Description
Book SynopsisMost discourses on victims in international criminal justice take the subject of victims for granted, as an identity and category existing exogenously to the judicial process. This book takes a different approach. Through a close reading of the institutional practices of one particular court, it demonstrates how court practices produce the subjectivity of the victim, a subjectivity that is profoundly of law and endogenous to the enterprise of international criminal justice. Furthermore, by situating these figurations within the larger aspirations of the court, the book shows how victims have come to constitute and represent the link between international criminal law and the enterprise of transitional justice. The book takes as its primary example the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), or the Khmer Rouge Tribunal as it is also called. Focusing on the representation of victims in crimes against humanity, victim participation and photographic images, the book eng
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
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- Preface
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- Acknowledgments
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- Abbreviations
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- Introduction: The Victim’s Address
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- Chapter One: The Establishment of a Court
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- Chapter Two: The Khmer Rouge Marriages and the Victims of Crime
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- Chapter Three: Becoming Participant: Victim Representations at Trial
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- Chapter Four: Photographs and Outreach: Relating Victims to Images
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- Conclusion: Moving Forward Through Justice
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- Bibliography
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- Index
