Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback

Clarke, Kamari Maxine

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“…Although these activist groups were divided mainly along the lines of human rights activism and political activism, they both shared a disdain for those kinds of activists who treated the people they worked with as suffering victims. Such an approach of humanitarian activism, they rather identified with colonial attitudes (see, generally, Branch 2007;Clarke 2009Clarke , 2019.…”

Section: Transitional Justice Activism In Northern Ugandamentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward a comparative anthropology of activism: activist identity formations in Germany and Uganda

Podgornik-Jakil

Bens

2021

Dialect Anthropol

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There is an ongoing debate in anthropology on the kinds of subject positions activists ascribe to the marginalized actors they encounter and the political consequences this brings about. Drawing from ethnographic research on refugee activism in Germany and transitional justice activism in Uganda, we revisit the respective debates on humanitarian activism, human rights activism, and political activism and argue to reframe the analysis. Instead of looking for the “right” subject position activists should ascribe to the people they engage with, the anthropology of activism should embrace a research approach that looks at the material conditions, in which activists and their subjects find themselves in and the kind of agency they are able to develop within these conditions.

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Section: Transitional Justice Activism In Northern Ugandamentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward a comparative anthropology of activism: activist identity formations in Germany and Uganda

Podgornik-Jakil

Bens

2021

Dialect Anthropol

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“…This anecdote is a cogent reminder that statecraft is itself a fabrication that marshals nostalgic nationalisms to bolster commonplace understandings, following Alexander, of which bodies can truly be citizens. As Kamari Clarke (2019, 174) details in her ethnography of the International Criminal Court (ICC), juridical definitions of citizen and noncitizen (or in the case of the ICC, victims and perpetrators) are themselves sutured to “liberal legalist frameworks [that] emerge through particular ways of organizing subjects and then erasing the processes by which such formations take shape.” The state fix is always a practice of forgetting by which subjectively fashioned legal and juridical arrangements are represented as objective arbiters of who or what constitutes a real marriage, real citizen, or real justice 16…”

Section: Against the State Fix: An Incoherent Anthropologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2019

Jobson

2020

American Anthropologist

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This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate change and authoritarian governance both as objects of scholarly inquiry and as existential threats to the reproduction of the discipline. Taking the 2018 American Anthropological Association meeting in San Jose as a point of departure, this essay posits the California wildfires as an immanent challenge to anthropological practice. Pace Mike Davis, the case for letting anthropology burn entails a call to abandon its liberal suppositions. As a discourse of moral perfectibility founded in histories of settler colonialism and chattel slavery, liberal humanism and its anthropological register of ethnographic sentimentalism proved insufficient to confront the existential threats of climate catastrophe and authoritarian retrenchment in 2019. The case for letting anthropology burn is fortified by efforts to unsettle the conceptual and methodological preoccupations of the discipline in service of political projects of repatriation, repair, and abolition. By abandoning the universal liberal subject as a stable foil for a renewed project of cultural critique, the field of anthropology cannot presume a coherent human subject as its point of departure but must adopt a radical humanism as its political horizon. [sociocultural anthropology, settler colonialism, afterlives of slavery, climate change, the human]

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“…It also brings out affectively laden relations to one another and to the state, to the municipal government, and to NGOs, producing new modes of citizenship and belonging, and new horizons for collective action (Aretxaga 2003; Feldman 2018; Muir and Gupta 2018, S10). It is the multiple affective dimensions (Clarke 2019; Shoshan 2016) of work‐life experiences and governance—the pathways, struggles, complaints, hopefulness, and hopelessness—where we see generation in action.…”

Section: Technology Corruption and Generationmentioning

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The Anti/Corruption Continuum: Generation, Politics and Grassroots Anti‐Corruption Mobilization in Guatemala 

Burrell

Kotni

Calmo³

2020

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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This article takes anticorruption activism as a starting point for analyzing how young activists unequally experience the inequalities produced by corruption, as well as the bureaucratic and financial weight of anticorruption and audit culture. Against the backdrop of Guatemala's now‐defunct pioneering anticorruption commission, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), we utilize the concept of the anti/corruption continuum to analyze the contradictory positions of young people fighting against and depending on corruption for their economic survival. Gender, age, and class dynamics and young people's economic precarity make clientelism difficult to avoid and often curtail participation in movements for change. While most discussions of the CICIG's work focus on the national level, this is a unique view on how national‐level politics reverberated locally in a Mayan community.

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Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback

Cited by 23 publications

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Toward a comparative anthropology of activism: activist identity formations in Germany and Uganda

Toward a comparative anthropology of activism: activist identity formations in Germany and Uganda

The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2019

The Anti/Corruption Continuum: Generation, Politics and Grassroots Anti‐Corruption Mobilization in Guatemala

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