Gendering Transitional Justice: A Racialized Construction of Victimhood in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
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In the course of its post-revolutionary journey, Tunisia has adopted a transitional justice process. This international label squares with a set of mechanisms to promote the recognition of victims and of the violations committed against them as the bedrock of a free and peaceful society. To that end, Tunisia created a national commission, the Truth and Dignity Commission (2014–2018), and undertook a collaboration with two international organizations and a US-based NGO: respectively the United Nations Development Program, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). Whereas expert literature often presents transitional justice as a highly localized instrument because of the permanent presence of national truth commissions in these processes, transitional justice still meets the classic standards of international development aid. For instance, victims and the associations helping them are being integrated to the process through the technical and financial support of international organizations, and truth commissioners are being trained by international experts on gender issues. This gender program of transitional justice can be considered as a “global politics of victimhood,” since it contributes to defining the categories of female victims using international mainstreaming tools.
Keywords
- violence
- gender
- Tunisia
- transitional justice
- victimhood
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Herausgegeben von:
Clara Eroukhmanoff, Alister Wedderburn
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The University of Chicago Press Journals, Polity Volume 54, Number 4, Special issue «The Global Politics of Victimhood», pp. 849–857
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Englisch
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Chicago
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2022
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Gewalt – Belästigung
Polizei – Justiz – Massnahmen – Gefängnis
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Gender Studies, Soziologie
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