Keeping Hold of Justice

Balint, Jennifer; Evans, Julie; McMillan, Mark; McMillan, Nesam

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“…This article has shown how the TRC's structural turn invisibilized wrongdoers and painted an inadvertent portrait of benevolent Canadian reformism. Advocates of more holistic or structural approaches (for example, Balint et al, 2020; Lu, 2017; Rothberg, 2019) declare that their aim is not to ignore individual responsibility but rather to treat structure and collective responsibility in relation to deeper causes and solutions. I agree with the aim and admire these authors’ work.…”

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“…A growing number of scholars (for example, Balint et al, 2020; Henry, 2015; Lu, 2017; Nagy, 2008) have responded to the historical justice dilemma by proposing a significant reorientation of the field. They call for a broader notion of transition than the human-rights and rule-of-law emphasis that accompanied the first wave of post–Cold War transitions (Teitel, 2003).…”

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The Structural Injustice Turn, the Historical Justice Dilemma and Assigning Responsibility with the Canadian TRC Report

James

2021

Can J Pol Sci

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This article addresses the historical justice dilemma: although critical memory is indispensable for accountability, efforts to use it are often hampered by the unjust relations and systems that caused the wrongs to which historical justice is compelled to respond in the first place. Contemporary authors tackle this problem by focusing on collective responsibility for structural injustice. This article takes a different tack. Studying closely the 2009–2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) report, it argues that the structural turn may come at the expense of a focus on agency and may thus provide unwitting anonymity for wrongdoers while crimping our thinking about leadership and responsibility. Although this article strongly criticizes the TRC report, it tries to work constructively with it, developing an analysis that compensates for the report's unwitting invisibilization of perpetrators. Distilling portraits and analyses of wrongdoer agency that are latent in the TRC's postwar history volume, this article shows how we can develop the report as a resource of what I call retributive social accountability.

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The Structural Injustice Turn, the Historical Justice Dilemma and Assigning Responsibility with the Canadian TRC Report

James

2021

Can J Pol Sci

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“…Where heritage places are aimed at helping us to make sense of the fraught past, quite often they could play a role also in helping us make sense of and respond to the fraught present. It is for this reason that Sites of Conscience and the focus on social justice and rights can play a valuable role by underscoring temporal-spatial endurance (see also Balint et al, 2020).…”

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“…I want to draw on the argument developed by Balint and others (2020) that universities can be simultaneously sites for structural injustice and structural justice. As the law can carry responsibility and be ethically accountable, by recognizing “colonial injury” universities can do the same.…”

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“…This act could be compared with the City of London’s erection of a fourth plinth on Trafalgar square as a way to open a space that could engage and counter the imperial landscape and representation on Trafalgar square (City of London, 2020; Curtis, 2004). Issues of relationality and historical layeredness are central to a context of political transition and the discourse of transitional justice (see Balint et al, 2020; Kent, 2016). In the aftermath of removal, the relationality between past, present, and future and the multiplicity of narratives that this relation unearths are crucial for the reconfiguration of these spaces as sites of conscience.…”

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University Spaces as Sites of Conscience

Marle

2022

Space and Culture

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In this article, I reflect on the idea of university spaces as potential sites of conscience. I explore how these spaces act not only as continuous reminders of past violence, marginalization, and exclusion, but as reminders also of ethical accountability and redress. The latter discloses opportunities and possibilities for a reinterpretation of such spaces, keeping in mind that the traces of the past will remain and that every attempt at erasure will be incomplete. The article considers how spaces or places that remain in the process of decolonization can be mobilized as sites of conscience. These sites/spaces/places manifest relationality also between materiality and symbol and between judgment and ethical accountability. The article focuses on issues surrounding the removal of a statue of the past president of the Republic of the Orange Free State, President M. T. Steyn at the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The university has a long and troubled history of exclusion, racism, and authoritarianism, among others. Since the early 1990s, many attempts have been made to transform, not all in vain. The statue itself was a site of contention at the UFS for many years and was removed over the last weekend in June 2020. I conclude that space that remains on the UFS campus is one of haunting that urges a certain sense of place and atmosphere that could forge learning, education, and transforming citizenship.

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Review of Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors: Legal Responses in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia by Sinead Ring, Kate Gleeson and Kim Stevenson. Routledge, 2022, 350pp (£104 hardback) ISBN: 978 1 138 60535 0

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2023

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Keeping Hold of Justice

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The Structural Injustice Turn, the Historical Justice Dilemma and Assigning Responsibility with the Canadian TRC Report

The Structural Injustice Turn, the Historical Justice Dilemma and Assigning Responsibility with the Canadian TRC Report

University Spaces as Sites of Conscience

Review of Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors: Legal Responses in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia by Sinead Ring, Kate Gleeson and Kim Stevenson. Routledge, 2022, 350pp (£104 hardback) ISBN: 978 1 138 60535 0

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