Publication

2019 - Duke University Press, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

87,750 words, Guess

Page Count

351 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveaffectivejustice00clar
  • ISBN-101478006706
  • ISBN-101478005750
  • ISBN-139781478006701
  • ISBN-139781478005759
and 8 more
  • ISBN-139781478007388
  • ISBN-101478007389
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019013454
  • OCLC Control Number1083459492
  • Better World Books9781478006701
  • Better World Books9781478005759
  • Better World Books9781478007388
  • Open LibraryOL27800237M

Classifications

  • DDC345/.01
  • LCCKZ7312 .C537 2019
  • LCCKZ7312.C537 2019
and 1 more
  • LCCKZ7312

Description

"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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