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War Crimes, Atrocity, and Justice (Paperback)
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War Crimes, Atrocity, and Justice (Paperback)
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What do we know about war crimes and justice? What are the
discursive practices through which the dominant images of war
crimes, atrocity and justice are understood? In this wide ranging
text, Michael J. Shapiro contrasts the justice-related imagery of
the war crimes trial (for example the solitary, headphone-wearing
defendant at the Hague listening with intent to a catalogue of
charges) with ?literary justice?: representations in literature,
film, and biographical testimony, raising questions about
atrocities and justice that juridical proceedings exclude. By
engaging with the ambiguities exposed by the artistic and
experiential genres, reading them alongside policy and archival
documentation and critical theoretical discourses, Shapiro?s War
Crimes, Atrocity, and Justice challenges traditional notions of
?responsibility? in juridical settings. His comparative readings
instead encourage a focus on the conditions of possibility for war
crimes as they arise from the actions of states, non-state agencies
and individuals involved in arms trading, peace keeping, sex
trafficking, and law enforcement and adjudication. Theory springs
to life as Shapiro draws on examples from legal discourse,
literature, media, film, and television, to build a nuanced picture
of politics and the problem of justice. It will be of great
interest to students of film and media, literature, cultural
studies, contemporary philosophy and political science
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