‘Calling for Inclusion’: Negotiating Boundaries in the Transitional Justice Script

As transitional justice (TJ) has gained prominence as a global informal standard, it continues to receive critique for its limitations. This article examines the negotiation of the boundaries of TJ prompted by calls for inclusion, specifically of environmental justice and corporate accountability. Through a novel conceptualization of TJ's possible ‘substantive expansion’, and by building on theory on boundary work and standardization, the study contributes to TJ scholarship by highlighting paradoxes of TJ's standardization: firstly, it both restricts and encourages substantive expansion. Secondly, the adoption of new issues into the script does not guarantee enforcement, leading to a norms-enforcement paradox.