Imagining the Inteational:Crime, Justice, and the Promise of Community

Imagining the Inteational:Crime, Justice, and the Promise of Community (The Cultural Lives of Law)

Imagining the Inteational:Crime, Justice, and the Promise of Community (The Cultural Lives of Law)

Author: by Nesam McMillan (Author)

Publisher:‏‎ Stanford University Press

Edition:‏‎ 1st edition

Publication Date:‏‎ 2020-09-8

Language: ‎ English

Hardcover: ‎ 224 pages

ISBN-10: ‎ 150360201X

ISBN-13: ‎ 9781503602014

Product details

Inteational crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an inteational community seized by the need to act. Through an analysis of archival and contemporary data, Imagining the Inteational provides a detailed picture of how ideas of inteational crime (crimes against all of humanity) and global justice are given content, foregrounding their ethical limits and potentials. Nesam McMillan argues that dominant approaches to these ideas problematically disconnect them from the lived and the specific and foster distance between those who have experienced inteational crime and those who have not. McMillan draws on interdisciplinary work spanning law, criminology, humanitarianism, socio-legal studies, cultural studies, and human geography to show how understandings of inteational crime and justice hierarchize, spectacularize, and appropriate the suffering of others and promote an ideal of justice fundamentally disconnected from life as it is lived. McMillan critiques the mode of global interconnection they offer, one which bears resemblance to past colonial global approaches and which seeks to foster community through the image of crime and the practice of punitive justice. This book powerfully underscores the importance of the ideas of inteational crime and justice and their significant limits, cautioning against their continued valorization.

Review

“The concepts of inteational crime and inteational justice, and the global documents, laws and institutions that aim to put these ideas into practice, are typically promoted as a moral good, a sign of humanity’s progress towards a global community. Imagining the Inteational lucidly and convincingly shows why these ‘captivating’ and ‘beautiful’ ideas are an ambivalent gift. Through a series of compelling case studies, Nesam McMillan explores the unanticipated effects of inteational crime and justice―the hierarchies of universal versus local, the legacies of colonialism and the sacrifice of local conces to an inteational agenda. Questioning the idea of grounding inteational solidarity in criminal justice, she urges us to think in more complex and demanding ways about the nature of global interconnection and how it can be fostered in ways that genuinely benefit local communities. This is a timely and provocative book which provides both a map and a critique―it will be valued by scholars and students alike.”―Rosanne Kennedy, Australian National University
“This insightful book is a much-needed corrective antidote to the nostrums of inteationalism. Nesam McMillan unwraps how violence that crosses the gaze of inteational law becomes appreciated but also appropriated and othered at the same time. This book is a compelling call for inclusiveness and a powerful exhortation for globality to transcend post-coloniality.”―Mark A. Drumbl, Washington and Lee University
Imagining the Inteational is an innovative, compelling and much-needed intervention. Forcing us to rethink our assumptions, McMillan questions how certain crimes are established as globally important and others not, and explores the ethical, cultural, and political implications of creating hierarchies of suffering delinked from human experience.”―Eve Darian-Smith, University of Califoia, Irvine
“Instead of the idealized discourse about exceptional crimes as a spectacle that objectifies the victims, the global justice project needs to be newly conceptualized from the positions of equality and solidarity. McMillan’s book is an important step in this direction.”―Katarina Ristic,
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About the Author

Nesam McMillan is a Senior Lecturer in Global Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melboue, Australia.

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