Transitional Justice in Relationship to Public Sphere 
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Transitional Justice in Relationship to Public Sphere and Civil Society
Transitional Justice in Relationship to Public Sphere and Civil Society

Theoretical Approaches

Author(s): Edyta B. Pietrzak
Subject(s): Politics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: public sphere; civil society; transitional justice; non-governmental organisations

Summary/Abstract: 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 civil 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.

  • Issue Year: 47/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 54-66
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English