Transitional Justice in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia (2011-2013) / Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens (PDF)

Domenica Preysing offers a critical reading of
"transitional justice" that focuses on political dynamics in post-revolutionary
Tunisia, from the ouster of president Ben Ali in January 2011 until the
adoption of transitional justice bill in December 2013. She explores the role,
structure and characteristics of evolving transitional justice policy discourse
to provide a better understanding of how, by who, and to what effect the policy
label "transitional justice" is progressively filled with meaning. She shows
that conflicting interpretations of both the past and the present have been
both deeply embedded in and an expression of the dynamic context of domestic
political transformation, as old and new elites struggle over the political
identity and direction of post-Ben Ali Tunisia.

Contents

• Transitional
  Justice Discourse in Transition
• Post-structuralistPolitical Discourse Theory
• From
  Discourse Theory to Discourse Analysis
• A Brief
  Chronology of Political Transition in Tunisia
• "Transitional
  Justice" in Political Transition
• Lustration:
  The Discursive Struggle over Political Exclusion
• Reparations:
  The Discursive Struggle for Recognition

Target
Groups

• Researchers
  and students in political science and Middle East Studies
• Practitioners
  in the field of foreign policy and development cooperation

The Author

Domenica Preysing has spent several years working in
development policy, research and consulting with a special focus on the Middle
East.