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Invisible Atrocities Randle C. DeFalco (University of Hawaii, Manoa)

Invisible Atrocities By Randle C. DeFalco (University of Hawaii, Manoa)

Invisible Atrocities by Randle C. DeFalco (University of Hawaii, Manoa)


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This book explores the ways aesthetic considerations shape how international crimes are recognized and categorized. It identifies a dominant aesthetic model of atrocities as horrific spectacles and identifies various forms of mass violence, from the enforcement of famine conditions to socio-economic oppression, that fail to conform to this model.

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Invisible Atrocities: The Aesthetic Biases of International Criminal Justice by Randle C. DeFalco (University of Hawaii, Manoa)

International criminal justice is, at its core, an anti-atrocity project. Yet just what an 'atrocity' is remains undefined and undertheorized. This book examines how associations between atrocity commission and the production of horrific spectacles shape the processes through which international crimes are identified and conceptualized, leading to the foregrounding of certain forms of mass violence and the backgrounding or complete invisibilization of others. In doing so, it identifies various, seemingly banal ways through which international crimes may be committed and demonstrates how the criminality of such forms of violence and abuse tends to be obfuscated. This book suggests that the failure to address these 'invisible atrocities' represents a major flaw in the current international criminal justice system, one that produces a host of problematic repercussions and undermines the legal legitimacy of international criminal law itself.

About Randle C. DeFalco (University of Hawaii, Manoa)

Dr Randle C. DeFalco is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law. Dr DeFalco has received Fulbright, Vanier, and Banting fellowships, and won the University of Toronto Faculty of Law's 2017 Alan Marks Most Outstanding Thesis Medal.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Visible and invisible atrocity crimes; 2. The atrocity aesthetic: International crimes as horrific spectacles; 3. Maintaining invisibility: Aesthetic perception and the recognition of international crimes; 4. Unspectacular atrocities and international criminal law; 5. Visible and invisible international crimes: Cambodia and beyond introduction; 6. The costs of invisibility: An incomplete list introduction; 7. Aesthetic bias and legal legitimacy: An interactional assessment; 8. Conclusion: Addressing the many forms of atrocity crimes.

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NPB9781108487412
9781108487412
1108487416
Invisible Atrocities: The Aesthetic Biases of International Criminal Justice by Randle C. DeFalco (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2022-03-17
302
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