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    The Dark Corners of the World


    Reynolds, John and Xavier, Sujith (2016) The Dark Corners of the World. Journal of International Criminal Justice, 14. pp. 959-983. ISSN 1478-1387

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    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
    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
    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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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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