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Transitional justice as neoliberal apparatus: power, subjectivity and sacrificial violence by Bowsher, Josh

“…Secondly, by drawing on René Girard’s theory of sacrifice, the thesis shows that the central mechanisms of the apparatus, that is, trials and truth commissions, are practices of ‘sacrificial violence’ designed to expel the ‘evil’ of the past and lay a foundation for the neoliberal society that comes after. …”
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