Spectacle in international criminal law: the fundraising image of victimhood

Schwöbel-Patel, Christine

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“…Christine Schwöbel-Patel, for instance, emphasizes how the ICC has constructed the stereotype of the 'ideal victim', characterized by weakness, vulnerability, dependency and grotesqueness, to appeal to the Western donor community in the 'global attention economy'. 164 In a similar vein, Sofia Stolk and Wouter Werner demonstrate how audio-visual materials produce particular types of victimhood in international criminal law, 'varying from "ideal" victims in advocacy documentaries, argumentative victims in critical documentaries, translated victims in observatory documentaries, to bureaucratized victims in audio-visual materials produced by the ICC itself'. 165 Instead of empowering (potential) victims, they are exploited to profit the institutional reputation.…”

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Creating loyalty: Communication practices in the European and Inter-American human rights regimes

Steininger

2022

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This article investigates how the European and Inter-American human rights regimes have developed communication practices to create loyalty. It argues that communication departments exercise essential functions, in particular by creating diffuse support for international courts. By relying on theoretical analyses developed by Albert O. Hirschman and David Easton, it identifies how international courts can create loyalty through, first, fostering awareness about the existence of the court among the general public, and, second, the establishment of supportive communities around the court through shared practices. By drawing on semi-structured interviews, the comparative analysis of the European and Inter-American human rights regime illustrates both the professionalization of communication actors and the evolution of specific communication strategies in times of backlash. The empirical insights derived from semi-structured interviews with communication officials highlight how they have succeeded in expanding their audiences, but struggle with activating communities of practice. Ultimately, the rise of visual media formats and story-telling narratives might be the most promising tool to portray a more positive and engaging image of the institution.

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Creating loyalty: Communication practices in the European and Inter-American human rights regimes

Steininger

2022

Glob. Con.

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“…It is beyond the scope of this article to critique the ICC in terms of its representativeness or efficacy further, as many, many other scholars such as Krever (2014) and Schwobel-Patel (2016) have already addressed this in much greater detail. This article instead is assessing the ICC trial as a ritual-like performative practice.…”

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The trial’s the thing: Performance and legitimacy in international criminal trials

Leader

2018

Theoretical Criminology

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This article explores the relationship between performance and legitimacy in international criminal trials through the lens of the International Criminal Court (ICC). I begin by analysing the deployment of theatrical tropes by different legal scholars, such as Hannah Arendt, and David Luban, arguing that such analogies serve as a policing mechanism for the author to distinguish what they perceive to be the ‘good’ or ‘bad’ theatre of the trial. I then move beyond analogy, drawing on legal sociology and performance theory to read the criminal trial as ritual-like, normative performance. Using the ICC as a case study, I will examine how performance is deployed to create, reinforce and naturalize the role of the ICC in international criminal law. Through focusing on issues of performance and community I offer a different way of looking at what may constitute legitimacy in international criminal law from that which is offered by other legal scholars.

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“…Visual images also do something of their own, a doing which has varyingly been described as seduction, 28 the punctum, 29 or an affective quality. 30 Much work has been dedicated to defusing the power of images, such as by drawing attention to the ways in which images may spectacularize victimhood 31 and by questioning the extent to which photography can help us understand. 32 Yet, precisely because of their power, visual images, whether in the form of reparations or evidence, require being taken seriously-not as extrajudicial, or as completing, or as threatening law, but as part of the legal field.…”

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Visualizing Law and Justice at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

Elander

2020

AJIL Unbound

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The body is falling backwards, facing the sky. The hands are clasped together in a sampeah, as if in greeting, as if in prayer. For the artist of the Cambodian Tragedy Memorial, also called A ceux qui ne sont plus là (For those who are no longer here), the body “speak[s] both to and beyond individual identity.” By standing both as personal testimony of loss and “in memory of the Cambodian genocide and its impossible representation,” the memorial raises longstanding questions on the authority and limits of testimony, on representation, and, importantly for this symposium, on the relation between art and international criminal law.

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Spectacle in international criminal law: the fundraising image of victimhood

Cited by 40 publications

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Creating loyalty: Communication practices in the European and Inter-American human rights regimes

Creating loyalty: Communication practices in the European and Inter-American human rights regimes

The trial’s the thing: Performance and legitimacy in international criminal trials

Visualizing Law and Justice at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

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