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Mirrors of Justice
Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era

Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world.

Kamari Maxine Clarke (Edited by), Mark Goodale (Edited by)

9781107415201, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 June 2014

358 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.48 kg

'Mirrors of Justice contributes novel starting points and insights to thinking about the interrelationship of international law, new forms of legal pluralism, and the shifting and highly contextualized understandings of justice that permeate international and transnational legal arenas. The contributing authors provide ethnographic accounts that underscore how variously the notion of justice works, and with what limits, in international institutions as well as in collective discourses of commemoration and political struggle. This wide-ranging volume poses provocative questions for scholars in anthropology and the wider law and society field.' Carol Greenhouse, Princeton University

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.

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-Bénédicte 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, 1946–8 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.

Subject Areas: Law & society [LAQ], Comparative law [LAM], Jurisprudence & philosophy of law [LAB], Jurisprudence & general issues [LA]

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