The Transitional Devise: From the Administration of Uncertainty to the Emergence of New Socialities
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20-03-2021
Alejandro Castillejo
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6441-6609
Abstract
In this text I would like to propose a discussion on Transitional Justice (JT) within the framework of what I will define, with an ethnographic vision, as “transitional scenario”. I would like to argue that transitions, beyond a formalized and codified language that constitutes the hegemonic field of JT, refers also to a cultural and social phenomenon insofar as the categories that constitute the world of war and conflict or the categories in which we inhabit it collapse in order to produce others. The idea of a "transitional scenario" constitutes a matrix of analysis of what is essentially the management of uncertainty. This paper is based on my ethnographic work in South Africa, Colombia, and Perú, and seeks to understand this scenario as a device in which the materialization of the State, through a series of practices of spacialization, naming and terrotorialization taking into account examples of Colombia, is constitutive of new communalities. At the end, the article proposes the need of a critical studies agenda on political transitions.
How to Cite
Castillejo, A. (2021). The Transitional Devise: From the Administration of Uncertainty to the Emergence of New Socialities. Papeles De Identidad, 2021(1), papel 240. https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.21624
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Keywords
transitional scenario, Colombia, critical studies on political transitions, ethnography
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Castillejo-Cuéllar, A. (2016). El plebiscito como problema moral. En E. Rueda, S.V. Alvarado y P. Gentilli (Eds.), Paz en Colombia: Perspectivas, Desafíos, Opciones (121-126). Buenos Aires: CLACSO.
Castillejo-Cuéllar, A. (ed.) (2017). La ilusión de la justicia transicional: perspectivas críticas desde el Sur Global. Bogotá: Uniandes.
Castillejo-Cuéllar, A. (2018). Del Ahogado el Sombrero, a manera de manifiesto: Esbozos a una Crítica al Discurso Transicional. Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 15, 1-16
Castillejo-Cuéllar, A. (2019). La Paz en Pequeña Escala: Fracturas de la vida cotidiana y Políticas de la transición en Colombia. Revista de Estudios Colombianos, 53, 6-10
Das, V. (2008). Sufrimientos, teodiceas, prácticas disciplinarias y apropiaciones. En F.A. Ortega (Ed.), Veena Das: Sujetos del dolor, agentes de dignidad (pp. 437-458). Bogotá/Medellín: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
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Ehrenreich-Brooks, R. (2003). The New Imperialism: Violence, Norms, and the ‘Rule of Law’. Michigan Law Review, 101, 7: 2275-2340.
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Leebaw, B. (2008). The Irreconcilable Goals of Transitional Justice. Human Rights Quarterly, 30, 95-118.
Lévi-Strauss, C. (1994/1979). Antropología Estructural. Ciudad de México: Siglo XXI.
Lundy, P., y McGovern, M. (2008). Whose Justice? Rethinking Transitional Justice from the Bottom Up. Journal of Law and Society, 35(2), 265-292.
Marinovich, G. (1999). The Dead Zone: The Confined Space of Political Conflict, Thokosa Township. En J. Hilton y I. Vladislavic (Eds.), Architecture. Apartheid and After (pp. 469-482). Johannesburg: NAI Publications.
Marinovich, G., y Silva, J. (2002). The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots of a Hidden War. London: Arrow.
Marks, M. (2001). Young Warriors: Youth Politics, Identity and Violence in South Africa. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University press.
McAuliffe, P. (2017). Transformative Transitional Justice and the Malleability of Post-Conflict States. London: Eduard Elgar.
Murphy, C. (2017). The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice. Cambridge: University Press.
Newman, E., Paris, R., y Richmond, O. (Eds.) (2009). New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding. Tokio, New York, París: United Nations University Press.
Niehaus, I. (2001). Witchcraft, Power and Politics: Exploring the Occult in the South African Lowveld. London and New York: Pluto Press.
Rosa Mendes, P. (2003). Bay of Tigers: A Journey Through War-torn Angola. Jeppestown: Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Roth-Arriaza, N., y Mariezcurrena, J. (Eds.) 2006. Transitional Justice in the Twenty-first Century: Beyond Truth Versus Justice. Cambridge: University Press.
Sharma, A., y Gupta, A. (2006). Anthropology of the State: A Reader London: Blackwell Publishing
Sharp, D. (2012). Addressing Economic Violence in Times of Transition: Toward a Positive-Peace Paradigm for Transitional Justice. Fordham International Law Journal, 35, 379-414.
Sharp, D. (2013a). Beyond the Post-Conflict Checklist: Linking Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice through the Lens of Critique. Chicago Journal of International Law, 14(1), 165-196.
Sharp, D. (2013b). Interrogating the Peripheries: The Preoccupations of Forth Generation Transitional Justice. Harvard Human Rights Journal, 26, 149-178.
Shaw, M. (2002). Crime and Policing in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Transforming Under Fire. Cape Town: David Philips Publishers.
Steward, I. (2003). Freetown Ambush: A War Reporter’s Life on the Line. London: Vision.
Teitel, R. (2003). Transitional Justice Genealogy. Harvard Human Rights Journal, 16, 69-94.
TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa). 1998. Ciudad del Cabo: Final Report.
Turner, V. (1988). El Proceso Ritual: Estructura y Antiestructura. Madrid: Taurus.
Van Gennep, A. (2008/1908). Ritos de Paso: Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
White, L. (2000). Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa: Berkeley: University of California Press.
Wrong, M. (2000). In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Leaving on the brink of Disaster in Congo. London: Fourth Estate.
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