The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice is an authoritative guide to the rapidly growing domain of transitional justice-the practices and processes of reckoning pursued in the aftermath of historic injustice. Since the neologism's coining in the late 1990s, <"transitional justice> " has become one of the 21st century's most influential practices of international humanitarianism. However, transitional justice projects often conceal the very violence they are intended to address - or even inflict further violence on victims of atrocities. Across 48 genre-bending chapters, the Handbook explores, articulates, and advances a multifaceted critique of transitional justice. Ranging innovatively across space and time, it interrogates the nature and legacies of the <"justice cascade> " that the prosecution of international crimes is said to have inspired. An interdisciplinary cast of leading scholars questions the meaning and efficacy of transitional justice's modalities, which range from archives to courts; from memorials to reparations. In so doing, this volume's authors critically challenge the panglossian orthodoxies that have accumulated and ossified around efforts to come to terms with violent pasts, from colonialism to genocide. This global endeavor is not one of tear-down, however. Rather, it points toward a reimagined project that is more clear-eyed about the promises of transitional justice-and its inherent limits. A definitive work on the subject, The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in practices of reckoning.

Table of Contents:
I INTRODUCTION 1: Jens Meierhenrich, Alexander Laban Hinton, and Lawrence Douglas: The Critique of Transitional Justice II TELEOLOGIES, OR: THE ENDS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 2: Claire Moon: What We Talk About When We Talk about Transitional JusticeDLAnd What We Don> 't 3: Adam Sitze: The Hopes of Transitional Justice 4: Andrew Woolford: Reparative Governmentalities in Transitional Justice 5: Makau W. Mutua: A Problem of Utopia: Human Rights and Transitional Justice 6: Alexander Keller Hirsch: Mourning in Transitional Justice 7: Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba, Benjamin Maiangwa: Memory/Remedy: The Soothsayer's Practice 8: Oliver P. Richmond: Peace and Transitional Justice III TECHNOLOGIES, OR: THE MEANS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 9: Milena Ang, Monika Nalepa: What Quantitative and Formal Methods Teach Us about Transitional Justice 10: John Torpey: The Justice of Reparations 11: Nick Smith: Apologies and Transitional Justice: Myths, Complexities, and Warnings 12: Jamie Rowen: Rethinking Transitional Justice with the Insights of Political Sociology 13: Diane M. Nelson: Making Visible: Mathematics and Transitional Justice 14: Sarah Wagner, Maria Alexandra Lopez-Cerquera, Sarah L. Richardson: Technoscientific Truth-Making: Forensic Science and the Politics of Recognition 15: Joachim J. Savelsberg: Media and Transitional Justice 16: Nancy Amoury Combs: The Facts of Transitional Justice 17: Jelena Suboti'c: The International Entrepreneurs of Transitional Justice 18: Geoff Dancy, Kathryn Sikkink: The Data of Transitional Justice IV TOPOGRAPHIES, OR: THE SITES OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 19: Judith Resnik: Courts in the United States: A Template and a Site of Transitional Justice, Collapsing as a Model 20: Anuradha Chakravarty: Transitional Justice of the Grassroots: A Comparative Survey 21: Nigel Eltringham: Local/e 22: Leena Grover: Managerialism at the United Nations 23: Catherine Cole: Performance Matters in Transitional Times 24: Marie Berry, Milli Lake, Jemima Ackah-Arthur: Gendering Transitional Justice 25: Henry Redwood: Archiving Justice 26: Laia Balcells, Elsa Voytas: What Difference Do Museums Make? 27: Jonas Bens: The Affects of Transitional Justice 28: Carrol Clarkson: The Aesthetics of Transitional Justice 29: Tamara Tro%st: History Textbooks and Transitional Justice 30: Leigh A. Payne, Gabriel Pereira, Laura Bernal-Bermúdez: The Business of Transitional Justice V TRAJECTORIES, OR: THE DYNAMICS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 31: Devin O. Pendas: Just Transitions 32: Marcos Zunino: Haunted by Three Spirits: The Afterlives of Past, Present, and Future Transitional Justice 33: Richard Ashby Wilson, Vladimir Petrovi'c: Contesting Histories: The Historical Accounts of Transitional Justice Institutions 34: Chris Cunneen: Settler Colonial States and Transitional Justice 35: Marita Eastmond, Johanna Mannergren Selimovic: Silence and Transitional Justice 36: Cyanne E. Loyle, Christian Davenport: Patterns of Injustice 37: Briony Jones, Julie Bernath: Resistance and Transitional Justice 38: Pascha Bueno-Hansen: Heteronormativity and Transitional Justice 39: Paul Gready: From Transitional to Transformative Justice VI TEMPORALITIES, OR: THE HISTORIES OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 40: Zinaida Miller: Transitional Justice Temporalities 41: Adriaan Lanni: Transitional Justice in the Ancient World 42: Jenny Benham, Jamie Smith: Was There Transitional Justice in the Medieval World? 43: Kim Christian Priemel: Genealogies of Transitional Justice 44: Kamari Maxine Clarke: Transitional Justice in African Contexts through the Institutionalization of Emotional Affects 45: Naomi Roht-Arriaza: Transitional Justice in Latin America 46: Alexander Laban Hinton: Orientalism and the Transitional Justice Imaginary in Asia 47: Annette Weinke: Transitional Justice in Europe 48: Noha Aboueldahab: Transitional Justice in the Arab Region: An Intellectual and Practical Inquiry