The Sentimental Court: The Affective Life of International Criminal Justice

ISBN-13: 9781316512876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 250 str.

Jonas (Freie Universitat Berlin) Bens

Opis

Analyses how atmospheres and sentiments shape the workings of international criminal law in (post-)colonial Africa and beyond.

Recenzje

'In The Sentimental Court, Jonas Bens offers a brilliantly eloquent detailing of the affective life of international criminal justice through this innovative ethnography about the Court and its connections to other sites of justice making. From a person entering the ICC and clearing the security check, to the examination of the constructed narratives of the prosecutor, the victim's representative, and the feelings that such encounters conjure, he offers a deterritorialized mapping of the International Criminal Court's Dominic Ongwen case to show the way that justice atmospheres are sentimentalized in mass-atrocity violence contexts. Not only is the ethnography a wonderful must-read, but it offers precious insights into the wildly complex and unfinished results of the postcolonial condition. With passionate insights about the complexities of justice, Bens clarifies the affective spaces and the fierce stronghold of transnational globalized legal processes in the contemporary period.' Kamari Maxine Clarke, Distinguished Professor of Transnational Justice and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto

Spis treści

Introduction: Affect, emotion and the law; Part I. Atmospheres: 1. Courtroom atmospheres: The courtroom of the ICC as an affective arrangement; 2. Transitional justice atmospheres: The ICC's outreach work in northern Uganda; Part II. Sentiments: 3. The sentiment of plausibility: Affective framing and the production of legal truth; 4. The sentiment of objectivity: Arranging objects and subjects in the ICC courtroom; 5. The sentiment of justice: Navigating normative pluralism in northern Uganda; Part III. Politics: 6. The politics of atmosphere and sentiment: International criminal justice in Africa and competing indignation regimes; 7. We have never been rational: The emotions of liberal legalism and the affective politics of modernity; Epilogue: Affect and colonialism; Bibliography; Index.