Kamari M Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 415572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kamari M Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kamari M |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4910-548X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Male Victims of Sexual Violence and Factors Associated With Reporting to Law Enforcement in the United States
Of the violent crimes, sexual assault remains the least likely to be reported to law enforcement across various countries, particularly for male victims. Addressing this gap in the literature, this study uses National Crime Victimization Survey data from 1992 to 2020 to examine the relationship between victim, offender, and situational characteristics to the reporting of rape for male victims by both male and female offenders. Of the 330 male vic…
New frontiers in international human rights
This article explores the emergence of various international justice narratives that operate as legal nonperformatives, making the law and law making seem liberatory. It shows that the ratification of a treaty may not qualify as a form of state expression or a speech act advocating human rights. Instead, it can be interpreted through semiotics as sending a signal about a stance. By examining this proleptic space, we can begin to make sense of wha…
Black Bones Matter
The Banality of Bones I n 1985, teenage sisters Delisha and Tree Africa lived in West Philadelphia, in a communal housing settlement founded by a revolutionary organisation known as MOVE.Originally called the "Christian Movement for Life" and renamed MOVE in the early 1970s, the group combined philosophies of Black nationalism and a lifestyle of raw foods, urban farming and opposition to modern science and capitalism.Founded by Vincent Leaphart (…
Rendering the absent visible
Contemporary justice-making processes often focus on reconciliation or legal retribution, but not on the complexity of victimhood beyond individual subjectivity or refusals of state propositions for social repair. In Colombia, where drug cartels and state-sponsored violence had terrorized the population for over fifty years, it was not forgiveness and acceptance that punctuated the turn of the twenty-first century, but the refusal to reconcile wi…
Toward Reflexivity in the Anthropology of Expertise and Law
The African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights in Context
The treaty creating the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights, if and when it comes into force, contains innovative elements that have potentially significant implications for current substantive and procedural approaches to regional and international dispute settlements. Bringing together leading authorities in international criminal law, human rights and transitional justice, this volume provides the first comprehensive analysi…
‘The beauty…is that it speaks for itself’
This essay takes up the incorporation of geospatial materials into international criminal law and its institutional locations, focusing on the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC). We consider how geospatial materials such as satellite imagery are conscripted as legal materials for international criminal trials, and how these relatively novel forms of evidence require interventions of technical knowledge through expert witness testimony…
Affective Justice
This article contributes to contemporary debates in the anthropology of international justice by exploring how narratives about the International Criminal Court have been applied, understood, and contested. It traces the way that justice is materialized and made legible as a domain of practice that is predicated on deeply embedded racialized logics, which are themselves obscured in the process. The article focuses on how bodies, psychologies, and…
Rethinking Sovereignty through Hashtag Publics
Beyond Genealogies
This article considers the way genealogical approaches to religion have not been able to take into account how the production of knowledge, including religious knowledge, affects global politics. Specifically, it is concerned with the production of expert testimony, which is used to provide the evidentiary basis for a new industry of civil and human rights claims and protections. I explore how genealogical approaches to religion offer a way to se…
Africa and the ICC
Africa and the ICC: Realities and Perceptions comprises contributions from prominent scholars of different disciplines including international law, political science, cultural anthropology, African history and media studies. This unique collection provides the reader with detailed insights into the interaction between the African Union and the International Criminal Court (ICC), but also looks further at the impact of the ICC at a societal level …
International Justice and the Politics of Sentimentality
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The Urgency of New Historiographies in International Relations
This essay explores Siba Grovogui's publication of Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy: Memories of International Order and Institutions as a way to ponder how histories of international relations are told. Clarke considers Grovogui's central point concerning the relationship between Western intellectual anxieties and postcolonial methods and modes of thought. One domain for interrogating the contemporary significance of the work is the call for new …
Refiguring the perpetrator
This article is about the ways that the notion of the African perpetrator and notions of ‘culpability' are mediated through a distinct colonial–postcolonial continuum. These different assessments for assigning and comprehending guilt result in what I term an ‘ICC impunity gap’. Epitomising this gap is the case against Kenya's William Ruto and the recently dropped case against Uhuru Kenyatta, whose indictments by the International Criminal Court (…
Notes on Cultural Citizenship in the Black Atlantic World
Assemblages of Experts
This essay explores the ways that new judicial formations centered on the Caribbean Court of Justice provide a space for understanding the workings of various legal rights brokers as central to a project of Caribbean regionalism. It examines the intermediary spaces in which legal brokers—predominantly nationals of countries in the region—are reconstructing legal regimes through which new spaces of Caribbean regional unity are taking shape. The de…
