Spectacles and Specters : : A Performative Theory of Political Trials / / Başak Ertür.
Spectacles and Specters draws on theories of performativity to conceptualize the entanglements of law and political violence, offering a radical departure from accounts that consider political trials as instrumental in exercising or containing political violence. Legal scholar Başak Ertür argues in...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART I A Performative Theory of Political Trials
- 1 Theorizing Political Trials
- 2 The Form and Substance of Doing Justice: Law, Performativity, Performance
- 3 Sovereign Infelicities
- PART II Tracing the Specters in the Spectacles
- 4 Ghosts in the Courtroom: The Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian
- 5 Spectral Legacies: Legal Aftermaths of the Armenian Genocide
- Law of Denial: The Armenian Genocide before the European Court of Human Rights
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index