Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination

Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 0804729964
ISBN-13 : 9780804729963
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination by : Hent de Vries

With the collapse of the bipolar system of global rivalry that dominated world politics after the Second World War, and in an age that is seeing the return of “ethnic cleansing” and “identity politics,” the question of violence, in all of its multiple ramifications, imposes itself with renewed urgency. Rather than concentrating on the socioeconomic or political backgrounds of these historical changes, the contributors to this volume rethink the concept of violence, both in itself and in relation to the formation and transformation of identities, whether individual or collective, political or cultural, religious or secular. In particular, they subject the notion of self-determination to stringent scrutiny: is it to be understood as a value that excludes violence, in principle if not always in practice? Or is its relation to violence more complex and, perhaps, more sinister? Reconsideration of the concepts, the practice, and even the critique of violence requires an exploration of the implications and limitations of the more familiar interpretations of the terms that have dominated in the history of Western thought. To this end, the nineteen contributors address the concept of violence from a variety of perspectives in relation to different forms of cultural representation, and not in Western culture alone; in literature and the arts, as well as in society and politics; in philosophical discourse, psychoanalytic theory, and so-called juridical ideology, as well as in colonial and post-colonial practices and power relations. The contributors are Giorgio Agamben, Ali Behdad, Cathy Caruth, Jacques Derrida, Michael Dillon, Peter Fenves, Stathis Gourgouris, Werner Hamacher, Beatrice Hanssen, Anselm Haverkamp, Marian Hobson, Peggy Kamuf, M. B. Pranger, Susan M. Shell, Peter van der Veer, Hent de Vries, Cornelia Vismann, and Samuel Weber.

Place, Commonality and Judgment

Place, Commonality and Judgment
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9781441176806
ISBN-13 : 1441176802
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Place, Commonality and Judgment by : Andrew Benjamin

A highly original examination of topics in ancient philosophy through the lens of modern European thought. >

Transitional Justice

Transitional Justice
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9781317007272
ISBN-13 : 1317007271
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Transitional Justice by : Christine Bell

This collection on transitional justice sits as part of a library of essays on different concepts of ’justice’. Yet transitional justice appears quite different from other types of justice and fundamental ambiguities characterise the term that raise questions as to how it should sit alongside other concepts of justice. This collection attempts to capture and portray three different dimensions of the transitional justice field. Part I addresses the origins of the field which continue to bedevil it. Indeed the origins themselves are increasingly debated in what is an emergent contested historiography of the field that assists in understanding its contemporary quirks and concerns. Part II addresses and sets out parts of the ’tool-kit’ of transitional justice, which could be understood as the canonical research agenda of the field. Part III tries to convey a sense of the way in which the field is un-folding and extending to new transitions, tools, theories of justice, and self-critique.

The Violence of Law

The Violence of Law
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 769
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ISBN-10 : 9781108675574
ISBN-13 : 1108675573
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Violence of Law by : Jens Meierhenrich

'Lawfare' describes the systematic use and abuse of legal procedure for political ends. This provocative book examines this insufficiently understood form of warfare in post-genocide Rwanda, where it contributed to the making of dictatorship. Jens Meierhenrich provides a redescription of Rwanda's daring experiment in transitional justice known as inkiko gacaca. By dissecting the temporally and structurally embedded mechanisms and processes by which change agents in post-genocide Rwanda manoeuvred to create modified legal arrangements of things past, Meierhenrich reveals an unexpected jurisprudence of violence. Combining nomothetic and ideographic reasoning, he shows that the deformation of the gacaca courts – and thus the rise of lawfare in post-genocide Rwanda – was not preordained but the outcome of a violently structured contingency. The Violence of Law tells a disturbing tale and will appeal to scholars, advanced students, and practitioners of international and comparative law, African studies and human rights.

Birth of Nomos

Birth of Nomos
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 528
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ISBN-10 : 9781474442022
ISBN-13 : 1474442021
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Birth of Nomos by : Thanos Zartaloudis

This is a highly original, interdisciplinary study of the archaic Greek word nomos and its family of words. Includes extracts from ancient sources, in both the original and English translation, to give us a new and complete understanding of nomos and its foundational place in the Western legal tradition.

On Spectrality

On Spectrality
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 0820481300
ISBN-13 : 9780820481302
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis On Spectrality by : David Ratmoko

Ratmoko (English literature, U. of Zurich and comparative literature, Yale U.) traces the genealogy of ghosts through philosophical, literary, and religious texts of the Western canon. He discusses the spectral history of guilt in law, the historical truth of spectrality, spectrality in the era of Christianity and Greek tragedy, and phantom formations after the Renaissance. Annotation :2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Questioning the Foundations of Public Law

Questioning the Foundations of Public Law
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9781509911691
ISBN-13 : 1509911693
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Questioning the Foundations of Public Law by : Michael A Wilkinson

In 2010, Martin Loughlin, Professor of Public Law at the LSE, published Foundations of Public Law, 'an account of the foundation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character'. The book has become a landmark in the field, and it has been said, notably by one of its major critics, that it now provides the 'starting point' for any deeper inquiry into the subject. The purpose of this volume is to engage critically with Foundations – conceptually, comparatively and historically – from the viewpoints of public law, private law, political, social and legal theory, as well as jurisdictional perspectives including the UK, US, India, and Continental Europe. Scholars also consider the legacy and continuing relevance of Foundations in the light of developments in transnational law, global law and regional integration in the European Union.

Law, Violence, and the Possibility of Justice

Law, Violence, and the Possibility of Justice
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 0691048452
ISBN-13 : 9780691048451
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Law, Violence, and the Possibility of Justice by : Austin Sarat

In deeply original essays, the authors build on the seminal work of Robert Cover--one of the few legal scholars ever to consider the question of law and violence. In striving to situate his insights within current political, social, economic, and cultural contexts, they contemplate diverse and interrelated subjects surrounding the theme of law and violence. Among these are the purpose of law as punishment, the increasing number of executions in the United States, prison violence, racial disparity in sentencing, and the meaning of torture. The result is a remarkable volume that stimulates us to reconsider connections that we too often leave unexplored.

The Opinion System

The Opinion System
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 311
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ISBN-10 : 9780823229888
ISBN-13 : 0823229882
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis The Opinion System by : Kirk Wetters

"This book revises the concept of the public sphere by examining opinion as a foundational concept of modernity. Indispensable to ideas like "public opinion" and "freedom of opinion," opinion - though often held in dubious repute - here assumes a central position in modern philosophy, literature, sociology, and political theory. Kirk Wetters focuses on interpretive shifts begun in the Enlightenment and cemented by the French Revolution to restore the concept of "opinion" to a central role in our understanding of the political public sphere." "Addressing an intriguing range of thinkers, some little known to an American readership, Wetters argues that the transformations wrought by opinion are resisted by literary language, which opposes the rigid formalism that compels individuals to identify with their opinions. Rather than forcing thought to bind itself to stable opinions, modern literary forms seek to suspend this moment of closure, so that held opinions do not bring all deliberative processes to a standstill."--BOOK JACKET.

Criminalizing Intimate Image Abuse

Criminalizing Intimate Image Abuse
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 449
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ISBN-10 : 9780198877813
ISBN-13 : 0198877811
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Criminalizing Intimate Image Abuse by : Gian Marco Caletti

Criminalizing Intimate Image Abuse strives to generate new conceptual and theoretical frameworks to address the legal responses to intimate image abuse by bringing together a number of scholars involved in the study of image abuse over recent years.