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13 - HIJOS

Breaking Social Silence with Another Kind of Justice

from Part III - New(er) Directions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2019

Paul Gready
Affiliation:
University of York
Simon Robins
Affiliation:
University of York
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Chapter 12 argues for a radical change in transitional justice in terms of its goals, organizational forms and means or activities. It draws on the work of HIJOS in Argentina in relation to both the military dictatorship and the economic crisis in 2001, making the case that these two ruptures were inextricably linked. In this setting the goals have been to bring about social justice and challenge social silence about the past, rather than to focus on the state. Organizationally, HIJOS favors horizontalism, or network formations without hierarchy or central power structures. Activities include escraches (public performances, direct action, ‘outing’ perpetrators) and other activities which highlight justice as a process or set of practices. The chapter concludes that justice is not dependent on the institution that embodies it but on actions that produce it, and understood as such justice produces truths that power cannot coopt.
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Print publication year: 2019

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  • HIJOS
  • Edited by Paul Gready, University of York, Simon Robins, University of York
  • Book: From Transitional to Transformative Justice
  • Online publication: 08 February 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316676028.013
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  • HIJOS
  • Edited by Paul Gready, University of York, Simon Robins, University of York
  • Book: From Transitional to Transformative Justice
  • Online publication: 08 February 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316676028.013
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  • HIJOS
  • Edited by Paul Gready, University of York, Simon Robins, University of York
  • Book: From Transitional to Transformative Justice
  • Online publication: 08 February 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316676028.013
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