Remembering martial law : an eco-system of truth initiatives and the emergence of narrative documentation in the Philippines
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- Tine Destrooper (UGent)
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- VICTPART (Righting Victim Participation in Transitional Justice - VictPart)
- Future-proofing human rights. Towards a thicker understanding of accountability
- Abstract
- In the Philippines, governmental and civil society actors installed a range of mechanisms to deal with violent legacies of the Marcos regime. Formal truth-telling mechanisms were, however, not part of the early transitional justice architecture, meaning that truth-seeking initially took place as part of other justice efforts. Nonetheless, more recently, a boom in truth, documentation and memorialization processes has resulted in a dynamic eco-system of formal and informal truth initiatives, dealing with Martial Law as well as other violent legacies. This article argues that this eco-system of truth initiatives underlines the importance and potential of foregrounding the dissemination of truths through a decentralized approach to truth-telling, as well as the potential of ‘narrative documentation’ in doing so. I then explore how this eco-systemic approach to truth-telling, and the narrative documentation used as part of it, can be a meaningful strategy in the face of ongoing disinformation campaigns.
- Keywords
- Documentation, Marcos, memorialization, truth-seeking, truth-telling, TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE, LITIGATION
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HHCFRWXKCDSS6CVF62P1HDBE
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- Destrooper, Tine. “Remembering Martial Law : An Eco-System of Truth Initiatives and the Emergence of Narrative Documentation in the Philippines.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE, vol. 17, no. 3, 2024, pp. 370–87, doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijad025.
- APA
- Destrooper, T. (2024). Remembering martial law : an eco-system of truth initiatives and the emergence of narrative documentation in the Philippines. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE, 17(3), 370–387. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijad025
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- Destrooper, Tine. 2024. “Remembering Martial Law : An Eco-System of Truth Initiatives and the Emergence of Narrative Documentation in the Philippines.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 17 (3): 370–87. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijad025.
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- Destrooper, Tine. 2024. “Remembering Martial Law : An Eco-System of Truth Initiatives and the Emergence of Narrative Documentation in the Philippines.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 17 (3): 370–387. doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijad025.
- Vancouver
- 1.Destrooper T. Remembering martial law : an eco-system of truth initiatives and the emergence of narrative documentation in the Philippines. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE. 2024;17(3):370–87.
- IEEE
- [1]T. Destrooper, “Remembering martial law : an eco-system of truth initiatives and the emergence of narrative documentation in the Philippines,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 370–387, 2024.
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