This article responds to McGrattan's critique of transitional justice both as a model of dealing with the past and as a field of scholarly inquiry. In contrast to his account, this article asserts that there is an embedded and rigorous approach to uncovering and examining the political within the study of transitional justice mechanisms, and that McGrattan's critique is based on an incomplete and flawed understanding of the literature. The article does however, call for an expansion of political research into transitional justice in meaningful and critical ways.
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