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Book SynopsisOn Irreconciliation focuses on the less examined but frequent ethnographic instances when survivors refuse to forgive in response to persistent impunity of past injustices, particularly, in the face of absence-presence of the rule of law and staged processes of justice which serve the powerful. An ethnographically-informed, interdisciplinary theorisation which makes irreconciliation visible in the contexts of Northern Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Mozambique, Bangladesh, Canada, Argentina, Sri Lanka, Colombia, USA and UKTriangulates a discussion of the rule of law within processes of unresolved genocidal injustices, debates relating to statues of slave owners, racial prejudice and institutional responsesContributors demonstrate the relationship of irreconciliation with law, aesthetics, temporality, resistance and the limits of the conceptMakes a theoretical and ethnographic case for irreconciliation as both a social and political phenomenonProposes an understanding of the past based on
Table of Contents1. Introduction - On Irreconciliation: Nayanika Mookherjee (Durham University)
2. Being held accountable: why attributing responsibility matters: Lisette Josephides (Queens University, Belfast)
3. Civil war and the non-linearity of time: Approaching a Mozambican politics of irreconciliation: Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (University of Bergen)
4. ‘I was celebrating the justice the victims got’; exploring irreconciliation among Bangladeshi human rights activists in London: Jacco Visser (Aarhus University)
5. Perpetration, Impunity and Irreconciliation in Canada’s TRC on Indian Residential Schools: Ronald Niezen (McGill University)
6. Irreconciliation, Reciprocity, and Social Change (Afterword 1): Professor Richard Wilson (University of Connecticut)
7. Irreconciliation as Practice: Resisting Impunity and Closure in Argentina: Noa Vaisman (Aarhus University)
8. Absence in Technicolour: Protesting Enforced Disappearances in Northern Sri Lanka: Vindhya Buthpitiya (University College London)
9. Rendering the Absent Visible: Victimhood and the Irreconciliability of Violence: Kamari Maxine Clarke (The University of California, Los Angeles)
10. Irreconcilable Times: Nayanika Mookherjee (Durham University)
11. Action beyond intent: experiencing ir/reconciliation (Afterword II): Professor Sara Schneiderman (University of British Columbia)
