Feminist and human rights struggles in Peru
Subtitle: decolonizing transitional justice
By: Pascha Bueno-Hansen
Series: Dissident feminisms
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780252039423; 9780252081002; 9780252097539
Subjects: Transitional justice; Human rights movements; Feminism
Description: In 2001, following a generation of armed conflict and authoritarian rule, the Peruvian state created a Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC). Pascha Bueno-Hansen places the TRC, feminist and human rights movements, and related non-governmental organizations within an international and historical context to expose the difficulties in addressing gender-based violence. Her innovative theoretical and methodological framework based on decolonial feminism and a critical engagement with intersectionality facilitates an in-depth examination of the Peruvian transitional justice process based on field studies and archival research. Bueno-Hansen uncovers the colonial mappings and linear temporality underlying transitional justice efforts and illustrates why transitional justice mechanisms must reckon with the societal roots of atrocities, if they are to result in true and lasting social transformation. Original and bold, Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru elucidates the tension between the promise of transitional justice and persistent inequality and impunity. -- Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Parallel tracks and fraught encounters : the human rights and feminist movements (and campesina protagonism) in peru; title: Gender implementation in the peruvian truth and reconciliation commission; title: National reconciliation through public hearings : representative repertoire, choreography, and politics of reception; title: Sexual violence beyond consent and coercion; title: Finding each other's hearts : weaving interculturality into gender and human rights.