Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
19 Jun Events and Announcements: June 19, 2016
...a call for papers for its upcoming panel on “Emotional Warfare and its Limits: Towards an Affective Turn in International Humanitarian Law”, organized in the context of the International Conference on “Historicising International (Humanitarian) Law? Could we? Should we?” on 6–8 October 2016. When and why did the law of armed conflict become “humanitarian”? What role do fear, envy, or friendship play in the regulation of war? Can law offer an effective way out of the irrationality of violence? Possible answers to these questions cannot be addressed by means of...
05 Apr Of Palestinian Liars and Israeli Saints: Confronting Anti-Palestinian Racism in International Law
probing testimonial injustice as it plays out amongst Palestinians and Israelis, we will confront uncomfortable truths. My aim with this confrontation is two-fold: first, to explain the relationship between testimonial (in)justice and legal discourse and, second, to spark reflection on how anti-Palestinian racism is exacerbating epistemic injustice in international law. Of Credibility Deficits and Credibility Excesses Credibility is funny business. In our everyday interactions, the credibility we afford to a speaker rests not just on the content of their speech: we also make surface-level judgements based upon subjective attributions. Does...31 Mar Bad Criminal Law in the Alexander Blackman Case (With Addendum)
...types found in any of the affective disorders (except for delusions and hallucinations), any disorder in F4 (neurotic, stress related and somatoform disorders) and conduct disorders, so long as the criteria of an individual disorder are not fulfilled. Symptoms may be variable in both form and severity.” 33. The symptoms include depressed mood, anxiety, worry, a feeling of an inability to cope, plan ahead or continue in the present situation, with some degree of disability in performance of the daily routine. The symptoms vary considerably; some suffer very mild symptoms;...04 Feb Iranian Nuclear Sabres Rattle
Iran’s decision to resume uraniam enrichment is precisely what it threatened before the IAEA Board meeting last week. In a letter dated February 2, 2006, Iran firmly requested that the case not be submitted to the Security Council. It included the threat that “I am afraid to warn that if the interlocutors of Iran want to put pressure on the [IAEA] Board to report the issue to the UN Security Council and this pressure be affective, and the [Security] Council would be involved in any way with the Iranian peaceful...09 Jun The Post “#Theorizing While Black”
We have removed the post to avoid duplication. To see Wumi Asubiaro-Dada’s response to Richard Wilson’s post about Affective Justice, please see Medium here....
05 Apr Everybody Knows About Racism, Goddam! Pathways in the Struggle Against the Racialised Universe of International Law
...of the psycho-affective pull that grips racialised scholars. We want to ‘identify and delineate different racial and racist ideologies’ and their relationship to our investments in law. We wish to see and ‘even quantify…progress and regression’ in legal discourse. She decodes our desire: we are motivated to remedy the ‘vertiginous cycle of racial injustice’ that law constitutes. Perhaps it is from this point that our ennui emanates: our commitment to change and our identity as scholars are assaulted daily by the never-ending character of the struggle for a racially just...
23 Sep Symposium on Protest and Legal Mobilization: Of Being With and Against the Law – Stories from Shaheen Bagh, 2019-2020
...imagination’ and a ‘source of citizenship consciousness’, the Constitution became one of the most powerful symbols of the Shaheen Bagh protest. The protestors embraced the Constitution with an unprecedented affective intensity as they engaged in mass readings of its Preamble, held up its copies in sit-ins and rallies and displayed posters with the text of the Preamble emblazoned on them. The creative reconfiguration and profusion of legal symbols and the sincerity with which they were invoked conveyed the protestors’ faith in their power to shield them, even when they did...05 Jul Sustaining the Naturalization Myth
...as citizens, often highlighting their capacity as citizens to vote. The reports are obviously significant beyond what they predictably report. In her elegant book Democracy and the Foreigner (which ties together sources as disparate as The Wizard of Oz and Shane to the Book of Ruth and Rousseau), political scientist Bonnie Honig describes how naturalization rites actualize our conception of the American nation. “With a hope and a prayer and an oath,” the ceremonies “testify to the fundamental consentworthiness of the regime by symbolically representing the consent that is effectively...01 Jun The Continuing Predator Drone Campaign in Pakistan
...in the tens rather than the thousands. It is right about the humanitarian calculation of targeted killing – but it would be profoundly mistaken to assume that the soft-law community of international law sees it that way. On the contrary, to judge by the conversations I have with considerable frequency, I’d say at the affective level, targeted killing is seen not as potentially more humanitarian because more discriminating – what the human rights community, back in the day, fifteen or twenty years ago, demanded of NATO militaries – but instead...