Spectacles and Specters

A Performative Theory of Political Trials

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvBaşak Ertür

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WINNER, SLSA SOCIO-LEGAL THEORY AND HISTORY PRIZESHORTLISTED, THE HART-SLSA BOOK PRIZESpectacles 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 instead that making sense of the often incalculable interpenetrations of law, politics, and violence in trials requires shifting the focus away from law's instrumentality to its performativity.Ertür develops a theory of political trials by reconstructing and building on a legacy of critical thought on Nuremberg in close engagement with theories of performativity. She then offers original case studies that introduce a new perspective by looking beyond the Holocaust trials, to the Armenian genocide and its fragmentary legal aftermaths. These cases include the 1921 trial of Soghomon Tehlirian, the 2007-21 Hrant Dink Murder Trial, and the 2015 case before the European Court of Human Rights concerning the denial of the Armenian genocide. Enabling us to capture the various modalities in which the political emerges in, through and in relation to legal forms on the stage of the trial, this focus on law's performativity also allows us to account for how sovereign schemes can misfire and how trials can come to have unintended political lives and afterlives. Further, it reveals how law is entangled with and perpetuates certain histories of violence, rather than simply ever mastering these histories or providing closure.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-11-15
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagFordham University Press
ISBN9781531501860
UtmärkelserWinner of SLSA Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize 2024

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Preface ixIntroduction 1Performativity and Performance • Performativity and Errancy • Rethinking the Politics of Trials • Law and Violence: An Oblique AddressPART I: A PERFORMATIVE THEORY OF POLITICAL TRIALS1 Theorizing Political Trials 21Kirchheimer: Setting the Parameters • Judgment on Nuremberg •Arendt: A Trial of One's Own? • The Breach That Speaks the Bind •Shklar: "There's Politics and Politics" • Between Atrocity and Legal Violence2 The Form and Substance of Doing Justice: Law, Performativity, Performance 52Not a Profound Word • Law and Performativity • Masquerade and Fate •The Trial: Performativity and Performance3 Sovereign Infelicities 76Three Scenes • Sovereign Spectacles • Sovereign Performatives? •(Mis)Reading the Performative as Performance • Derrida's Austin: Sovereign Pretensions • Performing the (Structural) Unconscious • Undoing SovereigntyPART II: TRACING THE SPECTERS IN THE SPECTACLES4 Ghosts in the Courtroom: The Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian 103Talat • Tehlirian • Enter Ghost • The Telegrams • The Haunted Hunter •The Many Lives of Tehlirian • The Politics of Haunting5 Spectral Legacies: Legal Aftermaths of the Armenian Genocide 131Legal Returns • Atemporal Histories of Terror • Process unto Oblivion •"Genocide" as Counter-Memory6 Law of Denial: The Armenian Genocide before the European Court of Human Rights 156The Envoy • The Judge, The Historian, and the Politician • Judging the Presence of the PastConclusion 175Acknowledgments 187Notes 191Index 223