Phenomenal Justice

"Insightful and engaging, Phenomenal Justice makes an important contribution to the anthropology of emotion and to understanding the ways that feelings and structural factors shape the lived experience of justice. This is an impressive piece of work.”

"Eva van Roekel’s riveting account of the prolonged search for truth and reconciliation in the wake of Argentina’s Military Dictatorship sheds new light on the vexed relationships between political, legal, moral, ritual, and emotional processes of recovering from trauma or arriving at a point where justice is felt to have been done."

"New Books Network" interview with Eva van Roekel
https://player.fm/series/new-books-network-2472510/eva-van-roekel-phenomenal-justice-violence-and-morality-in-argentina-rutgers-up-2020

"Transcending a simple right-versus-wrong dichotomy, the author writes an engaging narrative that invites the reader to embrace the complex subtleties of violence and morality, and of truth and reconciliation, in post-conflict Argentina, and by extension in the world at large. Phenomenal Justice is invaluable for students of anthropology and sociology who are approaching their first extensive fieldwork experience. Highly recommended." 

"Van Roekel’s final defence of phenomenal anthropology as a tool for the analysis violence and its aftermath is a convincing one, and the book will have broad appeal to scholars interested in Argentine cultural and political history and transitional justice, memory and philosophy beyond Argentina as we seek to understand more about violence and (ongoing) injustice."

"Phenomenal Justice examines what its author calls “the anthropology of emotion” and focuses on the reactions provoked by the 2005 ruling from Argentina’s Supreme Court that declared unconstitutional the amnesty laws blocking prosecution for crimes committed under the military dictatorship."