After Violence: Truth, Justice, And Social Repair

(Cross-listed as PJS 165.) Exploration of ways people and states deal with mass violence and approach issues of coexistence, justice, redress, and social reconstruction. Includes international and national justice mechanisms (truth commissions, tribunals, reparations, apologies), informal projects and practices, constructions of "the universal" and "the local." Focus on the negotiation of memory in politically unequal encounters. Recommendations: One sociocultural anthropology course or permission of instructor.