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2022-2

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Acar, Ozan

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Transitional justice has been the subject of different disciplines across the spectrum of social sciences. Transitional justice mechanisms have played an important role in restoring legitimacy to state institutions with the ultimate aim of establishing rule of law, order, and to facilitate justice in successor regimes. Despite this, transitional justice processes appear to focus more on nation building and reinstating state legitimacy rather than concentrate on providing victims with justice. In this vein, this thesis proposes that transitional justice may benefit from memory studies in broadening its theoretical scope, especially by incorporating the emerging narratives of victims and their interpretations of past events. It is argued that doing so can ultimately facilitate more pervasive justice on a societal level, as well as helps identify continuities and ruptures of practices of predecessor regimes in successor regimes. As a case study, this thesis focuses on the transitional justice process in Argentina, and the role of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo as a mnemonic community, arguing that the successor regime in Argentina did not necessarily establish a rupture with the predecessor regime of the military junta.

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Plaza de Mayo, human rights, memory studies, collective memory

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/96055

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis