Jonas Bens

Dialogical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the International Criminal Court Trial of Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi

Sigurd D’hondt, Baudouin Dupret, Jonas Bens

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Islamic Normativity and International Criminal Law: The Colonial Politics of Recognition in Prosecutor v Al Mahdi at the International Criminal Court

Sigurd D’hondt, Baudouin Dupret, Jonas Bens

Abstract Prosecutor v Al Mahdi (Al Mahdi) has repeatedly been criticized as a “missed opportunity” for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to engage with Islamic law. However, an in-depth analysis of trial transcripts reveals that the ICC is already deeply engaged with …

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Islamic Normativity and International Criminal Law: The Colonial Politics of Recognition in Prosecutor v Al Mahdi at the International Criminal Court

Sigurd D'hondt, Baudouin Dupret, Jonas Bens

Prosecutor v Al Mahdi (Al Mahdi) has repeatedly been criticized as a “missed opportunity” for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to engage with Islamic law. However, an in-depth analysis of trial transcripts reveals that the ICC is already deeply engaged with Islamic …

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Dialogical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the International Criminal Court Trial of Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi

Sigurd D'hondt, Baudouin Dupret, Jonas Bens

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Moving beyond and towards Liberal Legalism: Legal Anthropology and the Liberal Rule of Law

Jonas Bens, Larissa Vetters

Liberal legalism is under attack from authoritarian movements worldwide. Legal anthropology must respond by studying both: alternative legal orders and how liberal law itself is being transformed and weaponised.

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Editorial

Jonas Bens

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Atmospheres

Jonas Bens, Michael Schnegg

Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually and collectively. They are created by the affective relationships between the human and non-human, material and immaterial bodies that comprise a situation. Yet an atmosphere is at the same time …

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Property as Affect

Jonas Bens

Capitalist property as epistemic violence

Jonas Bens

Ethnographic museums around the world are embroiled in controversies about how to deal with the coloniality of their collections. The frame of contestation is most often property: Who should "own" ethnographic objects? Should they remain the property of Western museums, or should …

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Revisiting forum shopping: navigating normative pluralism, navigating sentiments

Jonas Bens

People live their lives and experience the conflicts in which they are involved in the context of competing normative orders. But how do people navigate this normative pluralism? To understand this, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann’s model of ‘forum shopping’ and ‘shopping forums’, derived …

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The Affects of Transitional Justice

Jonas Bens

Abstract Transitional justice projects are deeply embedded in Western understandings of law. As such, they are influenced by a specific idea in European modernity: that affects, emotions, feelings, and sentiments should be avoided in order to achieve justice. Certain strands of transitional …

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Unhappy Objects

Paola Ivanov, Laibor Kalanga Moko, Jonas Bens

Taking point from Sarah Ahmed’s conception of “happy objects”, this chapter interprets ethnographic objects from colonial contexts in European museums as “unhappy objects.” As such, they both create unhappiness for different publics and are unhappy themselves. Focusing on ethnographic objects from Maasai …