Visibility, Atrocity and the Subject of Postcolonial Justice
In the context of the 2009 atrocities in Lanka, in this paper I attempt to think through a set of questions about visibility, witness, suffering, accountability and disposability as they are played out in the relations between the necro-geo-politics of global institutions and the patchworks of local...
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| description | In the context of the 2009 atrocities in Lanka, in this paper I attempt to think through a set of questions about visibility, witness, suffering, accountability and disposability as they are played out in the relations between the necro-geo-politics of global institutions and the patchworks of local and transnational movements that attempt to materialize peoples’ suffering and realize the possibility of justice within fragile and compromised frameworks. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-300502017-01-30T13:17:10Z Visibility, Atrocity and the Subject of Postcolonial Justice Perera, Suvendrini In the context of the 2009 atrocities in Lanka, in this paper I attempt to think through a set of questions about visibility, witness, suffering, accountability and disposability as they are played out in the relations between the necro-geo-politics of global institutions and the patchworks of local and transnational movements that attempt to materialize peoples’ suffering and realize the possibility of justice within fragile and compromised frameworks. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30050 http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol14no1_2015/perera_visibility.pdf fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Perera, Suvendrini Visibility, Atrocity and the Subject of Postcolonial Justice |
| title | Visibility, Atrocity and the Subject of Postcolonial Justice |
| title_full | Visibility, Atrocity and the Subject of Postcolonial Justice |
| title_fullStr | Visibility, Atrocity and the Subject of Postcolonial Justice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Visibility, Atrocity and the Subject of Postcolonial Justice |
| title_short | Visibility, Atrocity and the Subject of Postcolonial Justice |
| title_sort | visibility, atrocity and the subject of postcolonial justice |
| url | http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol14no1_2015/perera_visibility.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30050 |