Truth commissions in the established democracies of the Global North: Theoretical and practical perspectives

MI Gawerc - Sociology Compass, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the wake of South Africa's truth‐telling experiment as part of its transition from apartheid to
democracy, truth commissions have become one of the most utilized mechanisms for …

Tracing the limits of epistemic agency in truth-telling about Australian settler colonialism

P Kunjan - Journal of Sociology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The Australian state and much of the settler polity maintain an unresolved contradiction
between fully acknowledging Indigenous people and upholding a system predicated on the …

Reckonings with truth: Sovereign truths on Country

V Barolsky - Journal of Sociology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article analyses grassroots truth-telling in Australia, in the light of the 2017 Uluru
Statement's call for a Makarrata Commission to oversee truth-telling and treaty. Aboriginal …

Reckoning with truth globally: Decolonial possibilities

V Barolsky, L Rodriguez Castro… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This Special Issue interrogates the limitations and possibilities of truth within global efforts to
address historical injustice. Over the past 30 years truth commissions have become …

Indigenous Emancipation: The Fight Against Marginalisation, Criminalisation, and Oppression

G O'Brien, PC Pan, M Sheikh, S Prideaux - Social Inclusion, 2023 - ssoar.info
This thematic issue addresses the challenges faced by Indigenous peoples in protecting
their rights and maintaining their unique cultures and ways of life. Despite residing on all …

Can Transitional Justice Decolonize Settler States?

S Winter - The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and …, 2025 - Springer
People disagree over transitional justice's capacity to help decolonize settler states. This
entry reviews four challenges to the decolonizing potential of transitional justice. Those …

Transitional Justice after BlackLivesMatter: A Comparative Case Study of Truth Commissions for Racial Justice

NA Barr - 2025 - search.proquest.com
Abstract In the summer 2020,“BlackLivesMatter” demonstrations led to the largest civil unrest
across the US since the civil rights movement. Campaigners protested against the …

[PDF][PDF] Neither a joy nor a victory

K Pyykkönen, J Aunesluoma - helda.helsinki.fi
The Sámi1 people are indigenous people who live in Sápmi2, a territory which spans all the
way from central Norway and Sweden through northern Finland to the Russian Kola …

Distributed Truth-Telling: A Model for Moral Revolution and Epistemic Justice in Australia

NJ Bullot, SW Enciso - philpapers.org
This article provides a philosophical response to the need for truth-telling about colonial
history, focussing on the Australian context. The response consists in inviting philosophers …