Full Description
This book unlocks the look, sound, smell, taste, and feel of justice for massive human rights abuses. Twenty-nine expert authors examine the dynamics of the five human senses in how atrocity is perceived, remembered, and condemned. This book is chockful of images. It serves up remarkably diverse content. It treks around the globe: from Pacific war crimes trials in the aftermath of the Second World War to Holocaust proceedings in contemporary Germany, France, and Israel; from absurd show trials in Communist Czechoslovakia to international courtrooms in Arusha, Phnom Penh, and The Hague. Readers embark on a journey that transcends myriad dimensions, including photographic representations of grandfatherly old torturers in Argentina, narco-trafficking in Mexico, colonialisation in India, disinformation and misinformation pixelated in cyberspace, environmental degradation in Cambodia, militarism in Northern Ireland, and civil rights activism in Atlanta. Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions reimagines what an atrocity means, reconsiders what drives the manufacture of law, and reboots the role of courtrooms and other mechanisms in the pursuit of justice. It unveils how law translates sensory experience into its procedures and institutions, and how humanistic inputs shape perceptions of right and wrong. This book thereby offers a refreshing primer on the underappreciated role of aesthetics, time, and emotion in the world of law.
Drumbl and Fournet have done us all a great service in knitting together - in a single, powerfully imagined, volume - these essays about how we might experience the institutionalisation of judgment in atrocity trials.
- Gerry Simpson, Professor of Public International Law, LSE Law School (London).
Contributions to this volume offer a unique opportunity to delve into law's hidden landscape using the primary reality of the five senses.
- Marina Aksenova, Assistant Professor in Comparative and International Criminal Law, IE Law School (Madrid).
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Mark A. Drumbl and Caroline Fournet
Part 1
Shows and Cases: Showcasing(s) in the Courtroom
1 Optical Allusions, Indecency, and Injustice in the Trial of Japanese War Criminals
James Burnham Sedgwick
2 'The Show Must Go On': The Trials and Tribulations of Ludmila Brožová-Polednová
Barbora Holá
3 Atrocity Then, Trial Now: The Aesthetics, Acoustics, and Visualities of Prosecuting Oskar Gröning
Caroline Fournet and Mark A. Drumbl
4 Performing Justice: The Trial of Bruno Dey and Its Protagonists
Moritz Vormbaum and Jara Streuer
Part 2
Translating the Senses into Law and Judgment
5 Does Music Create Killers?: The Role of Music in the Commission of Violent Crimes
Agnieszka Jachec-Neale
6 The Stench of Death: The Olfactory of Genocide in International Criminal Trials
Carola Lingaas
7 The Sound and Taste of Atrocities: From Cambodia in the 1970s to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s
Audrey Fino
8 The Age-Impunity Rhetoric in Trials for Crimes Committed during the Argentine Genocide (1975-1983)
Adriana Taboada and Lior Zylberman
Part 3
Filtering the Sensory: Language, Evidence, Culture, and Procedure
9 Sounds of Atrocity Prosecutions: Intersubjective Interpreting as a Key Ingredient for Effective and Fair Trials in Multilingual and Multicultural War Crimes Courtrooms
Dragana Spencer
10 The Mind's Eye: The Invisibility of Culture in Individual Criminal Responsibility
Vera Piovesan
11 Versions of the Truth: Disinformation and Prosecuting Atrocities
Emma J. Breeze
12 Putting Things in Play: The Spectacle of Criminal Justice
Sebastián Machado
Part 4
Staging, Re-enactment, Film
13 A Trial without a Defendant: The Mock Trial of Dr. Josef Mengele in Jerusalem
Yehudit Dori-Deston
14 Reconstructing the Crime: Memory, Re-enactments, and Space in Atrocity Investigations
Maria Elander
15 Staging Atrocity Prosecutions: Re-enactments and Pre-enactments of Atrocity Trials in Theatre
Hanna Luise Kroll and Kerstin Wilhelms
16 Entertaining Selectivity: 'Narcos', Netflix, and International Crimes
Javier S. Eskauriatza
Part 5
Sensibility Divides: North-South, Imperial-Colonized, State-Society
17 Hearing Voices: Victim and Witness Demographics at the International Criminal Court
Annika Jones
18 Ugly Atrocities, Cathartic Prosecutions: International Criminal Law as Emotional Salve
Randle C. DeFalco
19 Appropriating Sovereignty through Trials: British Imperial Expansion and Staging of Oppression through Law
Aman Kumar
20 'Protecting the Environment Is Not Illegal': Ecological Activism, the Visualities of Law and Justice, and the Land Concession Crisis in Cambodia
Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier
Part 6
Reflections on Aesthetics and Methods
21 Veteran Mobilisation, Prosecutions, and the Contested Legacy of the Past in Northern Ireland: Deconstructing the 'Witch-Hunt' Narrative
Kevin Hearty and Kieran McEvoy
22 Negative Aesthetic Experiences of Prosecuting the Barely Alive
Shannon Fyfe
23 Elaborating on the 'Asymmetry' of Prosecuting Aged Defendants for Atrocities: A 'Multimodal-Visual Argumentation' Perspective
Konstantinos P. Tsinas
24 Atrocity Prosecutions, Cultural Representation, and the Invisible Older Individual
Kirsten J. Fisher
25 The Sights, Sounds, and Silences of International Law During the Cold War
Mark A. Drumbl
Index
