How can transitional justice take root where there is no transition? This book confronts this central tension by examining the Kurdish conflict in Turkey - a context where the absence of a transitional moment has not prevented grassroots actors from building a justice process of their own. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, it maps the transitional justice ecosystem in Turkey: the actors who sustain it, the demands they articulate, the strategies they pursue, and the networks they forge under conditions of ongoing conflict and authoritarian regime.
Rather than treating transitional justice as something imposed from above, the book situates civil society as its driving force, contributing to a broader rethinking of the field. Its conceptual contribution lies in the application of relationality as an analytical lens, drawing on feminist moral philosophy and relational sociology to unpack complex victim agency. The book offers empirical and theoretical tools for scholars and practitioners studying justice struggles in contexts that resist easy categorisation.
| ISBN: | 9783032183378 |
| Publication date: | 11th June 2026 |
| Author: | Günes Dasli |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies |
| Genres: |
Peace studies and conflict resolution Human rights, civil rights Terrorism, armed struggle Sociology Politics and government |
How can transitional justice take root where there is no transition? This book confronts this central tension by examining the Kurdish conflict in Turkey - a context where the absence of a transitional moment has not prevented grassroots actors from building a justice process of their own. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, it maps the transitional justice ecosystem in Turkey: the actors who sustain it, the demands they articulate, the strategies they pursue, and the networks they forge under conditions of ongoing conflict and authoritarian regime.
Rather than treating transitional justice as something imposed from above, the book situates civil society as its driving force, contributing to a broader rethinking of the field. Its conceptual contribution lies in the application of relationality as an analytical lens, drawing on feminist moral philosophy and relational sociology to unpack complex victim agency. The book offers empirical and theoretical tools for scholars and practitioners studying justice struggles in contexts that resist easy categorisation.
Transitional Justice Without Transition features in the following genres: Peace studies and conflict resolution, Human rights, civil rights, Terrorism, armed struggle, Sociology, Politics and government
Transitional Justice Without Transition is available in Hardback
Transitional Justice Without Transition was written by Günes Dasli and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland
Transitional Justice Without Transition has 160 pages
Yes it is part of Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies series
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