Documenting syria: Film-making, video activism and revolution

Fenwick, James

doi:10.1080/01439685.2020.1773089

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“…Tapping into the relatively wide reach of their medium, they hoped to capture the attention of audiences in the Global North and to foster action. As of 2013, Syrian films attracted international attention, leading among others to the first Oscar-nominations in Syrian film history for Last Men in Aleppo and For Sama (Wessels, 2019). 6 Although the concern with 'presencing' victims' realities is omnipresent among the interviewees, there are different perspectives on how best to avoid erasure, ranging from realistic to more symbolic renditions of harm.…”

Section: The Growing Importance Of Informal Truth Practicesmentioning

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Moving Beyond Formal Truth Practices and Forensic Truth in the Syrian Conflict: How Informal Truth Practices Contribute to Thicker Understandings of Truth

Herremans

Destrooper

2022

Social & Legal Studies

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Truth is a central concept in the struggle for justice for Syrians. Many justice actors have turned to the tools and rhetoric of transitional justice to further the quest for justice and truth. Yet, while doing so has allowed them to generate some international attention for victims, the transitional justice paradigm has several pitfalls. For one, the dominant understanding of truth and truth-seeking embraced in formal mechanisms tends to be narrowly defined as forensic truth. We argue on the basis of interviews with Syrian justice actors and artists that informal, including artistic, practices can entail a thicker understanding of truth. They have the potential to disrupt several shortcomings of forensic understanding of truth and formal practices. They can ‘presence’ experiences of harm, accommodate multivocal truths, and enable epistemic resistance. Therefore, we consider how transitional justice as a field of scholarship and practice could better engage with truth-seeking in inconclusive contexts where formal truth mechanisms may be unavailable.

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Section: The Growing Importance Of Informal Truth Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%