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This book explores the ways aesthetic considerations shape how international crimes are recognized and categorized. It identifies a dominant aesthetic model of atrocities as horrific spectacles and identifies various forms of mass violence, from the enforcement of famine conditions to socio-economic oppression, that fail to conform to this model.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Visible and invisible atrocity crimes; 2. The atrocity aesthetic: International crimes as horrific spectacles; 3. Maintaining invisibility: Aesthetic perception and the recognition of international crimes; 4. Unspectacular atrocities and international criminal law; 5. Visible and invisible international crimes: Cambodia and beyond introduction; 6. The costs of invisibility: An incomplete list introduction; 7. Aesthetic bias and legal legitimacy: An interactional assessment; 8. Conclusion: Addressing the many forms of atrocity crimes.
About the author
Dr Randle C. DeFalco is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law. Dr DeFalco has received Fulbright, Vanier, and Banting fellowships, and won the University of Toronto Faculty of Law's 2017 Alan Marks Most Outstanding Thesis Medal.
Summary
This book explores the ways aesthetic considerations shape how international crimes are recognized and categorized. It identifies a dominant aesthetic model of atrocities as horrific spectacles and identifies various forms of mass violence, from the enforcement of famine conditions to socio-economic oppression, that fail to conform to this model.
