Mirrors of justice
Subtitle: law and power in the post-Cold War era
By: edited by Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mark Goodale.
Contributors: Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966-; Goodale, Mark.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521195379
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects; Human rights; Crimes against humanity
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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.