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020			_a9780367862640 (paperback) _a9781138242302 (hardcover)
040			_cChanthan
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082			_a362.88
100			_aElander, Maria,
245			_aFiguring victims in international criminal justice : _bhe case of the Khmer Rouge tribunal / _cMaria Elander
260			_aLondon : _bRoutledge , _c2018
300			_aix, 195 pages ; _c25 cm
520			_aMost discourses on victims in international criminal justice take the subject of victims for granted, as an identity and category existing exogenously to the judicial process. This book takes a different approach. Through a close reading of the institutional practices of one particular court, it demonstrates how court practices produce the subjectivity of the victim, a subjectivity that is profoundly of law and endogenous to the enterprise of international criminal justice. Furthermore, by situating these figurations within the larger aspirations of the court, the book shows how victims have come to constitute and represent the link between international criminal law and the enterprise of transitional justice. The book takes as its primary example the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), or the Khmer Rouge Tribunal as it is also called. Focusing on the representation of victims in crimes against humanity, victim participation and photographic images, the book engages with a range of debates and scholarship in law, feminist theory and cultural legal theory. Furthermore, by paying attention to a broader range of institutional practices, Figuring Victims makes an innovative scholarly contribution to the debates on the roles and purposes of international criminal justice.
650		0	_aExtraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
650		0	_aGenocide survivors _vLegal status, laws, etc. _zCambodia
650		0	_aWar crime trials _zCambodia
650		0	_aVictims of crimes (International law)
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