Mirrors of justice : law and power in the post-Cold War era / / edited by Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mark Goodale.
"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 thro...
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 344 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Beyond compliance : toward an anthropological understanding of international justice / Sally Engle Merry
- Postcolonial denial : why the European court of human rights finds it so difficult to acknowledge racism / Marie-Benedicte Dembour
- Proleptic justice : the threat of investigation as a deterrent to human rights abuses in Cote d'Ivoire / Mike McGovern
- Global governmentality : the case of transnational adoption / Signe Howell
- Implementing the International Criminal Court treaty in Africa : the role of nongovernmental organizations and government agencies in constitutional reform / Benson Chinedu Olugbuo
- Measuring justice : internal conflict over the World Bank's empirical approach to human rights / Galit A. Sarfaty
- The victim deserving of global justice : power, caution, and recovering individuals / Susan F. Hirsch
- Recognition, reciprocity, and justice : melanesian reflections on the rights of relationships / Joel Robbins
- Irreconcilable differences? Shari'ah, human rights, and family code reform in contemporary Morocco / Amy Elizabeth Young
- The production of "forgiveness" : God, justice, and state failure in post-war Sierra Leone / Rosalind Shaw
- Impunity and paranoia : writing histories in Indonesian violence / Elizabeth F. Drexler
- National security, weapons of mass destruction, and the selective pursuit of justice at the Tokyo war crimes trial, 1946-1948 / Jeanne Guillemin
- Justice and the League of Nations minority regime / Jane K. Cowan
- Commissioning truth, constructing silences : the Peruvian Truth Commission 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.