Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
תיאוריה וביקורת; במה ישראלית
Angaben zur Quelle:
50 (תשעח) 371-390
Keywords:
Transitional justice
;
Human rights
;
Arab-Israeli conflict Peace 1993-
;
Civil society
;
Arab-Israeli conflict Literature and the conflict
;
Hebrew literature, Modern History and criticism
Abstract:
The field of transitional justice – which examines how societies deal with legacies of conflicts and mass human rights violations – has undergone a meteoric rise in recent decades. The discourses and practices of transitional justice – part of a field situated mainly in the “post” phase, following transitions from conflict to peace, or from repressive regimes to democracy – seem at first incompatible with the reality of the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nevertheless, in this article we identify and analyze several ways in which transitional justice themes have begun to appear in the Israeli discourse in two parallel arenas: the work of civil society organizations and literary writings. Whereas in other countries around the world the catalyst for the rise of transitional justice discourse has been the implementation of peace processes, we argue that local circumstances have led to a paradoxical situation in which the failure of the Oslo process and the removal of peace negotiations as an immediate option have opened a critical space for dealing with transitional questions regarding historical responsibility for wrongdoings. At the same time, in the absence of the option of examining these questions in the formal legal arena, the examination of past injustices shifts to alternative arenas, which imagine, through mimicry and prefiguration, formal processes of transitional justice. The article examines how transitional themes are expressed in informal mechanisms of civil society and in literary works of the post-Oslo era.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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