Visibility, Atrocity and the Subject of Postcolonial Justice

Perera, Suvendrini

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Authors

Perera, Suvendrini

Date

2015

Type

Journal Article

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Citation

Perera, S. 2015. Visibility, Atrocity and the Subject of Postcolonial Justice. Borderlands e journal. 14 (1).

Source Title

Borderlands e journal

Additional URLs

http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol14no1_2015/perera_visibility.pdf

ISSN

1447-0810

School

Department of Communication and Cultural Studies

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30050

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

In the context of the 2009 atrocities in Lanka, in this paper I attempt to think through a set of questions about visibility, witness, suffering, accountability and disposability as they are played out in the relations between the necro-geo-politics of global institutions and the patchworks of local and transnational movements that attempt to materialize peoples’ suffering and realize the possibility of justice within fragile and compromised frameworks.