ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses civil party participation at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) as a space for resistance and negotiation of victim subject positions. Qualitative semi-structured interviews with civil parties, ECCC staff and civil society members, as well as observations and analysis of trial transcripts, highlight two main themes of resistance: resistance for individual, financial reparations and resistance against the ECCC’s limited temporal jurisdiction. This chapter argues that engaging with these forms of resistance of the supposed beneficiaries of transitional justice illuminates how victim subject positions become produced in transitional justice processes and how civil parties resist the depoliticisation of their participation.
