Race and Transitional Justice

Oxford University Press has published Race and Transitional Justice edited by Sarah M.H. Nouwen and Neha Jain (Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law).

The discourse, scholarship, and practice of transitional justice have become pivotal to addressing historical systematic injustices. However, until recently, the field has largely overlooked some of the most enduring and pervasive injustices of human history: racism and the colonialism and slave-trade that both reflected and fuelled it. Race and Transitional Justice examines how race and racism interact with transitional justice mechanisms and institutions to question why this is the case, and how it could be different.

Bringing together diverse perspectives to examine the historical and socio-political contexts of transitional justice, the contributions offer a range of responses. These range from calls to abandon the field due to its complicity in settler hegemony, to considering it an essential space for working towards a more just, non-racist social order.

Current University of Cambridge staff and student members can access the ebook via iDiscover.  

For more information about this book, please refer to the Oxford University Press website.

For information about publications by Professor Nouwen, please refer to her Faculty profile.