Maria Elander
Biographic Data
| ID | 1317895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Elander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Elander |
| SIGNATURE | ELANDER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3952-8393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Categorizing Perpetrators
Perpetrator Studies has a categorical problem: not in an absolute or unqualified sense, but as a problem of and with categories. In focusing on the category of perpetrators, Perpetrator Studies is premised on categorizations, even when these are questioned. This categorization makes for a field that is fundamentally split: one part reifying and enabling stereotypes and the other constantly reflecting and questioning the premise. In this review ar…
Pressing Evidence
Across the world, non-state actors are documenting international crimes and creating archives for accountability purposes. In this article, we consider how archives and their records are ‘pressed into’ legal service. At a time of wider archive creations, we suggest the archives pertaining to the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) provide insights as a compelling ‘post-accountability’ case of the continuum of archival processes. By examining four Khme…
Scales of Justice
This paper argues that a politics of scale plays a fundamental but uninterrogated role in internationalised criminal justice processes such as hybrid tribunals. Scale discourses—producing specific notions of “the international” and “the local”—are so naturalised in these endeavours that their regressive effects remain unacknowledged. Following Annelise Riles’ ground‐breaking analysis of the politics of scale in colonial law, and feminist critique…
Taking responsibility
Genocide films have long contributed to public criminology’s exploration into ethics, responsibility and witnessing after atrocity. Whereas post-Holocaust theorisations of testimony have focused on victim testimony (and its limits), a recent wave of documentary films are instead centering on the perpetrators of atrocity. These are raising the question of how to engage with that shared by a person who experienced an atrocity not as its victim but …
Visualizing Law and Justice at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
The body is falling backwards, facing the sky. The hands are clasped together in a sampeah , as if in greeting, as if in prayer. For the artist of the Cambodian Tragedy Memorial, also called A ceux qui ne sont plus là ( For those who are no longer here ), the body “speak[s] both to and beyond individual identity.” By standing both as personal testimony of loss and “in memory of the Cambodian genocide and its impossible representation,” the memori…
Framing the Duch Trial
In 2011, I sat in the public gallery during the initial hearings in the case against the then four surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC
Achievements and Legacies of the Khmer Rouge Trials
This article is an edited transcript of a panel discussion that was held in Melbourne in December 2017. The panel comprised four speakers, each with significant professional experience working at Cambodia’s hybrid tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). This panel was the first time such key insiders have come together outside of Cambodia and in an academic context to reflect on more than 10 years of the Court’s ope…
Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge Marriages
At the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the trial against the two surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge charged in Case 002 is about to deal with the ‘regulation of marriage’. This is the name given by the ECCC to the Khmer Rouge-instigated marriages also known as ‘red weddings’ or ‘forced marriage’. In this symbolically laden case, the charges relating to the marriages stand as the only alleged crime of sexual and gender-b…
A Nordic textile strategy
The proposed strategy for increased reuse and recycling of textiles provides a starting point for the work towards a more sustainable textile and fashion sector in the Nordic region. It is focused on the increased collection, sorting, reuse and recycling in the region and thereby provides one part of the sustainability puzzle in the sector. The proposed strategy includes incentives, policy measures and measures needed on local, regional, national…
Towards a Nordic textile strategy
This report is the primary outcome from Part I of the project “Towards a Nordic textile strategy - Collection, sorting, reuse and recycling of textiles” initiated by the Nordic Waste Group (NAG). The report for Part 2 will be published in December 2014.This report summarizes the work carried out in 2013. The three subreports will be the basis for the work to be performed in 2014. The reports for 2013 are: • International market survey of textile …
Towards a new Nordic textile commitment
This report is the primary outcome from Part I of the project “Towards a new Nordic textile commitment - Collection, sorting, reuse and recycling” initiated by the Nordic Waste Group (NAG). The report for Part 2 will be published in December 2014.This report summarizes the work carried out in 2013. The four subreports will be the basis for the work to be performed in 2014 with the aim of creating a Voluntary Commitment and a Code of Conduct. The …
The Victim's Address
Journal Article The Victim's Address: Expressivism and the Victim at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Get access Maria Elander Maria Elander * * PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 95–115, https…
Pressing Evidence
Across the world, non-state actors are documenting international crimes and creating archives for accountability purposes. In this article, we consider how archives and their records are ‘pressed into’ legal service. At a time of wider archive creations, we suggest the archives pertaining to the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) provide insights as a compelling ‘post-accountability’ case of the continuum of archival processes. By examining four Khme…
Achievements and Legacies of the Khmer Rouge Trials
This article is an edited transcript of a panel discussion that was held in Melbourne in December 2017. The panel comprised four speakers, each with significant professional experience working at Cambodia’s hybrid tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). This panel was the first time such key insiders have come together outside of Cambodia and in an academic context to reflect on more than 10 years of the Court’s ope…
