Transitional Justice in Relationship to Public Sphere and Civil Society: Theoretical Approaches

• Authors: Pietrzak Edyta
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the entitled fields in the framework of their mutual influence. The notion of the public sphere is valuable for understanding the role that civil society plays in transitional justice processes. However transitional justice often reduces the idea of civil society to NGOs and ignores the social movements and civic engagement in the public realm that can be perceived as integral to the creation of new cases for understanding justice in transition. This fact results in the lack of perception of the civil society place in transitional justice processes. Thus the presented paper is based on hermeneutics, critical discourse analysis and dialogue between various theoretical approaches.

Keywords

EN

public sphere; civil society; transitional justice; non-governmental organisations

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 1 (47)
• Pages: 54–66

Contributors

author

Pietrzak Edyta

• Łódź University of Technology (Poland)

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