RT Article
T1 From victims and mothers to citizens: gender-just transformative reparations and the need for public and private transitions
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 12
IS 1
SP 88
OP 107
A1 Weber, Sanne
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1843831740
AB Colombia’s 2011 Victims’ Law is often seen as an example of best practice in transitional justice, combining land restitution and individual and collective reparations. This law builds on the increasingly popular concept of transformative reparations and moreover prescribes a ‘differential focus’ to guarantee the inclusion and protection of groups considered to be especially vulnerable. Based on nine months of ethnographic and participatory visual fieldwork in two villages in Colombia’s Caribbean coast, this article discusses how this ‘differential focus’ plays out in practice by critiquing the way in which it is based on a highly essentialized and narrow understanding of gender. Based on the experiences and ideas of women involved in the Victims’ Law process, the article suggests how a focus on citizenship could offer a new approach to reparations, with more potential for transforming gender inequality.
K1 Gender
K1 Reparations
K1 Citizenship
K1 Colombia
K1 Displacement
DO 10.1093/ijtj/ijx030