JurisTalk | Affective Justice and the Limits of Law’s Temporality

• In-person event
• D492, Loeb Building, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

with Prof. Kamari Clarke (Global and International Studies, Carleton University)

This talk explores what the construction of the perpetrator figure means in international criminal law circles and how we might understand it through the re-signification of “culpability”. Prof. Clarke examines the way that the attribution of culpability is directly tied to the re-attribution of law’s temporality. For what we see is that these re-attributive actions are not simply reflections of the increasing belief in judicial trials as the new norm for addressing mass violence a scholars such as Kathryn Sikkinnk (2011) may have it.  Rather, the figure of the International Criminal Court’s perpetrators as “African” and “male” has inspired highly sentimentalized counter-ICC social movements. By examining new modalities for measuring justice expressed through re-attributions of criminal responsibility, the talk raises questions about the limits of the law and the spaces within which new publics are articulating senses of justice.

This event takes place during FPA Research Month.