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Dialogic theaters of justice Dialogic theaters of justice
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Black Earth Rising: an ethical vision of the world Black Earth Rising: an ethical vision of the world
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Animations Animations
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Family/border dramas Family/border dramas
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Conclusion/abjection Conclusion/abjection
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7 Legal precarities: burying/burrowing for truth and justice
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Published:June 2024
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Abstract
By charting the tension between reasons of state and justice, as well as the way the global justice dispositif involves a wide variety of protagonists, some of whose practices seem to be heterogeneous to the international justice regime, this chapter examines the valuation practices, overlapping cartographies, regimes of calculability, secrecy, and colonial specters that emerge as one investigates the subplots and shadow worlds behind the prosecution of crimes against humanity. Through a reading of Mathias Énard’s novel Zone, where the author stages a drama about justice that effectively engages grammatical and theatrical framing of how to approach the “idea” (in this case) of justice, the chapter maps truth-seeking and truth-concealing practices that move and traverse the “earth.” Our analysis then turns to the protagonists and challenging relations of intimacy exposed in Hugo Blick’s Black Earth Rising (2018), a Netflix series in which the main protagonist, the legal investigator and Rwanda genocide survivor Kate Ashby (Michaela Coel), runs into a world of secrecy, colonial specters, talionic laws (an eye for an eye), and manhunting. These encounters interrupt her sense of self, truth, family, justice, and even her “idea of Africa,” thus leading her on a quest that involves burrowing for justice in ways that involve unburying memories, the dead, and a spectral past.
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