WAR CRIMES, ATROCITY AND JUSTICE

What do we know about war crimes and justice? What are thediscursive practices through which the dominant images of warcrimes, atroc ity and justice are understood?In this wide ranging text, Michael J. Shapiro contrasts thejusticerelated imagery of the war crimes trial (for example thesolitary, headphonewearing defendant at the Hague listening withintent to a catalogue of charges) with ?liter ary justice?:representations in literature, film, and biographical testimony,raising questions about atrocities and justice that jur idicalproce...[Leer más]