Religion, Society, Theory
This introductory essay to a special issue of Religion and Society: Advances in Research outlines the shifting conceptual landscape of the study of religion. It argues that the field is undergoing a significant transformation, moving beyond the limitations of earlier paradigms. The authors suggest that new approaches are needed to address the complex and multifaceted ways in which religion intersects with other social domains, such as politics, e…
New Spheres of Transnational Formations
The subject of this article is the reinscription of a new diaspora in the public sphere by which governments and multilateral institutions are mobilizing. The following argues that these kinds of mobilizations have had the effect of subverting traditional approaches to diasporic linkage that in African and African American studies have privileged trans-Atlantic slavery and its consequent social dislocations and led to the marginalization of other…
Response by Author
The Politics of Faith and the Limits of Scientific Reason
This article explores the reality of translating or vernacularizing practices in relation to the politics of religion and the realities of faith. Taking violence as endemic to the processes of vernacularization and translation, the article articulates an analytic theory of religious faith-the way it is violated, often in the interest of making it legible within neo-liberal universalizing trends. Thinking about these realities involves understandi…
Rethinking Africa through its Exclusions
The African focus on the International Criminal Court (ICC) rule of law movement is far from incidental. It has everything to do with the identification of particular crimes as of gravest concern to humanity, crimes which, when viewed in political terms, foster cooperation by the majority of state parties. This article explores the workings of a global elite of liberalist lawyers and policy makers engaged in establishing what particular types of …
Toward a Critically Engaged Ethnographic Practice
This article interogates what it means for anthropologists as "social critics" to be engaged in documenting efforts that not only have explanatory power but connect that power to praxis. The key here is to recognize how delimiting innocence and guilt in the context of war is clearly a political act that is not without problems. It involves identifying our public spheres and determining what has happened to those publics within which we speak. I s…
Fictions of Justice
By taking up the challenge of documenting how human rights values are embedded in rule of law movements to produce a new language of international justice that competes with a range of other formations, this book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and grassroots contestations of those practices. These micropractices include speech acts that revere the protection of international rights, citation referen…
Transnational Yoruba revivalism and the diasporic politics of heritage
This article explores the making of social membership in U.S.-based deterritorialized contexts and interrogate the ways that black-Atlantic diasporic imaginaries are intertwined to produce transnational notions of linkage. In charting a genealogy of a transnational orisa movement that came of age in a moment of black-nationalist protest, I pose questions about how such a study should be understood in relation to ethnographies of global networks. …
Globalization and Race
Toward a Critically Engaged Ethnographic Practice
This article interogates what it means for anthropologists as "social critics" to be engaged in documenting efforts that not only have explanatory power but connect that power to praxis. The key here is to recognize how delimiting innocence and guilt in the context of war is clearly a political act that is not without problems. It involves identifying our public spheres and determining what has happened to those publics within which we speak. I s…
Transnational Yoruba revivalism and the diasporic politics of heritage
This article explores the making of social membership in U.S.-based deterritorialized contexts and interrogate the ways that black-Atlantic diasporic imaginaries are intertwined to produce transnational notions of linkage. In charting a genealogy of a transnational orisa movement that came of age in a moment of black-nationalist protest, I pose questions about how such a study should be understood in relation to ethnographies of global networks. …
Rethinking Sovereignty through Hashtag Publics
Notes on Cultural Citizenship in the Black Atlantic World
Religion, Society, Theory
This introductory essay to a special issue of Religion and Society: Advances in Research outlines the shifting conceptual landscape of the study of religion. It argues that the field is undergoing a significant transformation, moving beyond the limitations of earlier paradigms. The authors suggest that new approaches are needed to address the complex and multifaceted ways in which religion intersects with other social domains, such as politics, e…
Affective Justice
This article contributes to contemporary debates in the anthropology of international justice by exploring how narratives about the International Criminal Court have been applied, understood, and contested. It traces the way that justice is materialized and made legible as a domain of practice that is predicated on deeply embedded racialized logics, which are themselves obscured in the process. The article focuses on how bodies, psychologies, and…
Toward Reflexivity in the Anthropology of Expertise and Law
Black Bones Matter
The Banality of Bones I n 1985, teenage sisters Delisha and Tree Africa lived in West Philadelphia, in a communal housing settlement founded by a revolutionary organisation known as MOVE.Originally called the "Christian Movement for Life" and renamed MOVE in the early 1970s, the group combined philosophies of Black nationalism and a lifestyle of raw foods, urban farming and opposition to modern science and capitalism.Founded by Vincent Leaphart (…
Rendering the absent visible
Contemporary justice-making processes often focus on reconciliation or legal retribution, but not on the complexity of victimhood beyond individual subjectivity or refusals of state propositions for social repair. In Colombia, where drug cartels and state-sponsored violence had terrorized the population for over fifty years, it was not forgiveness and acceptance that punctuated the turn of the twenty-first century, but the refusal to reconcile wi…
Rethinking Africa through its Exclusions
The African focus on the International Criminal Court (ICC) rule of law movement is far from incidental. It has everything to do with the identification of particular crimes as of gravest concern to humanity, crimes which, when viewed in political terms, foster cooperation by the majority of state parties. This article explores the workings of a global elite of liberalist lawyers and policy makers engaged in establishing what particular types of …
Male Victims of Sexual Violence and Factors Associated With Reporting to Law Enforcement in the United States
Of the violent crimes, sexual assault remains the least likely to be reported to law enforcement across various countries, particularly for male victims. Addressing this gap in the literature, this study uses National Crime Victimization Survey data from 1992 to 2020 to examine the relationship between victim, offender, and situational characteristics to the reporting of rape for male victims by both male and female offenders. Of the 330 male vic…
New frontiers in international human rights
This article explores the emergence of various international justice narratives that operate as legal nonperformatives, making the law and law making seem liberatory. It shows that the ratification of a treaty may not qualify as a form of state expression or a speech act advocating human rights. Instead, it can be interpreted through semiotics as sending a signal about a stance. By examining this proleptic space, we can begin to make sense of wha…
Beyond Genealogies
This article considers the way genealogical approaches to religion have not been able to take into account how the production of knowledge, including religious knowledge, affects global politics. Specifically, it is concerned with the production of expert testimony, which is used to provide the evidentiary basis for a new industry of civil and human rights claims and protections. I explore how genealogical approaches to religion offer a way to se…
Refiguring the perpetrator
This article is about the ways that the notion of the African perpetrator and notions of ‘culpability' are mediated through a distinct colonial–postcolonial continuum. These different assessments for assigning and comprehending guilt result in what I term an ‘ICC impunity gap’. Epitomising this gap is the case against Kenya's William Ruto and the recently dropped case against Uhuru Kenyatta, whose indictments by the International Criminal Court (…
Santeria from Africa to the New World
Santeriafrom Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell Memories. George Brandon. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993. 207 pp. (Cloth US$35.00; Paper US$11.95)
Jews and the American Slave Trade
Book Review| April 01 2000 Jews and the American Slave Trade Jews and the American Slave Trade, Saul S. Friedman. Kamari M. Clarke Kamari M. Clarke Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2000) 19 (3): 129–130. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502597 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kamari M. Clarke; Jews and the American Slave Trade. …
Santeria from Africa to the New World
Santeriafrom Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell Memories. George Brandon. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993. 207 pp. (Cloth US$35.00; Paper US$11.95)
Governmentality, Modernity and the Historical Politics of Ọ̀yọ́-Hegemony in Yorùbá Transnational Revivalism
Keywords: history, power, geotemporality, race, Yoruba, [Symbol Not Transcribed]Oy[Symbol Not Transcribed]otunji, African villageRed blood splattered throughout the oval-shaped room. Robed in his best African clothes and by pulling the trigger of a borrowed shotgun, one of [Symbol Not Transcribed]Oy[Symbol Not Transcribed]otunji's young men had fallen to his death. The news of the suicide rang throughout the community. His last words inscribed on…
Mapping Yorùbá Networks
Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Oyotunji African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the other the establishment of an ancient Yoruba Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles southwest of Charleston, Oyotunji is a Yoruba revivalist community founded in 1970. "Mapping Yoruba Networks" is an innovative ethnography of Oyotunji and a theoretically sophisticated…
Globalization and Race
The Globalization of Human Rights
The United Nations University is an organ of the United Nations established by the General Assembly in 1972 to be an international community of scholars engaged in research, advanced training, and the dissemination of knowledge related
Transnational Yoruba revivalism and the diasporic politics of heritage
This article explores the making of social membership in U.S.-based deterritorialized contexts and interrogate the ways that black-Atlantic diasporic imaginaries are intertwined to produce transnational notions of linkage. In charting a genealogy of a transnational orisa movement that came of age in a moment of black-nationalist protest, I pose questions about how such a study should be understood in relation to ethnographies of global networks. …
Fictions of Justice
By taking up the challenge of documenting how human rights values are embedded in rule of law movements to produce a new language of international justice that competes with a range of other formations, this book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and grassroots contestations of those practices. These micropractices include speech acts that revere the protection of international rights, citation referen…
New Spheres of Transnational Formations
The subject of this article is the reinscription of a new diaspora in the public sphere by which governments and multilateral institutions are mobilizing. The following argues that these kinds of mobilizations have had the effect of subverting traditional approaches to diasporic linkage that in African and African American studies have privileged trans-Atlantic slavery and its consequent social dislocations and led to the marginalization of other…
