Domenica Preysing offers a critical reading oftransitional justice that focuses on political
dynamics in post-revolutionaryTunisia from the ouster of president Ben Ali in January 2011
until theadoption of transitional justice bill in December 2013. She explores the role
structure and characteristics of evolving transitional justice policy discourseto provide a
better understanding of how by who and to what effect the policylabel transitional justice is
progressively filled with meaning. She showsthat conflicting interpretations of both the past
and the present have beenboth deeply embedded in and an expression of the dynamic context of
domesticpolitical transformation as old and new elites struggle over the politicalidentity and
direction of post-Ben Ali Tunisia.
