Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court

The Blame Cascade

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Leila Ullrich, University of Oxford) Ullrich, Prof Leila (Associate Professor of Criminology, Associate Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Law

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Victim participation at the ICC has routinely been viewed as an empty promise of justice or mere spectacle for audiences in the Global North, providing little benefit for victims. Why, then, do people in Kenya and Uganda engage in justice processes that offer so little, so late? How and why do they become the court's victims and intermediaries, and what impact do these labels have on them?Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court offers a response to these poignant questions, demonstrating that the notion of 'justice for victims' is not merely symbolic, expressive, or instrumental. On the contrary — the book argues — the ICC's methods of victim engagement are productive, reproducing the Court as a relevant institution and transforming victims in the Global South into highly gendered and racialized labouring subjects. Challenging the Court's interplay with global capitalist relationships, the book makes visible the hidden labour of justice, and how it lures, disciplines, and blames both victims and victims' advocates.Drawing on critical theory, criminological analysis, and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in The Hague, Kenya, and Uganda, Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court illuminates how the drive to include victims as participants in international criminal justice proceedings also creates and disciplines them as blameworthy capitalist subjects. Yet, as victim workers learn to 'stop crying', 'be peaceful', 'get married', 'work hard', and 'repay debt', they also begin to challenge the terms of global justice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-06-20
Mått145 x 223 x 26 mm
Vikt602 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieClarendon Studies in Criminology
Antal sidor384
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198870258

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Leila Ullrich is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford. She works at the crossroads of international criminal justice, transitional justice, victimology, and border criminology. She is particularly interested in how global criminal justice institutions create gendered and racialized subjects, and how these subjects (victims, refugees, and racialized communities) engage with and resist these processes. She approaches these questions using feminist, decolonial, and critical political economy theories while also developing new bottom-up research methods such as qualitative WhatsApp surveying. Leila was previously a Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary University and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford.

1: Introduction2: What Is Justice and Does It Matter? The Rome Statute and Its Disciples3: Creating the Victim: From Innocent Victims to Indebted Subjects4: Translators, Compradors, or Ideological Labourers? The Role of the ICC's Intermediaries5: Reparations, Abolitionist Imaginaries, and Self-transforming Victims: Transformative Justice at the ICC6: Money and Land: Resistance in Times of Capitalist Complementarity7: Conclusion

This extraordinary study of the International Criminal Court illuminates how the minutia of the court's institutional processes interpolate and refract the injustices of the dominant world order. This is socio-legal analysis at its best — elegantly combining ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda, Kenya and the Hague with macro-analysis of the racial-capitalist world order that produced and shapes the court. A gifted theorist and storyteller, the book offers a compelling, stinging critique of the international criminal justice machinery while attentive to how 'victims', resist, decenter and sometimes smash the machines that seek to conscript them into further victimization. Brilliant, original and intellectually rigorous from start to finish, Ullrich's book is destined to shape the field it studies.