Response by Author
The Politics of Faith and the Limits of Scientific Reason
This article explores the reality of translating or vernacularizing practices in relation to the politics of religion and the realities of faith. Taking violence as endemic to the processes of vernacularization and translation, the article articulates an analytic theory of religious faith-the way it is violated, often in the interest of making it legible within neo-liberal universalizing trends. Thinking about these realities involves understandi…
Rethinking Africa through its Exclusions
The African focus on the International Criminal Court (ICC) rule of law movement is far from incidental. It has everything to do with the identification of particular crimes as of gravest concern to humanity, crimes which, when viewed in political terms, foster cooperation by the majority of state parties. This article explores the workings of a global elite of liberalist lawyers and policy makers engaged in establishing what particular types of …
Toward a Critically Engaged Ethnographic Practice
This article interogates what it means for anthropologists as "social critics" to be engaged in documenting efforts that not only have explanatory power but connect that power to praxis. The key here is to recognize how delimiting innocence and guilt in the context of war is clearly a political act that is not without problems. It involves identifying our public spheres and determining what has happened to those publics within which we speak. I s…
Religion, Society, Theory
This introductory essay to a special issue of Religion and Society: Advances in Research outlines the shifting conceptual landscape of the study of religion. It argues that the field is undergoing a significant transformation, moving beyond the limitations of earlier paradigms. The authors suggest that new approaches are needed to address the complex and multifaceted ways in which religion intersects with other social domains, such as politics, e…
Notes on Cultural Citizenship in the Black Atlantic World
Assemblages of Experts
This essay explores the ways that new judicial formations centered on the Caribbean Court of Justice provide a space for understanding the workings of various legal rights brokers as central to a project of Caribbean regionalism. It examines the intermediary spaces in which legal brokers—predominantly nationals of countries in the region—are reconstructing legal regimes through which new spaces of Caribbean regional unity are taking shape. The de…
Refiguring the perpetrator
This article is about the ways that the notion of the African perpetrator and notions of ‘culpability' are mediated through a distinct colonial–postcolonial continuum. These different assessments for assigning and comprehending guilt result in what I term an ‘ICC impunity gap’. Epitomising this gap is the case against Kenya's William Ruto and the recently dropped case against Uhuru Kenyatta, whose indictments by the International Criminal Court (…
Africa and the ICC
Africa and the ICC: Realities and Perceptions comprises contributions from prominent scholars of different disciplines including international law, political science, cultural anthropology, African history and media studies. This unique collection provides the reader with detailed insights into the interaction between the African Union and the International Criminal Court (ICC), but also looks further at the impact of the ICC at a societal level …
International Justice and the Politics of Sentimentality
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Urgency of New Historiographies in International Relations
This essay explores Siba Grovogui's publication of Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy: Memories of International Order and Institutions as a way to ponder how histories of international relations are told. Clarke considers Grovogui's central point concerning the relationship between Western intellectual anxieties and postcolonial methods and modes of thought. One domain for interrogating the contemporary significance of the work is the call for new …
Rethinking Sovereignty through Hashtag Publics
Beyond Genealogies
This article considers the way genealogical approaches to religion have not been able to take into account how the production of knowledge, including religious knowledge, affects global politics. Specifically, it is concerned with the production of expert testimony, which is used to provide the evidentiary basis for a new industry of civil and human rights claims and protections. I explore how genealogical approaches to religion offer a way to se…
The African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights in Context
The treaty creating the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights, if and when it comes into force, contains innovative elements that have potentially significant implications for current substantive and procedural approaches to regional and international dispute settlements. Bringing together leading authorities in international criminal law, human rights and transitional justice, this volume provides the first comprehensive analysi…
‘The beauty…is that it speaks for itself’
This essay takes up the incorporation of geospatial materials into international criminal law and its institutional locations, focusing on the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC). We consider how geospatial materials such as satellite imagery are conscripted as legal materials for international criminal trials, and how these relatively novel forms of evidence require interventions of technical knowledge through expert witness testimony…
Affective Justice
This article contributes to contemporary debates in the anthropology of international justice by exploring how narratives about the International Criminal Court have been applied, understood, and contested. It traces the way that justice is materialized and made legible as a domain of practice that is predicated on deeply embedded racialized logics, which are themselves obscured in the process. The article focuses on how bodies, psychologies, and…
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