The Edge of Law - Legal Geographies of a War Crimes Court

Informationen zum Autor Alex Jeffrey is a Reader in Human Geography at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College. Following work for a youth NGO in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alex Jeffrey's scholarly work has examined the politics of state formation after violent conflict. He is author of over forty papers and chapters on the political and legal geographies of the state and published The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia (2013). He sits on the Editorial Board of Political Geography and the RGS-IBG Book Series. Klappentext Explores the political and social consequences of establishing a new legal system in the wake of violent conflict. Zusammenfassung This book explores the fraught process of establishing trials for war crimes following violent conflict! such as in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. This process can be seen as inherently spatial: creating new concepts of inclusion and exclusion and new understandings of the appropriate division of territory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The edge of law; Part I. Producing the Edge of Law: 2. Making a court; 3. Court materiality; Part II. Politics at the Edge of Law: 4. Public outreach; 5. Law and citizenship; Part III. Contesting the Edge of Law: 6. Rules of law; 7. Entrance strategies; 8. Conclusion.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alex Jeffrey, Alex (University of Cambridge) Jeffrey, Jeffrey Alex
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781107199842
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19984-2
• Dimensioni: 158 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Eastern Europe, Russia, European History, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sociology: customs & traditions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Human Geography, Regional Government Policies, Regional, state and other local government policies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet