The Humanity of Universal Crime - Graf, Sinja
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"Crimes against humanity" has become integral to contemporary political and legal discourse. However, the conceptual core of the term--an act offending all of mankind--has a longer and deeper history in international political thought. In an original excavation of this history, The Humanity of Universal Crime examines theoretical mobilizations of the idea of universal crime in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The book offers a novel view of how claims to act in the name of humanity are deeply steeped in practices that reproduce structures of inequality at a global level, particularly across political empires.…mehr

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"Crimes against humanity" has become integral to contemporary political and legal discourse. However, the conceptual core of the term--an act offending all of mankind--has a longer and deeper history in international political thought. In an original excavation of this history, The Humanity of Universal Crime examines theoretical mobilizations of the idea of universal crime in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The book offers a novel view of how claims to act in the name of humanity are deeply steeped in practices that reproduce structures of inequality at a global level, particularly across political empires.
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Autorenporträt
Sinja Graf is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. Her work examines the relationship between international norms and political violence at the intersection of political theory, history of political thought, and international law. Her research has been published in disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals.