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Invisible Atrocities - Randle C. DeFalco

Invisible Atrocities

The Aesthetic Biases of International Criminal Justice
Buch | Hardcover
302 Seiten
2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-48741-2 (ISBN)
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This book explores the ways aesthetic considerations shape how international crimes are recognized and categorized. It identifies a dominant aesthetic model of atrocities as horrific spectacles and identifies various forms of mass violence, from the enforcement of famine conditions to socio-economic oppression, that fail to conform to this model.
International criminal justice is, at its core, an anti-atrocity project. Yet just what an 'atrocity' is remains undefined and undertheorized. This book examines how associations between atrocity commission and the production of horrific spectacles shape the processes through which international crimes are identified and conceptualized, leading to the foregrounding of certain forms of mass violence and the backgrounding or complete invisibilization of others. In doing so, it identifies various, seemingly banal ways through which international crimes may be committed and demonstrates how the criminality of such forms of violence and abuse tends to be obfuscated. This book suggests that the failure to address these 'invisible atrocities' represents a major flaw in the current international criminal justice system, one that produces a host of problematic repercussions and undermines the legal legitimacy of international criminal law itself.

Dr Randle C. DeFalco is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law. Dr DeFalco has received Fulbright, Vanier, and Banting fellowships, and won the University of Toronto Faculty of Law's 2017 Alan Marks Most Outstanding Thesis Medal.

1. Introduction: Visible and invisible atrocity crimes; 2. The atrocity aesthetic: International crimes as horrific spectacles; 3. Maintaining invisibility: Aesthetic perception and the recognition of international crimes; 4. Unspectacular atrocities and international criminal law; 5. Visible and invisible international crimes: Cambodia and beyond introduction; 6. The costs of invisibility: An incomplete list introduction; 7. Aesthetic bias and legal legitimacy: An interactional assessment; 8. Conclusion: Addressing the many forms of atrocity crimes.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 235 mm
Gewicht 596 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 1-108-48741-6 / 1108487416
ISBN-13 978-1-108-48741-2 / 9781108487412
Zustand Neuware
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