Matthew Evans is a Senior Lecturer in Law, Politics, and Sociology at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, and Visiting Researcher in Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his PhD at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York, York, UK. His research focuses upon human rights, especially socioeconomic rights, transformative justice, and the roles of social movements, non-governmental organisations, and trade unions in advocacy networks. He is the author of Transformative Justice: Remedying Human Rights Violations Beyond Transition (Routledge, 2018) and editor of Transitional and Transformative Justice: Critical and International Perspectives (Routledge, 2019).

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INTRODUCTION

1. In, Against, and Beyond Transitional Justice: Themes and dilemmas for the field (or non-field) Matthew Evans

PART 1: CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS AND BORDERS

2. The Uses of Transitional Justice as a Field Maja Davidovic
3. Crisis, Faith, and Transformation in Transitional Justice Dustin N. Sharp
4. Beyond Disciplines, Beyond Fields, Beyond Transitional Justice Matthew Evans

PART 2: NEW METHODS AND APPROACHES

5. Foregrounding Transitional Justice Success through the Development of Thin Sympathy Joanna R. Quinn
6. 'Greening' Transitional Justice? Rachel Killean and Lauren Dempster
7. Transforming Experiences of Citizen Security? Dáire McGill
8. What role for social scientific research in transformative justice? Eric Hoddy

CONCLUSION

9. Transitional Justice: Understanding the field Christine Bell

Index