Imagining the International
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Imagining the International

Crime, Justice, and the Promise of Community

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Imagining the International

Crime, Justice, and the Promise of Community

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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.

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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781503612822
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
International Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Series Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: The Ideas of “International” Crime and Justice
  8. 1. On International Crime, Justice, and Community
  9. 2. “Rwanda”: The Production of a Global Event
  10. 3. International Crime as Spectacle: Scale, Subjectivity, Ethics
  11. 4. The Ideal of International Criminal Justice: Transcendence, Otherness, Myth
  12. Conclusion: Community Beyond Crime: Untethering International Crime, Justice, and Community
  13. Notes
  14. Works Cited
  15. Index
  16. Series List