Transitional Justice in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia (2011–2013)

Domenica Preysing offers a critical reading of
“transitional justice” that focuses on political dynamics in post-revolutionary
Tunisia, from the ouster of president Ben Ali in January 2011 until the
adoption of transitional justice bill in December 2013. She explores the role,
structure and characteristics of evolving transitional justice policy discourse
to provide a better understanding of how, by who, and to what effect the policy
label “transitional justice” is progressively filled with meaning. She shows
that conflicting interpretations of both the past and the present have been
both deeply embedded in and an expression of the dynamic context of domestic
political transformation, as old and new elites struggle over the political
identity and direction of post-Ben Ali Tunisia.