Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions.

• Superior document: Studies in International Criminal Law Series ; v.06
• Author: Drumbl, Mark A.
• TeilnehmendeR: Fournet, Caroline.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in International Criminal Law Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (558 pages)

This book explores how international criminal justice interacts with the human senses - sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch - when it comes to perceiving mass atrocity and thereafter holding perpetrators accountable.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Genealogy: Coming of Age to Here and Now -- 2 Looking Intensely at Simulation, Translation, and Projection -- 3 A Note on Aesthetics -- 4 This Book: Structure, Threads, and Themes -- 4.1 Part 1 Shows and Cases: Showcasing(s) in the Courtroom -- 4.2 Part 2 Translating the Senses into Law and Judgment -- 4.3 Part 3 Filtering the Sensory: Language, Evidence, Culture, and Procedure -- 4.4 Part 4 Staging, Re-enactment, Film -- 4.5 Part 5 Sensibility Divides: North-South, Imperial-Colonized, State-Society -- 4.6 Part 6 Reflections on Aesthetics and Methods -- 5 Closing While Opening -- Part 1 Shows and Cases: Showcasing(s) in the Courtroom -- Chapter 1 Optical Allusions, Indecency, and Injustice in the Trial of Japanese War Criminals -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Once Were Warriors? Here Be Dragons? -- 3 Aesthetical Disorder, Allegorical Dissonance -- 4 Over Promise, Under Deliver -- 5 Conclusion: Time, a Wasting -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 2 'The Show Must Go On': : The Trials and Tribulations of Ludmila Brožová-Polednová -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Rise and Fall of Communists in Czechoslovakia -- 3 Ludmila Brožová-Polednová: Actress, Prosecutor and Criminal -- 4 Ludmila's 'Role' of a Lifetime -- 5 Ludmila's 'Finale' -- 6 Conclusion: Show Trials Then and Now -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 3 Atrocity Then, Trial Now: : The Aesthetics, Acoustics, and Visualities of Prosecuting Oskar Gröning -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Prosecuting 'the Small Cog in the Gears' -- 2.1 Gröning: The 'Bookkeeper' of Auschwitz -- 2.2 Gröning after Demjanjuk -- 2.3 Gröning on Trial -- 3 The Visualities and Vocalities of Gröning's Trial -- 4 A Tale of Three Accusers, and Their Differences.

5 Concluding by Counterfactual: The Aesthetics of Silence amid Bee-Keeping and Book-Keeping -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 4 Performing Justice: The Trial of Bruno Dey and Its Protagonists -- 1 Introduction and Methodology -- 2 Background -- 3 The Director -- 4 Villain or Victim? -- 5 The Heroes -- 6 Hidden Protagonists -- 7 The Extras -- 8 Conclusion -- 9 Epilogue -- Part 2 Translating the Senses into Law and Judgment -- Chapter 5 Does Music Create Killers?: The Role of Music in the Commission of Violent Crimes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Marching Drums -- 2.1 Music as a Stimulator of Courage and Perseverance -- 2.2 Musical Sadism -- 3 A 'One-Man-Army' -- 3.1 Breivik's Musical Influences: 'The Best and Most Talented Patriotic Musician' -- 3.2 In Preparation to 'Fight' -- 3.2.1 Building Confidence and Suppression of Fear -- 3.2.2 Conditioning Body and Mind -- 4 Music on Trial at the ICTR -- 4.1 The 'Offending' Songs -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Stench of Death: The Olfactory of Genocide in International Criminal Trials -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Smell as a Lower Sense -- 3 Olfactory Testimonies of Genocide -- 4 The Stench of Decomposition: Memories of Rotting Bodies -- 5 A Lingering and Persisting Stench -- 6 Power and Killing at Roadblocks -- 7 Hiding from the Génocidaires -- 8 Killings at Hospitals -- 9 Fear of Contamination and Epidemics -- 10 Stench as a Legal Element -- 10.1 A Tug of War between Visual and Olfactory Impressions -- 10.2 Ignoring Stench as Incitement to Genocide? -- 11 Killings in Churches -- 12 '[I]‌t Was a Study of Horror' -- 12.1 Smoking Cigars in UNAMIR Helicopters -- 12.2 A Constant Flow of Bodies -- 13 Few and Far between: Prosecutorial References to Stench -- 14 Smelling Dirty: Stench Unrelated to Death -- 15 Implications of Stench on Reconciliation -- 16 Conclusion.

