Archival Politics of International Courts

List of contents

1. The politics of archival knowledge in international courts; 2. The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda and its archive; 3: The force of law; 4. Contesting the archive; 5. Reconstituting justice; 6. Imagining community; 7. The residual mechanism and the archive.

About the author

Henry Redwood is Lecturer in International Relations at London South Bank University. He is co-editor of Reconciliation (2021), co-author of Impact and International Affairs (2021), and has published withs Review of International Studies (2019), Millennium (2020) and Critical Studies on Security (2021).

Summary

As the first analysis of the archives of international courts, examining how these archives produce particular understandings of what the 'international community' is, the book is essential reading for IR and ILAW scholars and archival scientists, as well as historians interested in the relationship between history, memory and law.

Additional text

'Redwood's book offers a thought-provoking and beautifully crafted way of looking at the politics of mass violence, the international legal system and record-keeping. With layered and nuanced insight, Redwood forges new academic ground, building a vision of the agential and material power of the archive and the procedural labours of international courts that construct meaning rather than simply reflect or react to the horrors of genocide. The book shows us how legal and archival practices constitute the ideas of community which shape our international system in unequal ways. This work is a brilliant and vital contribution to scholarship on the complex power of knowledge processes and the ideas they produce about violence.' Hannah Partis-Jennings, Lecturer in International Relations and Security, Loughborough University

Product details

• Authors: Henry Alexander Redwood, Henry Alexander (South Bank University Redwood
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781108844741
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84474-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Criminal Law / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Africa, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, HISTORY / Africa / East, International Relations, International Law, Rwanda, International Criminal Law, African History, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: criminal law, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, International Organisations & Institutions