| ID | 146134 |
| Title Proper | Today, i want to speak out the truth |
| Other Title Information | victim agency, responsibility, and transitional justice |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Baines, Erin K |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In this article, I am concerned with the political agency available to victims of wartime violence, and the subsequent insights it generates for thinking about complicity and responsibility. The article first considers the problematic ways in which victims are cast in the discipline of transitional justice, drawing on interdisciplinary studies of gender, agency, and wartime violence. I conceptualize the political as relational and situated within a web of human relationships that make life meaningful. Political agency includes acts, gestures, and words that negotiate the value of human life within various relationships. To illustrate, I turn to the life story of Sara, a young woman who grew up in the context of prolonged conflict in northern Uganda. I conclude with thinking about how Sara's acts of political agency move us beyond static categories of victims in transitional justice, and conceive of responsibility as diffuse and socially held. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Political Sociology Vol. 9, No.4; Dec 2015: p.316–332 |
| Journal Source | International Political Sociology 2015-12 9, 4 |
| Key Words | Responsibility ; Transitional Justice ; Political Agency ; Wartime Violence ; Victim Agency |