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Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the
historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw
“globalization” come and go. Suau people encountered the
leading edge of missionization and colonialism in Papua New Guinea
and were active participants in the Second World War. In Memory of
Times to Come offers a nuanced account of how people assess their
own experience of change over the course of a critical century. It
asks two key questions: What does it mean to claim that global
connections are in the past rather than the present or the future,
and what does it mean to claim that one has lost one’s culture,
but not because anyone else took it away or destroyed it?
This book explores the role and implications of responsibility for
anthropology, asking how responsibility is recognised and invoked
in the world, what relations it draws upon, and how it comes to
define notions of the person, institutional practices, ways of
knowing and modes of evaluation. The category of responsibility has
a long genealogy within the discipline of anthropology and it
surfaces in contemporary debates as well as in anthropologists’
collaboration with other disciplines, including when anthropology
is applied in fields such as development, medicine, and
humanitarian response. As a category that unsettles, challenges and
critically engages with political, ethical and epistemological
questions, responsibility is central to anthropological theory,
ethnographic practice, collaborative research, and applied
engagement. With chapters focused on a variety of cultural
contexts, this volume considers how anthropology can contribute to
a better understanding of responsibility, including the
‘responsibility of anthropology’ and the responsibility of
anthropologists to specific others.
Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the
historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw "globalization"
come and go. Suau people encountered the leading edge of
missionization and colonialism in Papua New Guinea and were active
participants in the Second World War. In Memory of Times to Come
offers a nuanced account of how people assess their own experience
of change over the course of a critical century. It asks two key
questions: What does it mean to claim that global connections are
in the past rather than the present or the future, and what does it
mean to claim that one has lost one's culture, but not because
anyone else took it away or destroyed it?
Transitional justice seeks to establish a break between the violent
past and a peaceful, democratic future, and is based on compelling
frameworks of resolution, rupture and transition. Bringing together
contributions from the disciplines of law, history and
anthropology, this comprehensive volume challenges these
frameworks, opening up critical conversations around the concepts
of justice and injustice; history and record; and healing,
transition and resolution. The authors explore how these concepts
operate across time and space, as well as disciplinary boundaries.
They examine how transitional justice mechanisms are utilised to
resolve complex legacies of violence in ways that are often narrow,
partial and incomplete, and reinforce existing relations of power.
They also destabilise the sharp distinction between 'before' and
'after' war or conflict that narratives of transition and
resolution assume and reproduce. As transitional justice continues
to be celebrated and promoted around the globe, this book provides
a much-needed reflection on its role and promises. It not only
critiques transitional justice frameworks but offers new ways of
thinking about questions of violence, conflict, justice and
injustice. It was originally published as a special issue of the
Australian Feminist Law Journal.
Transitional justice seeks to establish a break between the violent
past and a peaceful, democratic future, and is based on compelling
frameworks of resolution, rupture and transition. Bringing together
contributions from the disciplines of law, history and
anthropology, this comprehensive volume challenges these
frameworks, opening up critical conversations around the concepts
of justice and injustice; history and record; and healing,
transition and resolution. The authors explore how these concepts
operate across time and space, as well as disciplinary boundaries.
They examine how transitional justice mechanisms are utilised to
resolve complex legacies of violence in ways that are often narrow,
partial and incomplete, and reinforce existing relations of power.
They also destabilise the sharp distinction between 'before' and
'after' war or conflict that narratives of transition and
resolution assume and reproduce. As transitional justice continues
to be celebrated and promoted around the globe, this book provides
a much-needed reflection on its role and promises. It not only
critiques transitional justice frameworks but offers new ways of
thinking about questions of violence, conflict, justice and
injustice. It was originally published as a special issue of the
Australian Feminist Law Journal.
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