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Book SynopsisGenocide Never Sleeps provides an ethnographic account of the messy, human process of international criminal justice at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. It is for readers interested in international criminal justice, human rights, the anthropology of law and contemporary African politics.
Trade Review'Overall, in full reverence to the old anthropological adage of making the familiar strange, Eltringham does a superb job of turning the site of international tribunals into an unfamiliar new terrain with fascinating insights to debate for anthropologists and legal scholars alike.' Senem Kaptan, Allegra Laboratory
Table of ContentsIntroduction: judging the crime of crimes; 1. 'When we walk out; what was it all about?'; 2. 'Watching the fish in the goldfish bowl'; 3. 'Who the hell cares how things are done in the old country'; 4. 'They don't say what they mean or mean what they say'; 5. 'We are not a truth commission'; Conclusion.