Chapter 7 The Sound and Taste of Atrocities: From Cambodia in the 1970s to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Adducing Witness Testimony -- 3 Setting the Cases in their Historical Context -- 4 The Significance of the Sound and Taste of Atrocities -- 4.1 Proving Murder, Extermination, and Genocide: Revolutionary Music and the Sound of Silence -- 4.2 Proving Persecution: Eating of Pork and Nationalistic Songs -- 4.3 Proving Terrorisation and Forcible Transfer: The Screams of a Slaughtered Pig -- 4.4 Proving Individual Criminal Responsibility -- 5 Sensory Interference: Memory and Time, Language and Interpretation -- 5.1 Memory and Time: Assessing Credibility and Weighing Testimony -- 5.2 Language and Interpretation -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 8 The Age-Impunity Rhetoric in Trials for Crimes Committed during the Argentine Genocide (1975-1983) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Rhetoric of Age-Impunity from the Unseen -- 3 Rhetoric Age-Impunity from the Seen: The Formula of Martyrdom -- 4 Rhetoric Age-Impunity from the Unseen -- 5 Conclusion -- Part 3 Filtering the Sensory: Language, Evidence, Culture, and Procedure -- Chapter 9 Sounds of Atrocity Prosecutions: Intersubjective Interpreting as a Key Ingredient for Effective and Fair Trials in Multilingual and Multicultural War Crimes Courtrooms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Identifying Sources of Poor Intersubjectivity in Multilinguistic and Multicultural Trials -- 3 Thinking Differently in Different Languages: Biases Affecting the Quality of Intersubjectivity -- 4 Different Interpretation Standards Produce Different Sounds of Atrocity Prosecutions -- 5 Language Rights, Intersubjectivity and Effective Fair Trial Guarantees -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 10 The Mind's Eye: The Invisibility of Culture in Individual Criminal Responsibility -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Culture in International Criminal Trials.

3 The Constitutive Role of Culture in Individual Culpability -- 4 Using Culture to (De)Construct the Defendant -- 5 Conclusions -- Chapter 11 Versions of the Truth: Disinformation and Prosecuting Atrocities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Digital Evidence and Manipulation -- 3 Sights: Can We Believe Our Eyes? -- 4 Authenticity, Voices and Visuals -- 5 In the Minds of Judges -- 6 Sounds of Evidence -- 7 Humanity and the Machine -- 8 Conclusion -- Chapter 12 Putting Things in Play: The Spectacle of Criminal Justice -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Artistic International Law -- 2.1 The Turn to Aesthetics -- 2.2 Trials as Theatre -- 3 Representation at Trial -- 4 Putting Things in Play -- 5 Conclusion -- Part 4 Staging, Re-enactment, Film -- Chapter 13 A Trial without a Defendant: The Mock Trial of Dr. Josef Mengele in Jerusalem -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The State of Israel vs. Josef Mengele: A Public Hearing or a Quasi-criminal Proceeding? -- 3 'A Reminder Shall Come out of Jerusalem' -- 4 'I Swore to My Mother That One Day, I Would Take Revenge on Dr. Mengele' -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 14 Reconstructing the Crime: : Memory, Re-enactments, and Space in Atrocity Investigations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Reconstructions in Law -- 3 Materiality: Walking through the Site -- 4 Testimony in Words and Body -- 5 Creating Evidence for the Future -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 15 Staging Atrocity Prosecutions: Re-enactments and Pre-enactments of Atrocity Trials in Theatre -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Peter Weiss: Die Ermittlung. Oratorium in 11 Gesängen (1965) -- 3 Milo Rau: The Congo Tribunal (2015) -- 4 Rainald Goetz: Reich des Todes (2020) -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 16 Entertaining Selectivity: 'Narcos', Netflix, and International Crimes -- 1 Introduction: Entertaining Selectivity and Entertaining Images.

2 Theoretical Footholds: Translating between Culture, Crime, and Law -- 2.1 The Translation of Ideas across Epistemological Boundaries -- 2.2 Cultural Criminology -- 3 Reflections of Selectivity in Narco-entertainment -- 3.1 What Is the 'War on Drugs'? What Is a 'Drug War'? -- 3.2 'Child-Soldiers' and 'Cartels' -- 3.3 'Armed Attack' by 'Organized Groups' -- 4 Conclusion: Narco-culture, Entertainment, Politics and Criminal Justice -- Acknowledgements -- Part 5 Sensibility Divides: North-South, Imperial-Colonized, State-Society -- Chapter 17 Hearing Voices: Victim and Witness Demographics at the International Criminal Court -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Demographics and the Evolving Role of Victims and Witnesses in the ICC's Proceedings -- 2.1 Witnesses -- 2.2 Victims -- 3 The Significance of Victim and Witness Demographics for the Goals of International Criminal Justice -- 3.1 Fact-Finding and History-Telling -- 3.2 Expressivism -- 3.3 Restorative Justice -- 4 Whose Voices Are Heard? -- 5 Reconciling Publication of Data with Victim and Witness Protection -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 18 Ugly Atrocities, Cathartic Prosecutions: International Criminal Law as Emotional Salve -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Horrific Atrocities -- 3 Cathartic Prosecutions -- 4 Concluding Thoughts -- Chapter 19 Appropriating Sovereignty through Trials: British Imperial Expansion and Staging of Oppression through Law -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Zafar, 'a Beast in a Cage': The Person -- 2.1 Zafar's Role in the Revolt -- 2.2 Zafar's Arrest -- 3 Red Fort: The Place -- 4 'A Solemn Farce': The Trial -- 5 Afterwards and Afterwords: Zafar in 'Our' Memory -- 6 Trial of Tikendrajit Singh: Contrast and Continuity -- 7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 20 'Protecting the Environment Is Not Illegal': Ecological Activism, the Visualities of Law and Justice, and the Land Concession Crisis in Cambodia.

1 Introduction.