Mirrors of Justice

Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The book brings together a group of both prominent and emerging scholars to reconsider the relationships between justice, international law, culture, power, and history through case studies of a wide range of justice processes. The book’s eighteen authors examine the ambiguities of justice in Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Melanesia through critical empirical and historical chapters. The introduction makes an important contribution to our understanding of the multiplicity of justice in the twenty-first century by providing an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that synthesizes the book’s chapters with leading-edge literatures on human rights, legal pluralism, and international law.

Spis treści:
Introduction. Understanding the multiplicity of justice Mark Goodale and Kamari Maxine Clarke
1. Beyond compliance, toward an anthropological understanding of international justice Sally Engle Merry
Part I. Justice and the Geographies of International Law
2. Postcolonial denial, why the European Court of Human Rights finds it so difficult to acknowledge racism Marie-Bénédicte Dembour
3. Proleptic justice, the threat of investigation as a deterrent to human rights abuses in Côte dIvoire Michael McGovern
4. Global governmentality, the case of transnational adoption Signe Howell
5. Implementing the International Criminal Court Treaty in Africa, the role of NGOs and government agencies in constitutional reform Benson Chinedu Olugbuo
6. Measuring justice, internal conflict over the World Banks empirical approach to human rights Galit A. Sarfaty
Part II. Justice, Power, and Narratives of Everyday Life
7. The victim deserving of global justice, power, caution, and recovering individuals Susan F. Hirsch
8. Recognition, reciprocity, and justice, Melanesian reflections on the rights of relationships Joel Robbins
9. Irreconcilable differences? Shariah, human rights, and family code reform in contemporary Morocco Amy Elizabeth Young
10. The production of forgiveness, God, justice, and state failure in postwar Sierra Leone Rosalind Shaw
Part III. Justice, Memory, and the Politics of History
11. Impunity and paranoia, writing histories of Indonesian violence Elizabeth Drexler
12. National security, WMD, and the selective pursuit of justice at the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, 1946–1948 Jeanne Guillemin
13. Justice and the League of Nations minority regime Jane K. Cowan
14. Commissioning truth, constructing silences, the Peruvian TRC and the other truths of terrorists Lisa J. Laplante and Kimberly Theidon
Epilogue. The words we use, justice, human rights, and the sense of injustice Laura Nader.