Reynolds, John and Xavier, Sujith
(2016)
The Dark Corners of the World.
Journal of International Criminal Justice, 14.
pp. 959-983.
ISSN 1478-1387
Abstract
Despite international criminal law’s historically contingent doctrines and embedded
biases,ThirdWorld self-determination movements continue to be enticed by international
criminal justice as a potentially emancipatory project. This article seeks to
peer inside the structural anatomy of the international criminal law enterprise
from a vantage point oriented to the global South. It reflects broadly on discourses
of international criminal law and its exponents as they relate to the global South,
and explores one particularly contentious issue in the politics of international criminal
law ç that of operational selectivity. Redressing such selectivities as they
arise from geopolitical biases is an important first step for any reconstruction of
the field of international criminal justice. The article emphasizes, however, the need
to also look beyond the problems of unequal enforcement, to reconceptualize the
forms of violence criminalized at the design level.We ask whether, given certain colonial
features, the premise and promise of international criminal justice can ç for
self-determination struggles or anti-imperial movements in the global South ç be
anything more than illusory. Drawing on the perspectives of Third World
Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), the article concludes with some thoughts
on what ‘TWAILing’ the field of international criminal justice might entail.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Dark Corners of the World; Dark Corners; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Law |
| Item ID: |
11737 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqw053 |
| Depositing User: |
John Reynolds
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| Date Deposited: |
18 Nov 2019 13:56 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Journal of International Criminal Justice |
| Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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