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"Since its inception in 2001, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been met with resistance by various African states and their leaders, who see the court as a new iteration of colonial violence and control. In Affective Justice Kamari Maxine Clarke explores the African Union's pushback against the ICC in order to theorize affect's role in shaping forms of justice in the contemporary period. Drawing on fieldwork in The Hague, the African Union in Addis Ababa, sites of post-election Violence in Kenya, and in Boko Haram's circuits in Northern Nigeria, Clarke formulates the concept of affective justice--an emotional response to competing interpretations of justice--to trace how affect becomes manifest in judicial practices. By detailing the effects of the ICC's all African-indictments, she outlines how affective responses to this call into question the 'objectivity' of ICC's mission to protect those victimized by violence and prosecute perpetrators of those crimes. In analyzing the effects of such cases, Clarke provides a fuller theorization of how people articulate what justice is and the mechanisms through which they do so"--
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African Union, Administration of Criminal justice, International Criminal Court, International criminal courts, Criminal law, International cooperation, LAW / International, International crimes, Criminal justice, administration of, Criminal law, africa, International criminal law, Bürgerkrieg, Humanitäres Völkerrecht, Rechtsethnologie, Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit, Völkerstrafrecht, Afrikanische Union, Internationaler Strafgerichtshof, Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtPlaces
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Affective justice: the International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist pushback
2019
in English
1478006706 9781478006701
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