RT Article
T1 Knowing what I know now: youth experiences of dictatorship and transitional justice in the Gambia
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 15
IS 3
SP 596
OP 615
A1 Ndow, Aminata
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1797122258
AB This article contributes to the empirical evidence concerning the reception of transitional justice processes and the experiences of youth in contexts of authoritarian rule. It explores how eight students in the Gambia receive, perceive and experience learning about what happened in the past by watching the testimonies told at the Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. Based on conversational interviews, I argue that for the students in this study, the past enters the present as rememory. By recalling their rememories, an imaginative re-construction of the Jammeh past emerges which uncovers how the biopoliticized state functioned in everyday life, how loyalty and obedience to Jammeh was indoctrinated from a young age and how children remember. By paying attention to youth’s rememories and perceptions of the revelations of truth commissions, and the meanings they attribute to these revelations, transitional justice scholars and practitioners can gain a more holistic understanding of how youth experience and make sense of transitional justice processes.
NO Literaturhinweise
K1 Jugend
K1 Diktatur
K1 Transitional Justice
K1 Kollektives Gedächtnis
K1 Alltag
K1 Gambia
DO 10.1093/ijtj/ijab017