Shapiro War Crimes, Atrocity and Justice

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8953-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

What do we know about war crimes and justice? What are thediscursive practices through which the dominant images of warcrimes, atrocity and justice are understood?
In this wide ranging text, Michael J. Shapiro contrasts thejustice-related imagery of the war crimes trial (for example thesolitary, headphone-wearing defendant at the Hague listening withintent to a catalogue of charges) with ?literary justice?:representations in literature, film, and biographical testimony,raising questions about atrocities and justice that juridicalproceedings exclude.
By engaging with the ambiguities exposed by the artistic andexperiential genres, reading them alongside policy and archivaldocumentation and critical theoretical discourses, Shapiro?s WarCrimes, Atrocity, and Justice challenges traditional notions of?responsibility? in juridical settings. His comparative readingsinstead encourage a focus on the conditions of possibility for warcrimes as they arise from the actions of states, non-state agenciesand individuals involved in arms trading, peace keeping, sextrafficking, and law enforcement and adjudication.
Theory springs to life as Shapiro draws on examples from legaldiscourse, literature, media, film, and television, to build anuanced picture of politics and the problem of justice. It will beof great interest to students of film and media, literature,cultural studies, contemporary philosophy and political science

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shapiro, Michael J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1 The Global Justice Dispositif 13
2 Atrocity, Securitization, and Exuberant Lines of Flight 50
3 What does a Weapon See? 80
4 Borderline Justice 119
5 Justice and the Archives 154
Notes 186
Index 210

Über Autor(innen)

Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at theUniversity of Hawai?i at Manoa