Nigel Eltringham (University of Sussex)

Genocide Never Sleeps

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Produktbeschreibung

Genocide Never Sleeps provides an ethnographic account of the messy, human process of international criminal justice at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. It is for readers interested in international criminal justice, human rights, the anthropology of law and contemporary African politics.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781108707398
• ISBN-10: 1108707394
• Artikelnr.: 61445473

Autorenporträt

Nigel Eltringham is a Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex. He has written extensively on the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He is the author of Accounting for Horror: Post-Genocide Debates in Rwanda (2004); contributing editor of Identity, Justice and "Reconciliation" in Contemporary Rwanda (2009) and Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema (2013); and contributing co-editor of Remembering Genocide (2014). He served as Executive Secretary and then Vice-President of the International Network of Genocide Scholars, and has held visiting lectureships at the universities of Gothenburg and Cornell.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: judging the crime of crimes
1. 'When we walk out
what was it all about?'
2. 'Watching the fish in the goldfish bowl'
3. 'Who the hell cares how things are done in the old country'
4. 'They don't say what they mean or mean what they say'
5. 'We are not a truth commission'
Conclusion.