1st Edition

Law, Memory, Violence Uncovering the Counter-Archive

Edited By Stewart Motha, Honni van Rijswijk Copyright 2016
254 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The demand for recognition, responsibility, and reparations is regularly invoked in the wake of colonialism, genocide, and mass violence: there can be no victims without recognition, no perpetrators without responsibility, and no justice without reparations. Or so it seems from law’s limited repertoire for assembling the archive after ‘the disaster’. Archival and memorial practices are central to... Read more

1. Introduction: Developing a Counter-archival Sense, Stewart Motha and Honni van Rijswijk  2. A Counter-Archival Sensibility: Picking up Hannah Arendt’s ‘Reflections on Little Rock’, Jennifer Culbert  3. Listening to the Archive / Failing to Hear, Jill Stauffer  4. (Un)remembering: Countering Law’s Archive. Improvisation as Social Practice, Sara Ramshaw and Paul Stapleton  5. Animating the Archive: Artefacts of Law, Trish Luker  6. The File as Hypertext: Documents, Files and the Many Worlds of the Paper State, Mayur Suresh  7. Counter-archive as staging dissensus, Karin van Marle  8. Constitutions Are Not Enough: Museums as Law’s Counter Archive, Stacy Douglas  9. Archiving Victimhood: Practices of Inscription in International Criminal Law,  Sara Kendall  10. The Conspiracy Archive: Turkey’s ‘Deep State’ on Trial,  Başak Ertür  11. Making a Treaty Archive: Indigenous Rights on the Canadian Development Frontier, Miranda Johnson  12. Schmitt’s Weisheit der Zelle: Rethinking The Concept of the Political, Jacques de Ville

Biography

Stewart Motha, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Honni van Rijswijk, School of Law, University of Technology Sydney,

Australia.