NARRATIVES OF JUSTICE IN AND OUT OF THE COURTROOM by Dubravka Zarkov (Editor), Marlies Glasius (Editor) ( 9783319380360 )

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Title:

NARRATIVES OF JUSTICE IN AND OUT OF THE COURTROOM
FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AND BEYOND

By:

Dubravka Zarkov (Editor), Marlies Glasius (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

3319380362

ISBN 13:

9783319380360

Publisher:

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG

Pub. date:

3 September, 2016

Edition:

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014

Series:

Springer Series in Transitional Justice 8

Pages:

188

Synopsis:

This volume considers the dynamic relations between the contemporary practices of international criminal tribunals and the ways in which competing histories, politics and discourses are re-imagined and re-constructed in the former Yugoslavia and beyond. There are two innovative aspects of the book - one is the focus on narratives of justice and their production, another is in its comparative perspective. While legal scholars have tended to analyze transitional justice and the international war tribunals in terms of their success or failure in establishing the facts of war crimes, this volume goes beyond mere facts and investigates how the courts create a symbolic space within which competing narratives of crimes, perpetrators and victims are produced, circulated and contested. It analyzes how international criminal law and the courts gather, and in turn produce, knowledge about societies in war, their histories and identities, and their relations to the wider world.Moreover, the volume situates narratives of transitional justice in former Yugoslavia both within specific national spaces - such as Serbia, and Bosnia - and beyond the Yugoslav. In this way it also considers experiences from other countries and other times (post-World War II) to offer a sounding board for re-thinking the meanings of transitional justice and institutions within former Yugoslavia. Included in the volume's coverage is a look at the Rwandan tribunals, the trials of Charles Taylor, Radovan Karadzic, the Srebrenica genocide, and other war crimes and criminals in the Yugoslav. Finally, it frames all of those narratives and experiences within the global dynamics of legal, social and geo-political transformations, making it an excellent resource for social science researchers, human rights activists, those interested in the former Yugoslavia and international relations, and legal scholars.

Illustrations:

6 Illustrations, color; XVII, 188 p. 6 illus. in color.

Publication:

Switzerland

Imprint:

Springer International Publishing AG

Returns:

Returnable

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