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Drawing on critical theory, criminological analysis, and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork,
Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court illuminates how the ICC's victim engagement functions to reproduce the Court as a relevant institution and to transform victims in the Global South into productive capitalist subjects.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: What Is Justice and Does It Matter? The Rome Statute and Its Disciples
- 3: Creating the Victim: From Innocent Victims to Indebted Subjects
- 4: Translators, Compradors, or Ideological Labourers? The Role of the ICC's Intermediaries
- 5: Reparations, Abolitionist Imaginaries, and Self-transforming Victims: Transformative Justice at the ICC
- 6: Money and Land: Resistance in Times of Capitalist Complementarity
- 7: Conclusion
About the author
Leila Ullrich is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford. She works at the crossroads of international criminal justice, transitional justice, victimology, and border criminology. She is particularly interested in how global criminal justice institutions create gendered and racialized subjects, and how these subjects (victims, refugees, and racialized communities) engage with and resist these processes. She approaches these questions using feminist, decolonial, and critical political economy theories while also developing new bottom-up research methods such as qualitative WhatsApp surveying. Leila was previously a Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary University and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford.
Summary
Drawing on critical theory, criminological analysis, and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court illuminates how the ICC's victim engagement functions to reproduce the Court as a relevant institution and to transform victims in the Global South into productive capitalist subjects.
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Leila Ullrich's The Blame Cascade is a brilliant addition to the burgeoning literature on the role of victims within the International Criminal Court. Drawing on Marxist theory and engaging with gender- and race-based critiques of international criminal law, Ullrich shows - through rich empirical and theoretical investigation - how the ICC tries to turn Global South atrocity victims into subservient capitalist subjects. This book is essential reading for scholars and practitioners wanting to understand the often problematic 'invisible labour' of international criminal justice.
