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Figuring Victims in International Criminal Justice: The Case of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

Figuring Victims in International Criminal Justice: The Case of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

Author: Maria Elander
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138242302
Published In: June 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Most discourses on victims in international criminal justice take the subject of victims for granted, as an identity and category existing exogenously to the judicial process. This book takes a different approach.

Through a close reading of the institutional practices of one particular court, it demonstrates how court practices produce the subjectivity of the victim, a subjectivity that is profoundly of law and endogenous to the enterprise of international criminal justice. Furthermore, by situating these figurations within the larger aspirations of the court, the book shows how victims have come to constitute and represent the link between international criminal law and the enterprise of transitional justice.

The book takes as its primary example the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), or the Khmer Rouge Tribunal as it is also called. Focusing on the representation of victims in crimes against humanity, victim participation and photographic images, the book engages with a range of debates and scholarship in law, feminist theory and cultural legal theory. Furthermore, by paying attention to a broader range of institutional practices, Figuring Victims makes an innovative scholarly contribution to the debates on the roles and purposes of international criminal justice.

Preface

Acknowledgments

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Introduction: The Victim’s Address

Chapter One: The Establishment of a Court

Chapter Two: The Khmer Rouge Marriages and the Victims of Crime

Chapter Three: Becoming Participant: Victim Representations at Trial

Chapter Four: Photographs and Outreach: Relating Victims to Images

Conclusion: Moving Forward Through Justice

Bibliography

Index