Interactions between theatre and performance studies and trauma and memory studies have grown in depth and ampleur in the last two decades. Theatre and performance can offer new perspectives on, and potential coping mechanisms for, dealing with trauma that are also salient to other fields of study, such as transitional justice. Literature on transitional justice deals with the question of how societies can deal with violence and trauma inflicted by predecessor regimes. This literature stands to be enriched by theatre and performance scholars’ experience with the transformation of trauma, violence, complexity and confusion. Yet, the dominance of legal practitioners in this field has given rise to a learned blind spot for theatre and performance studies, and also scholars in the field of theatre and performance studies themselves have been reluctant to address transitional justice practitioners and scholars. This article proposes a normative and praxis-based perspective on the potential and desirability of integrating insights from the field of theatre and performance studies into transitional justice studies. I do not consider one specific – set of – plays, but rather the techniques and assumptions which theatre makers have been using in their work in transitional societies. The article urges theatre and performance scholars to engage more fully with the domain of transitional justice, in order to increase the legitimacy of performance-based initiatives in the context of transitional justice interventions and to recast some of the basic assumptions of the transitional justice architecture.

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表演正义？戏剧和表演在促进过渡时期司法方面的作用

在过去的二十年里，戏剧和表演研究以及创伤和记忆研究之间的互动已经深入而丰富。戏剧和表演可以为处理创伤提供新的视角和潜在的应对机制，这对于其他研究领域也很重要，例如过渡司法。关于过渡正义的文献涉及社会如何应对前任政权造成的暴力和创伤的问题。戏剧和表演学者在转变创伤、暴力、复杂性和困惑方面的经验将丰富这些文献。然而，法律从业者在这一领域的主导地位导致了戏剧和表演研究的学问盲点，并且戏剧和表演研究领域的学者们自己也不愿意向过渡司法从业者和学者发表讲话。本文就将戏剧和表演研究领域的见解整合到过渡正义研究中的潜力和可取性提出了一个规范和基于实践的观点。我不考虑一个特定的——一套——戏剧，而是戏剧制作者在过渡社会的工作中使用的技术和假设。本文敦促戏剧和表演学者更充分地参与过渡司法领域，以在过渡司法干预的背景下提高基于表演的举措的合法性，并重塑过渡司法架构的一些基本假设。