Overview
- Examines what is today uncritically called “transitional justice” and how it has been described and understood since World War Two
- Focuses on the legal and political concepts used in everyday life and/or the ones mobilized in the academic work
- Examines the circulation of categories, know-how, arguments, among countries and periods
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Life and Death of Concepts and Categories
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Implementation of Categories and Savoir-Faire
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Transnational Circulation and Hybridization of Categories
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Liora Israël is a sociologist at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and assistant director of the Centre Maurice Halbwachs, Paris. Guillaume Mouralis is an historian and sociologist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and a member of the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dealing with Wars and Dictatorships
Book Subtitle: Legal Concepts and Categories in Action
Editors: Liora Israël, Guillaume Mouralis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-930-6
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: T.M.C. Asser press, The Hague, and the authors 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-6704-929-0Published: 16 December 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-90-6704-930-6Published: 02 December 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 269
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Human Rights, Political Science, Sociology, general, History, general