International Journal of Transitional Justice Advance Access originally published online on June 3, 2008
International Journal of Transitional Justice 2008 2(2):247-248; doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijn009
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Greg Grandin and Thomas Miller Klubock, eds. Truth Commissions: State Terror, History, and Memory, a special issue of Radical History Review 97
Deputy Director, Research, International Center for Transitional Justice. parthur@ictj.org
(Winter 2007). 184pp.
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What does Radical History Review have to say about truth commissions? The journal gives them mixed reviews in this special issue, Truth Commissions: State Terror, History, and Memory. According to the authors of the three full-length articles which make up the volume, truth commissions treatment of past violence may sometimes hew too closely to depoliticized narratives of individual victims and perpetrators – foregoing deeper accounts of structural violence. Or, their