in the present, and legitimate ongoing inequalities must be questioned and redressed.

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Memorialization as a Mechanism of Power in the Present: The Creation and Contestation of National Narratives in the Wake of Internal Armed Conflict

Billingsley

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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“…ii In transitional justice, the dominance of western intellectual and legal traditions silences 'other subaltern ways of knowing' and creates a field which appears 'unable or unwilling to envisage ways of knowing that surpass our own imagination' (Vielle, 2012: 67). In particular, transitional justice can overlook or marginalise the experiences of indigenous communities (Santamaría et al, 2020); women (Gerodetti, 2016;Weber, 2018), children (Billingsley, 2018) and of course the relationship between harm and how these identities intersect (Rooney and Ní…”

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'Greening' Transitional Justice?

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Dempster

2021

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The Language of Inclusion: Using Critical Corpus-Based Methods to Study the Presence and Representation of “Women, Children and Vulnerable Groups” in Liberia’s Truth Commission

Evrard

2023

Soc Just Res

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While inclusion, participation and victim-centredness have become catchwords in transitional justice discourse, this rhetoric has not necessarily enabled the articulation of more complex identities and experiences, or the pursuit of varied justice claims. To probe this disconnect, this article engages with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia, a mechanism established to reckon with the country’s history of internal armed conflict, and hailed for its involvement of vulnerable, disenfranchised and oft-overlooked groups. The article combines expressive theories of justice with an innovative corpus-based methodology to critically examine how the Commission made visible, defined and construed these actors through its language of inclusion. Results from word frequency, co-occurrence and sentiment analyses illustrate how the Commission foregrounded the plight and rights of women and children, and their participation as a vehicle for emancipation, but simultaneously reproduced universalist and static identities, fixation on sexual violence and child soldier recruitment, and subject positions lacking in positive or political capabilities. This duality points to inherent tensions in the expressive messaging of TJ institutions, and rather locates the transformative potential of their inclusionary language in the strategic openings it affords for victims’ groups, women and youth organizations in their broader trajectories towards justice and change.

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Intersectionality as Locality: Children and Transitional Justice in Nepal

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Memorialization as a Mechanism of Power in the Present: The Creation and Contestation of National Narratives in the Wake of Internal Armed Conflict

Memorialization as a Mechanism of Power in the Present: The Creation and Contestation of National Narratives in the Wake of Internal Armed Conflict

'Greening' Transitional Justice?

The Language of Inclusion: Using Critical Corpus-Based Methods to Study the Presence and Representation of “Women, Children and Vulnerable Groups” in Liberia’s Truth Commission

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