Imagining the international : crime, justice, and the promise of community / Nesam McMillan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMillan, Nesam, 1979- author.

Series:

Cultural lives of law.

Cultural lives of law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International crimes.

International criminal law.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages).

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

International crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an international community seized by the need to act. Through an analysis of archival and contemporary data, Imagining the International provides a detailed picture of how ideas of international crime (crimes against all of humanity) and global justice are given content, foregrounding their ethical limits and potentials. Nesam McMillan argues that dominant approaches to these ideas problematically disconnect them from the lived and the specific and foster distance between those who have experienced international crime and those who have not. McMillan draws on interdisciplinary work spanning law, criminology, humanitarianism, socio-legal studies, cultural studies, and human geography to show how understandings of international crime and justice hierarchize, spectacularize, and appropriate the suffering of others and promote an ideal of justice fundamentally disconnected from life as it is lived. McMillan critiques the mode of global interconnection they offer, one which bears resemblance to past colonial global approaches and which seeks to foster community through the image of crime and the practice of punitive justice. This book powerfully underscores the importance of the ideas of international crime and justice and their significant limits, cautioning against their continued valorization.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Ideas of “International” Crime and Justice

1. On International Crime, Justice, and Community

2. “Rwanda”: The Production of a Global Event

3. International Crime as Spectacle: Scale, Subjectivity, Ethics

4. The Ideal of International Criminal Justice: Transcendence, Otherness, Myth

Conclusion: Community Beyond Crime: Untethering International Crime, Justice, and Community

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503612822

1503612821

OCLC:

1129393605