A Problem of Utopia: Human Rights and Transitional Justice
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Published in The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice, Jens Meierhenrich & Alexander Lahan Hinton, eds.
This chapter discusses the interrelation between human rights and transitional justice. It starts by highlighting that human rights are deeply political even though advocates sought to distance it from politics due to its birth in the vortex of the cold war. Moreover, human rights are inextricably and inherently tied with the larger project of Western political democracy and the free market norms that underline liberalism. The idea and practice of transitional justice became a religion within the human rights community, which is decidedly interventionist. The chapter explains how human rights and transitional justice are presented as a doctrine of emancipation.
Publication Date
2-22-2024
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
9780198704355
Keywords
human rights, transitional justice, politics, Western political democracy, free market norm, emancipation
Disciplines
Human Rights Law | Law | Law and Society
Recommended Citation
Makau wa Mutua, A Problem of Utopia: Human Rights and Transitional Justice in The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice (Jens Meierhenrich & Alexander Lahan Hinton, eds., Oxford University Press 2024).
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