Performances of Injustice: The Politics of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Kenya

by Gabrielle Lynch

Following unprecedented violence in 2007/8, Kenya introduced two classic transitional justice mechanisms: a truth commission and international criminal proceedings. Both are widely believed to have failed, but why? And what do their performances say about contemporary Kenya; the ways in which violent pasts persist; and the shortcomings of transitional justice? Using the lens of performance, this book analyses how transitional justice efforts are incapable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108426212
• ISBN13: 9781108426213
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.2"