Mirrors of justice : law and power in the post-Cold War era / edited by Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mark Goodale.
"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 thro...
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New York :
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2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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-Be;ne;dicte 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, 1946-1948 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.