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Author Hinton, Alexander Laban, author.

Title The justice facade : trials of transition in Cambodia / Alexander Laban Hinton
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages)
Contents Preface: Uncle San and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal -- Introduction: The transitional justice imaginary -- Progression (Cambodia's three transitions) -- Time (the Khmer Institute of Democracy) -- Space (Center for Social Development and the Public Sphere) -- Aesthtics (Theary Sang, Vann Nath, and victim participation) -- Performance (Reach Sambath, public affairs, and "Justice Trouble") -- Discipline (Uncle Meng and the trials of the foreign) -- Subjectivity (DC-Cam and the ECCC outreach tour) -- Normativity (civil party testimony) -- Disposition (Youk Chhang, documenter and survivor) -- ConclusionL: Justice in translation
Summary For survivors of the brutal Khmer Rouge Regime, western instruments of justice are small plasters on deep wounds. In Hinton's account of the subsequent international tribunal, only traditional ceremony, ritual, and unmediated dialogue can provide true healing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-274) and index
Notes Online resource; title from HTML homepage (Oxford, viewed November 19, 2020)
Subject Parti communiste du Kampuchea -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT Parti communiste du Kampuchea. fast (OCoLC)fst00530281
Subject Transitional justice -- Cambodia
Genocide -- Sociological aspects.
Trials (Crimes against humanity) -- Cambodia
Trials (Genocide) -- Cambodia
War crime trials -- Cambodia
Justice, Administration of -- Cambodia
Genocide -- Cambodia
Humanitarian intervention -- Cambodia
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
LAW -- Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
War crime trials.
Trials (Genocide)
Trials (Crimes against humanity)
Genocide -- Sociological aspects.
Genocide.
Humanitarian intervention.
Justice, Administration of.
Transitional justice.
Cambodia.
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192552907
0192552902
9780191860607
0191860603