The Victim's Address
Journal Article The Victim's Address: Expressivism and the Victim at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Get access Maria Elander Maria Elander * * PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 95–115, https…
Scales of Justice
This paper argues that a politics of scale plays a fundamental but uninterrogated role in internationalised criminal justice processes such as hybrid tribunals. Scale discourses—producing specific notions of “the international” and “the local”—are so naturalised in these endeavours that their regressive effects remain unacknowledged. Following Annelise Riles’ ground‐breaking analysis of the politics of scale in colonial law, and feminist critique…
Taking responsibility
Genocide films have long contributed to public criminology’s exploration into ethics, responsibility and witnessing after atrocity. Whereas post-Holocaust theorisations of testimony have focused on victim testimony (and its limits), a recent wave of documentary films are instead centering on the perpetrators of atrocity. These are raising the question of how to engage with that shared by a person who experienced an atrocity not as its victim but …
The Victim's Address
Journal Article The Victim's Address: Expressivism and the Victim at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Get access Maria Elander Maria Elander * * PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 95–115, https…
Towards a Nordic textile strategy
This report is the primary outcome from Part I of the project “Towards a Nordic textile strategy - Collection, sorting, reuse and recycling of textiles” initiated by the Nordic Waste Group (NAG). The report for Part 2 will be published in December 2014.This report summarizes the work carried out in 2013. The three subreports will be the basis for the work to be performed in 2014. The reports for 2013 are: • International market survey of textile …
Towards a new Nordic textile commitment
This report is the primary outcome from Part I of the project “Towards a new Nordic textile commitment - Collection, sorting, reuse and recycling” initiated by the Nordic Waste Group (NAG). The report for Part 2 will be published in December 2014.This report summarizes the work carried out in 2013. The four subreports will be the basis for the work to be performed in 2014 with the aim of creating a Voluntary Commitment and a Code of Conduct. The …
A Nordic textile strategy
The proposed strategy for increased reuse and recycling of textiles provides a starting point for the work towards a more sustainable textile and fashion sector in the Nordic region. It is focused on the increased collection, sorting, reuse and recycling in the region and thereby provides one part of the sustainability puzzle in the sector. The proposed strategy includes incentives, policy measures and measures needed on local, regional, national…
Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge Marriages
At the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the trial against the two surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge charged in Case 002 is about to deal with the ‘regulation of marriage’. This is the name given by the ECCC to the Khmer Rouge-instigated marriages also known as ‘red weddings’ or ‘forced marriage’. In this symbolically laden case, the charges relating to the marriages stand as the only alleged crime of sexual and gender-b…
Framing the Duch Trial
In 2011, I sat in the public gallery during the initial hearings in the case against the then four surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC
Achievements and Legacies of the Khmer Rouge Trials
This article is an edited transcript of a panel discussion that was held in Melbourne in December 2017. The panel comprised four speakers, each with significant professional experience working at Cambodia’s hybrid tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). This panel was the first time such key insiders have come together outside of Cambodia and in an academic context to reflect on more than 10 years of the Court’s ope…
Visualizing Law and Justice at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
The body is falling backwards, facing the sky. The hands are clasped together in a sampeah , as if in greeting, as if in prayer. For the artist of the Cambodian Tragedy Memorial, also called A ceux qui ne sont plus là ( For those who are no longer here ), the body “speak[s] both to and beyond individual identity.” By standing both as personal testimony of loss and “in memory of the Cambodian genocide and its impossible representation,” the memori…
Taking responsibility
Genocide films have long contributed to public criminology’s exploration into ethics, responsibility and witnessing after atrocity. Whereas post-Holocaust theorisations of testimony have focused on victim testimony (and its limits), a recent wave of documentary films are instead centering on the perpetrators of atrocity. These are raising the question of how to engage with that shared by a person who experienced an atrocity not as its victim but …
Scales of Justice
This paper argues that a politics of scale plays a fundamental but uninterrogated role in internationalised criminal justice processes such as hybrid tribunals. Scale discourses—producing specific notions of “the international” and “the local”—are so naturalised in these endeavours that their regressive effects remain unacknowledged. Following Annelise Riles’ ground‐breaking analysis of the politics of scale in colonial law, and feminist critique…
Pressing Evidence
Across the world, non-state actors are documenting international crimes and creating archives for accountability purposes. In this article, we consider how archives and their records are ‘pressed into’ legal service. At a time of wider archive creations, we suggest the archives pertaining to the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) provide insights as a compelling ‘post-accountability’ case of the continuum of archival processes. By examining four Khme…
Categorizing Perpetrators
Perpetrator Studies has a categorical problem: not in an absolute or unqualified sense, but as a problem of and with categories. In focusing on the category of perpetrators, Perpetrator Studies is premised on categorizations, even when these are questioned. This categorization makes for a field that is fundamentally split: one part reifying and enabling stereotypes and the other constantly reflecting and questioning the premise. In this review ar…
Cambodian History and Society (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)