Motha / van Rijswijk Law, Memory, Violence

Uncovering the Counter-Archive
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-56920-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten

The demand for recognition, responsibility, and reparations is regularly invoked in the wake of colonialism, genocide, and mass violence: there can be no victims without recognition, no perpetrators without responsibility, and no justice without reparations. Or so it seems from law’s limited repertoire for assembling the archive after ‘the disaster’. Archival and memorial practices are central to contexts where transitional justice, addressing historical wrongs, or reparations are at stake. The archive serves as a repository or ‘storehouse’ of what needs to be gathered and recognised so that it can be left behind in order to inaugurate the future. The archive manifests law’s authority and its troubled conscience. It is an indispensable part of the liberal legal response to biopolitical violence. This collection challenges established approaches to transitional justice by opening up new dialogues about the problem of assembling law’s archive. The volume presents research drawn from multiple jurisdictions that address the following questions. What resists being archived? What spaces and practices of memory - conscious and unconscious - undo legal and sovereign alibis and confessions? And what narrative forms expose the limits of responsibility, recognition, and reparations? By treating the law as an ‘archive’, this book traces the failure of universalised categories such as 'perpetrator', 'victim', 'responsibility', and 'innocence,' posited by the liberal legal state. It thereby uncovers law’s counter-archive as a challenge to established forms of representing and responding to violence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Motha, Stewart

van Rijswijk, Honni

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Developing a Counter-archival Sense, Stewart Motha and Honni van Rijswijk 2. A Counter-Archival Sensibility: Picking up Hannah Arendt’s ‘Reflections on Little Rock’, Jennifer Culbert 3. Listening to the Archive / Failing to Hear, Jill Stauffer 4. (Un)remembering: Countering Law’s Archive. Improvisation as Social Practice, Sara Ramshaw and Paul Stapleton 5. Animating the Archive: Artefacts of Law, Trish Luker 6. The File as Hypertext: Documents, Files and the Many Worlds of the Paper State, Mayur Suresh 7. Counter-archive as staging dissensus, Karin van Marle 8. Constitutions Are Not Enough: Museums as Law’s Counter Archive, Stacy Douglas 9. Archiving Victimhood: Practices of Inscription in International Criminal Law, Sara Kendall 10. The Conspiracy Archive: Turkey’s ‘Deep State’ on Trial, Basak Ertür 11. Making a Treaty Archive: Indigenous Rights on the Canadian Development Frontier, Miranda Johnson 12. Schmitt’s Weisheit der Zelle: Rethinking The Concept of the Political, Jacques de Ville

Über Autor(innen)

Stewart Motha is based at the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London; Honni van Rijswijk is in the School of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney