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Author Elander, Maria, author

Title Figuring victims in international criminal justice : the case of the Khmer Rouge tribunal / Maria Elander
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2018

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Contents The victim's address -- The establishment of a court -- The Khmer Eouge marriages and the victims of crime -- Becoming participant : victim representations at trial -- Photographs and outreach : relating victims to images -- Conclusion: moving forward through justice
Summary "Most 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 (the 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 engages with a range of debates and scholarship in law, feminist theory and cultural legal theory. Furthermore, by paying attention to a broader range of institutional practices, Figures of the Victim makes an innovative scholarly contribution to the debates on the roles and purposes of international criminal justice."--Provided by publisher
Notes Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School, 2015) issued under title: The figure of the victim in international criminal justice
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Supreme Court Chamber.
War crimes trials -- Cambodia
Genocide survivors -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cambodia
Victims of crimes (International law)
LAW / International.
LAW / Jurisprudence.
Victims of crimes (International law)
International criminal law
International law
Victims
Victims of crimes
World politics
Cambodia
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020691448
ISBN 9780429492051
0429492057
9780429959745
0429959745