Voices from the shadows: the role of cultural contexts in transitional justice processes: Maya Q'eqchi' perspectives from post-conflict Guatemala
(2011)
- Author
- Lieselotte Viaene (UGent)
- Promoter
- Eva Brems (UGent)
- Organization
- Abstract
- This PhD research intersects the fields of human rights, transitional justice and anthropology and investigates the actual and potential role of cultural contexts in dealing with grave violations of human rights in societies emerging from an armed conflict and authoritarian regimes. The study of this central research question is based on the analysis of the case study of post-conflict Guatemala for which 21 months of ethnographic field research among Maya Q’eqchi’ survivors has been carried out between 2006 and 2010. This study shows that Maya Q’eqchi’ survivors mobilise a hybrid entirety of practices, attitudes and engagements on the individual as well as collective level to unveil the truth and attain justice, reparation, memory recovery and reconciliation. Within this hybrid operates a complex, interrelated and fluid mixture of local cultural practices, attitudes and engagements which are rooted in the Maya Q’eqchi’ cosmovision and related to normative order as well as being grafted onto transitional justice mechanisms provided by the Guatemalan State and activities organised by outside actors.
- Keywords
- Transitional justice, Legal anthropology, Human rights violations, Cultural diversity, Ethnographic fieldresearch, Indigenous peoples, Guatemala, Victims' perspective, Perpetrators
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-3063795
- MLA
- Viaene, Lieselotte. Voices from the Shadows: The Role of Cultural Contexts in Transitional Justice Processes: Maya Q’eqchi’ Perspectives from Post-Conflict Guatemala. Ghent University, Department of Public Law, 2011.
- APA
- Viaene, L. (2011). Voices from the shadows: the role of cultural contexts in transitional justice processes: Maya Q’eqchi’ perspectives from post-conflict Guatemala. Ghent University, Department of Public Law, Ghent, Belgium.
- Chicago author-date
- Viaene, Lieselotte. 2011. “Voices from the Shadows: The Role of Cultural Contexts in Transitional Justice Processes: Maya Q’eqchi’ Perspectives from Post-Conflict Guatemala.” Ghent, Belgium: Ghent University, Department of Public Law.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Viaene, Lieselotte. 2011. “Voices from the Shadows: The Role of Cultural Contexts in Transitional Justice Processes: Maya Q’eqchi’ Perspectives from Post-Conflict Guatemala.” Ghent, Belgium: Ghent University, Department of Public Law.
- Vancouver
- 1.Viaene L. Voices from the shadows: the role of cultural contexts in transitional justice processes: Maya Q’eqchi’ perspectives from post-conflict Guatemala. [Ghent, Belgium]: Ghent University, Department of Public Law; 2011.
- IEEE
- [1]L. Viaene, “Voices from the shadows: the role of cultural contexts in transitional justice processes: Maya Q’eqchi’ perspectives from post-conflict Guatemala,” Ghent University, Department of Public Law, Ghent, Belgium, 2011.
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