LEADER 05461nam 22007935 450 001 9910808043703321 005 20240418020959.0 010 $a1-283-21201-3 010 $a9786613212016 010 $a0-8122-0327-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203271 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051154 035 $a(OCoLC)759158148 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491851 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000649687 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11363828 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000649687 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10608490 035 $a(PQKB)11125155 035 $a(DE-B1597)449169 035 $a(OCoLC)979577998 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203271 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441394 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051154 100 $a20190708d2010 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aShattered Voices $eLanguage, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions /$fTeresa Godwin Phelps 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia : $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, $d[2010] 210 4$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (189 p.) 225 0 $aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1949-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 163-172) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPrologue for Paulina -- $tChapter One. The Demise of Paulina's Good: From Personal Revenge to State Punishment -- $tChapter Two. The Demonizing of Revenge -- $tChapter Three. Language, Violence, and Oppression -- $tChapter Four. What Can Stories Do? -- $tChapter Five. Telling Stories in a Search for Justice: The Argentinian, Chilean, and Salvadoran Truth Commissions -- $tChapter Six. Telling Stories in a Search for More Than Justice: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- $tChapter Seven. The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aFollowing periods of mass atrocity and oppression, states are faced with a question of critical importance in the transition to democracy: how to offer redress to victims of the old regime without perpetuating cycles of revenge. Traditionally, balance has been restored through arrests, trials, and punishment, but in the last three decades, more than twenty countries have opted to have a truth commission investigate the crimes of the prior regime and publish a report about the investigation, often incorporating accounts from victims.Although many praise the work of truth commissions for empowering and healing through words rather than violence, some condemn the practice as a poor substitute for traditional justice, achieved through trials and punishment. There has been until now little analysis of the unarticulated claim that underlies the truth commissions' very existence: that language-in this case narrative stories-can substitute for violence. Acknowledging revenge as a real and deep human need, Shattered Voices explores the benefits and problems inherent when a fragile country seeks to heal its victims without risking its own future.In developing a theory about the role of language in retribution, Teresa Godwin Phelps takes an interdisciplinary approach, delving into sources from Greek tragedy to Hamlet, from Kant to contemporary theories about retribution, from the Babylonian law codes to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Report. She argues that, given the historical and psychological evidence about revenge, starting afresh by drawing a bright line between past crimes and a new government is both unrealistic and unwise.When grievous harm happens, a rebalancing is bound to occur, whether it is orderly and lawful or disorderly and unlawful. Shattered Voices contends that language is requisite to any adequate balancing, and that a solution is viable only if it provides an atmosphere in which storytelling and subsequent dialogue can flourish. In the developing culture of ubiquitous truth reports, Phelps argues that we must become attentive to the form these reports take-the narrative structure, the use of victims' stories, and the way a political message is conveyed to the citizens of the emerging democracy.By looking concretely at the work and responsibilities of truth commissions, Shattered Voices offers an important and thoughtful analysis of the efficacy of the ways human rights abuses are addressed. 410 0$aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights 606 $aTruth commissions 606 $aHuman rights 606 $aReconciliation 606 $aGovernmental investigations 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE$2bisac 606 $aGeneral$2bisac 606 $aLaw, Politics & Government$2HILCC 606 $aHuman Rights$2HILCC 610 $aHuman Rights. 610 $aLaw. 610 $aPolitical Science. 615 0$aTruth commissions. 615 0$aHuman rights. 615 0$aReconciliation. 615 0$aGovernmental investigations. 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE 615 7$aGeneral 615 7$aLaw, Politics & Government 615 7$aHuman Rights 676 $a323.4/9 700 $aPhelps$b Teresa Godwin, $01623399 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808043703321 996 $aShattered Voices$93957781 997 $aUNINA