Affective justice : the International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist pushback / Kamari Maxine Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Criminal Court.

African Union.

Criminal law--Africa.

Criminal law.

International crimes--Africa.

International crimes.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Africa.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Criminal justice, Administration of--International cooperation.

International criminal courts--Africa.

International criminal courts.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Assemblages of interconnections

Affective justice as a theorization of rule of law assemblages

Affective justice: applications of the component parts

Genealogies of anti-impunity: sentimentalizing legalism through the encapsulation of the victim to be saved and the perpetrator to be held accountable

Founding moments and founding fathers: shaping publics through sentimental narratives

Bio-mediation and the #bringbackourgirls campaign: making suffering visible through its decoupling from lived spaces

From perpetrator to hero: re-narrating culpability through reattribution

Affects, emotional regimes and the reattribution of international law

Reattribution through the making of an African criminal court

Treaty withdrawal as an affective practice: reattribution through refusal of the irrelevance of official capacity movement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966- Affective justice

ISBN:

9781478006701

1478006706

9781478005759

1478005750

OCLC:

1083459492