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Towards an anthropology of emotion, affect, and law Towards an anthropology of emotion, affect, and law
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Historical context of conflict in Uganda Historical context of conflict in Uganda
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Biopolitics through legal encapsulation: The case of Dominic Ongwen Biopolitics through legal encapsulation: The case of Dominic Ongwen
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Conclusion: Towards a legal anthropology of emotion and affect Conclusion: Towards a legal anthropology of emotion and affect
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48 Emotion, Affect, and Law
Get accessKamari Maxine Clarke is Distinguished Professor of Transnational Justice and Socio-legal Studies at the University of Toronto. Trained in anthropology and law, she has spent her career exploring theoretical questions of culture and power, detailing the relationship between new transnational formations and contemporary problems. Her acclaimed book Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism (Cambridge University Press, 2009) analyses how human rights conceptions are negotiated in global legal plural contexts, especially regarding international criminal law. Her most recent book, Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback (Duke University Press, 2019), is concerned with challenges over the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court in Africa.
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Published:08 September 2021
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Abstract
This chapter introduces perspectives within an emerging anthropology of emotion, affect, and the law, which traces how embodied emotional responses are mobilized socially and politically to reinforce the moral legitimacy of particular legalistic and technocratic solutions to the problem of violence in Africa. Taking the particular case of Dominic Ongwen, a convicted commander of the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army who was brought before the International Criminal Court for a range of crimes against humanity, we see the beginning of a trend to demonstrate methodologically an interrelationship between micro processes and macro and historical processes. This happens through a study of the emotive and affective processes that go into the making of individual ‘perpetrators’. But we also see that part of that process involves the necessary connection to the longue durée that makes such racial depictions immediately believable. Through an examination of both the psychosocial and complex historical and political conditions that underscore inter-generational trauma in postcolonial contexts, we see how the intersection of emotion, affects, and law has played out in the study of law and anthropology.
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