Jonas Bens

The Sentimental Court

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Produktbeschreibung

What is the role of affect in international criminal law and transitional justice in (post-)colonial Africa and beyond? Instead of accepting at face value the commonly held assumption that the law systematically neutralizes emotions, Jonas Bens argues that the law purposefully creates, mobilizes, shapes, and transforms atmospheres and sentiments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781316512876
• ISBN-10: 1316512878
• Artikelnr.: 63118038

Autorenporträt

Jonas Bens is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin. His work focuses on law, statehood, and colonialism in capitalist modernity. His books include The Indigenous Paradox: Rights, Sovereignty and Culture in the Americas (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Affect, emotion and the law; Part I. Atmospheres: 1.
Courtroom atmospheres: The courtroom of the ICC as an affective
arrangement; 2. Transitional justice atmospheres: The ICC's outreach work
in northern Uganda; Part II. Sentiments: 3. The sentiment of plausibility:
Affective framing and the production of legal truth; 4. The sentiment of
objectivity: Arranging objects and subjects in the ICC courtroom; 5. The
sentiment of justice: Navigating normative pluralism in northern Uganda;
Part III. Politics: 6. The politics of atmosphere and sentiment:
International criminal justice in Africa and competing indignation regimes;
7. We have never been rational: The emotions of liberal legalism and the
affective politics of modernity; Epilogue: Affect and colonialism;
Bibliography; Index.