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Rethinking civil society and transitional justice: lessons from social movements and ‘new’ civil society
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Gready, Paul Robins, Simon |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | ABSTRACTTransitional justice has often reduced conceptions of civil society to human rights NGOs, and lacks a rigorous conceptualisation of the role that civil society plays in transitional justice processes. It largely ignores as political actors the social movements that have driven democratisation in various parts of the world and can be credited as integral to the creation of the discourse of transitional justice. While transitional justice in theory and practice remains focused on traditional civil society, institutions and the state, recent transitions highlight that change is driven by a range of different actors, often using modes of organisation and repertoires of action linked to social movement modalities and other forms of collective action. As such we coin the term ‘new’ civil society, associated with events such as the Arab Spring and austerity-led protests in Southern Europe, to argue that it provides new models for understanding change and justice in transition. An effort is made to concep... |
| Starting Page | 956 |
| Ending Page | 975 |
| Page Count | 20 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/13642987.2017.1313237 |
| Volume Number | 21 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/116557/3/Rethinking_civil_society_and_transitional_justice_lessons_from_social_movements_and_new_civil_society.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2017.1313237 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
