Karma after Democratic Kampuchea: Justice Outside the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
This article considers ways people in Cambodia narrate the Khmer Rouge regime and its genocide outside the bounds of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Based on anthropological fieldwork, I explore how informants use ‘karma’ to discuss the genocide, and by doing so create t...
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| description | This article considers ways people in Cambodia narrate the Khmer Rouge regime and its genocide outside the bounds of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Based on anthropological fieldwork, I explore how informants use ‘karma’ to discuss the genocide, and by doing so create their own understandings and lived experiences of that period of historical violence, understandings that do not fit neatly into the narrative modes created by the courts. By stepping outside the court, I consider ways of dealing with the genocide that exist beyond the international framework of transitional justice, thereby asking wider questions of what justice is and does. Rather than claiming a dichotomy between (inter)national and local forms of providing “justice” and dealing with genocide, I consider the different frameworks to be co-exisiting forms of global interaction; sometimes at odds with each other; sometimes complementary; often times unrelated but important companions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d0aa148785a4499688696664989f54c72022-12-21T19:11:51ZengInternational Association of Genocide ScholarsGenocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal1911-03591911-99332018-12-01123688210.5038/1911-9933.12.3.1567Karma after Democratic Kampuchea: Justice Outside the Khmer Rouge TribunalCaroline Bennett0Victoria University of WellingtonThis article considers ways people in Cambodia narrate the Khmer Rouge regime and its genocide outside the bounds of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Based on anthropological fieldwork, I explore how informants use ‘karma’ to discuss the genocide, and by doing so create their own understandings and lived experiences of that period of historical violence, understandings that do not fit neatly into the narrative modes created by the courts. By stepping outside the court, I consider ways of dealing with the genocide that exist beyond the international framework of transitional justice, thereby asking wider questions of what justice is and does. Rather than claiming a dichotomy between (inter)national and local forms of providing “justice” and dealing with genocide, I consider the different frameworks to be co-exisiting forms of global interaction; sometimes at odds with each other; sometimes complementary; often times unrelated but important companions.https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol12/iss3/10justicekarmaBuddhismgenocideCambodiaKhmer RougeanthropologyECCC |
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| title | Karma after Democratic Kampuchea: Justice Outside the Khmer Rouge Tribunal |
| title_full | Karma after Democratic Kampuchea: Justice Outside the Khmer Rouge Tribunal |
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| title_short | Karma after Democratic Kampuchea: Justice Outside the Khmer Rouge Tribunal |
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| topic | justice karma Buddhism genocide Cambodia Khmer Rouge anthropology ECCC |
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