1/7 I am very excited to share that my book, ‘The Figure of the Witness in International Criminal Tribunals: Memory, Atrocities and Transitional Justice’ is officially published today with @routledge as part of the #TransitionalJustice book series.
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2/7 The book explores how international criminal institutions, and their actors – legal counsels, judges, investigators, registrars – construct #witness identity and #memory, taking the #ICTR as a case study.
3/7 It constructs an original conceptual framework of witness memories, & conducts a discourse analysis of ICTR archive material relating to the underexplored ‘pre-trial’ stage to argue that witnessing must be understood as a contingent and multi-layered discursive process.
4/7 It focuses on how memory production in international criminal tribunals and courts needs to be understood within the legal scholarship on TJ not as a ‘product’ or ‘thing’.
5/7 Specify agency is vital as it prioritises answering the central questions on the legal construction of memory, that being: who remembers, when, why and how?
6/7 The book also explores a potential way legal witnesses could contribute to the plurality of memory in post-conflict societies, & proposes that fragments of witness memories in the ICTR archive have the potential to contribute to the post-genocide memory ecology in Rwanda
7/7 I would be really interested hear peoples thoughts on the book.
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