Mirrors of Justice (eBook, PDF)

Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era
Redaktion: Clarke, Kamari Maxine

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Produktbeschreibung

Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The book brings together a group of both prominent and emerging scholars to reconsider the relationships between justice, international law, culture, power, and history through case studies of a wide range of justice processes. The book's eighteen authors examine the ambiguities of justice in Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Melanesia through critical empirical and historical chapters. The introduction makes an important contribution to our understanding of the multiplicity of justice in the twenty-first century by providing an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that synthesizes the book's chapters with leading-edge literatures on human rights, legal pluralism, and international law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511654671
• Artikelnr.: 38202823

Autorenporträt

Contributors: Mark Goodale, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Sally Engle Merry, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Michael McGovern, Signe Howell, Benson Chinedu Olugbuo, Galit A. Sarfaty, Susan F. Hirsch, Joel Robbins, Amy Elizabeth Young, Rosalind Shaw, Elizabeth Drexler, Jeanne Guillemin, Jane K. Cowan, Lisa J. Laplante, Kimberly Theidon, Laura Nader.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Understanding the multiplicity of justice Mark Goodale and
Kamari Maxine Clarke; 1. Beyond compliance: toward an anthropological
understanding of international justice Sally Engle Merry; Part I. Justice
and the Geographies of International Law: 2. Postcolonial denial: why the
European Court of Human Rights finds it so difficult to acknowledge racism
Marie-Bénédicte Dembour; 3. Proleptic justice: the threat of investigation
as a deterrent to human rights abuses in Côte d'Ivoire Michael McGovern; 4.
Global governmentality: the case of transnational adoption Signe Howell; 5.
Implementing the International Criminal Court Treaty in Africa: the role of
NGOs and government agencies in constitutional reform Benson Chinedu
Olugbuo; 6. Measuring justice: internal conflict over the World Bank's
empirical approach to human rights Galit A. Sarfaty; Part II. Justice,
Power, and Narratives of Everyday Life: 7. The victim deserving of global
justice: power, caution, and recovering individuals Susan F. Hirsch; 8.
Recognition, reciprocity, and justice: Melanesian reflections on the rights
of relationships Joel Robbins; 9. Irreconcilable differences? Shari'ah,
human rights, and family code reform in contemporary Morocco Amy Elizabeth
Young; 10. The production of 'forgiveness': God, justice, and state failure
in postwar Sierra Leone Rosalind Shaw; Part III. Justice, Memory, and the
Politics of History: 11. Impunity and paranoia: writing histories of
Indonesian violence Elizabeth Drexler; 12. National security, WMD, and the
selective pursuit of justice at the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, 1946-8 Jeanne
Guillemin; 13. Justice and the League of Nations minority regime Jane K.
Cowan; 14. Commissioning truth, constructing silences: the Peruvian TRC and
the other truths of 'terrorists' Lisa J. Laplante and Kimberly Theidon;
Epilogue. The words we use: justice, human rights, and the sense of
injustice Laura Nader.