Mirrors of justice : law and power in the post-Cold War era / edited by Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mark Goodale.
2010
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Mirrors of justice : law and power in the post-Cold War era / edited by Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mark Goodale.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Formatted Contents Note
Beyond compliance : toward an anthropological understanding of international justice / Sally Engle Merry
Postcolonial denial : why the European court of human rights finds it so difficult to acknowledge racism / Marie-Be⁺ѓne⁺ѓdicte Dembour
Proleptic justice : the threat of investigation as a deterrent to human rights abuses in Co⁺єte d'Ivoire / Mike McGovern
Global governmentality : the case of transnational adoption / Signe Howell
Implementing the International Criminal Court treaty in Africa : the role of nongovernmental organizations and government agencies in constitutional reform / Benson Chinedu Olugbuo
Measuring justice : internal conflict over the World Bank's empirical approach to human rights / Galit A. Sarfaty
The victim deserving of global justice : power, caution, and recovering individuals / Susan F. Hirsch
Recognition, reciprocity, and justice : melanesian reflections on the rights of relationships / Joel Robbins
Irreconcilable differences? Shari'ah, human rights, and family code reform in contemporary Morocco / Amy Elizabeth Young
The production of "forgiveness" : God, justice, and state failure in post-war Sierra Leone / Rosalind Shaw
Impunity and paranoia : writing histories in Indonesian violence / Elizabeth F. Drexler
National security, weapons of mass destruction, and the selective pursuit of justice at the Tokyo war crimes trial, 1946-1948 / Jeanne Guillemin
Justice and the League of Nations minority regime / Jane K. Cowan
Commissioning truth, constructing silences : the Peruvian Truth Commission 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.
Postcolonial denial : why the European court of human rights finds it so difficult to acknowledge racism / Marie-Be⁺ѓne⁺ѓdicte Dembour
Proleptic justice : the threat of investigation as a deterrent to human rights abuses in Co⁺єte d'Ivoire / Mike McGovern
Global governmentality : the case of transnational adoption / Signe Howell
Implementing the International Criminal Court treaty in Africa : the role of nongovernmental organizations and government agencies in constitutional reform / Benson Chinedu Olugbuo
Measuring justice : internal conflict over the World Bank's empirical approach to human rights / Galit A. Sarfaty
The victim deserving of global justice : power, caution, and recovering individuals / Susan F. Hirsch
Recognition, reciprocity, and justice : melanesian reflections on the rights of relationships / Joel Robbins
Irreconcilable differences? Shari'ah, human rights, and family code reform in contemporary Morocco / Amy Elizabeth Young
The production of "forgiveness" : God, justice, and state failure in post-war Sierra Leone / Rosalind Shaw
Impunity and paranoia : writing histories in Indonesian violence / Elizabeth F. Drexler
National security, weapons of mass destruction, and the selective pursuit of justice at the Tokyo war crimes trial, 1946-1948 / Jeanne Guillemin
Justice and the League of Nations minority regime / Jane K. Cowan
Commissioning truth, constructing silences : the Peruvian Truth Commission 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.
Summary
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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Language
English
ISBN
9780511657511 ebook
9780521195379 (hardback)
9781107415201 (paperback)
9780521195379 (hardback)
9781107415201 (paperback)
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