Critical Stasis and Disruptive Performances: ICJ and the Anwar, R. trial in Koblenz
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Critical Stasis and Disruptive Performances : ICJ and the Anwar, R. trial in Koblenz. / Koleva, Petya Mitkova; Vigh, Henrik Erdman.
I: Theoretical Criminology, Bind 25, Nr. 3, 2021, s. 437-453.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Critical Stasis and Disruptive Performances
T2 - ICJ and the Anwar, R. trial in Koblenz
AU - Koleva, Petya Mitkova
AU - Vigh, Henrik Erdman
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This article explores the extraterritorial criminal court case against Anwar R, a high-ranking member of the Syrian regime on trial for crimes against humanity in Koblenz, Germany. Empirically anchored in ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Koblenz and with the Commission for International Justice and Accountability, the article illuminates the trial as a ‘disruptive performance’. The case against Anwar R punctuates two instances of negative stasis and unsettles two accounts of chronicity, namely, those of the Syrian conflict and of the field of international criminal justice. In order to illuminate the trial as a disruptive performance, the article empirically situates the Koblenz case both in relation to the Syrian war that it relates to, to the international criminal justice apparatus that it is a part of and to the underlying compilation of evidence that substantiates it. It thus clarifies both the symbolic potential and the constitutive process that has brought it into being.
AB - This article explores the extraterritorial criminal court case against Anwar R, a high-ranking member of the Syrian regime on trial for crimes against humanity in Koblenz, Germany. Empirically anchored in ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Koblenz and with the Commission for International Justice and Accountability, the article illuminates the trial as a ‘disruptive performance’. The case against Anwar R punctuates two instances of negative stasis and unsettles two accounts of chronicity, namely, those of the Syrian conflict and of the field of international criminal justice. In order to illuminate the trial as a disruptive performance, the article empirically situates the Koblenz case both in relation to the Syrian war that it relates to, to the international criminal justice apparatus that it is a part of and to the underlying compilation of evidence that substantiates it. It thus clarifies both the symbolic potential and the constitutive process that has brought it into being.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - crisis
KW - ethnography
KW - international criminal justice
KW - performance
KW - stasis
U2 - 10.1177/13624806211008573
DO - 10.1177/13624806211008573
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 437
EP - 453
JO - Theoretical Criminology
JF - Theoretical Criminology
SN - 1362-4806
IS - 3
ER -
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