Basak Ertur

Spectacles and Specters

A Performative Theory of Political Trials

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Produktbeschreibung

WINNER, SLSA SOCIO-LEGAL THEORY AND HISTORY PRIZE SHORTLISTED, THE HART-SLSA BOOK PRIZE 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 Bäak 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781531501853
• ISBN-10: 1531501850
• Artikelnr.: 63433362

Autorenporträt

Bäak Ertu¿r

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix Introduction 1 Performativity and Performance
Performativity and Errancy
Rethinking the Politics of Trials
Law and Violence: An Oblique Address PART I: A PERFORMATIVE THEORY OF POLITICAL TRIALS 1 Theorizing Political Trials 21 Kirchheimer: 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 Violence 2 The Form and Substance of Doing Justice: Law, Performativity, Performance 52 Not a Profound Word
Law and Performativity
Masquerade and Fate
The Trial: Performativity and Performance 3 Sovereign Infelicities 76 Three Scenes
Sovereign Spectacles
Sovereign Performatives?
(Mis)Reading the Performative as Performance
Derrida's Austin: Sovereign Pretensions
Performing the (Structural) Unconscious
Undoing Sovereignty PART II: TRACING THE SPECTERS IN THE SPECTACLES 4 Ghosts in the Courtroom: The Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian 103 Talat
Tehlirian
Enter Ghost
The Telegrams
The Haunted Hunter
The Many Lives of Tehlirian
The Politics of Haunting 5 Spectral Legacies: Legal Aftermaths of the Armenian Genocide 131 Legal Returns
Atemporal Histories of Terror
Process unto Oblivion
"Genocide" as Counter-Memory 6 Law of Denial: The Armenian Genocide before the European Court of Human Rights 156 The Envoy
The Judge, The Historian, and the Politician
Judging the Presence of the Past Conclusion 175 Acknowledgments 187 Notes 191 Index 223