Christiane Wilke
Biographic Data
| ID | 669408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christiane Wilke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christiane |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilke |
| SIGNATURE | WILKE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8787-4023 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Imperial ignorance and beyond: Mapping the production and practices of organized ignorance
Privileged and Other Civilians: Hierarchies of Credibility, Security, and Compensation in Afghanistan and Iraq
The distinction between civilians and combatants is central to international humanitarian law. Yet are there distinctions among civilians that scholars of international law and international relations should consider? On the basis of US military documents and practices, we argue that in the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, a hierarchy of ‘civilianness’ (Sutton) emerged. This hierarchy was structured along three observable axes of differe…
Legal technologies: Conceptualizing the legacy of the 1923 Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare
Many contemporary armed conflicts are shaped by the reliance on airstrikes using traditional fighter planes or remotely piloted drones. As accounts of civilian casualties from airstrikes abound, the ethics and legality of individual airstrikes and broader targeting practices remain contested. Yet these concerns and debates are not new. In fact, a key attempt to regulate aerial warfare was made 100 years ago. In this article, we approach the regul…
High Altitude Legality: Visuality and Jurisdiction in the Adjudication of Nato Air Strikes
Air strikes are the signature modality of violence used by NATO militaries. When civilian victims of NATO air strikes have turned to courts in NATO countries, they have generally not been successful. What are the legal techniques and legal knowledges deployed in Western courts that render Western aerial violence legal or extralegal? The article analyzes the responses by European courts to two sets of NATO bombings: the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia …
How International Law Learned to Love the Bomb: Civilians and the Regulation of Aerial Warfare in the 1920s
The 1923 Draft Rules on Aerial Warfare proposed regulations on aerial bombing. These Rules were also the first text intended to become an international treaty that mentioned civilians as a specific category of non-combatants. The civilian emerges in international law at the precise moment when they are about to be bombed. The article analyses the relationship between technologies, legal techniques, and the racialised and gendered articulation of …
Political Trials in Theory and History
Seeing and Unmaking Civilians in Afghanistan: Visual Technologies and Contested Professional Visions
While the distinction between civilians and combatants is fundamental to international law, it is contested and complicated in practice. How do North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officers see civilians in Afghanistan? Focusing on 2009 air strike in Kunduz, this article argues that the professional vision of NATO officers relies not only on recent military technologies that allow for aerial surveillance, thermal imaging, and precise targeti…
Law on a Slanted Globe: Traveling Models of Criminal Responsibility for State Violence
How do legal norms travel, spread, and change along the way? This article investigates the travels of one model of criminal responsibility for state violence as part of the global project of transitional justice. Claus Roxin’s model was first published in West Germany 1963 in order to address impunity for Nazi crimes, was not applied in its intended context, made its judicial debut in Argentina in 1985, had a comeback in Germany in 1994, traveled…
Remembering Complexity? Memorials for Nazi Victims in Berlin
How do memorials shape who we think we are? And how are our identities involved when we debate, create, and interact with memorials? This essay engages in a conversation with scholarship on intersectional identities and memorial practices in Berlin. Intersectionality scholarship, with its roots in US critical race feminism, has much to offer for thinking about the complexity of identities, yet it does not consider the role of memory, time, and te…
Identities in Transition: Challenges for Transitional Justice in Divided Societies
In many societies, histories of exclusion, racism and nationalist violence often create divisions so deep that finding a way to deal with the atrocities of the past seems nearly impossible. These societies face difficult practical questions about how to devise new state and civil society institutions that will respond to massive or systematic violations of human rights, recognize victims and prevent the recurrence of abuse. Identities in Transiti…
Enter Ghost: Haunted Courts and Haunting Judgments in Transitional Justice
Reconsecrating the Temple of Justice: Invocations of Civilization and Humanity in the Nuremberg Justice Case
Les procès de Nuremberg constituent le fondement du droit criminel international contemporain. Néanmoins, ces procès sont rarement étudiés dans un contexte social et conceptuel plus large. Cet article examine le contexte ainsi que le rôle du concept de «civilisation» tel qu'utilisé dans le cas de U.S. v. Altstoetter , c'est-à-dire le procès de 1947 des juges et administrateurs judiciaires nazis à Nuremberg. L'auteure place la référence au concept…
Recognizing Victimhood: Politics and Narratives of Rehabilitation in Germany
How does victimhood become a legal status? What are the preconditions, expectations, and restrictions attached to the state recognition of victims? This article draws upon theories of recognition to examine the German postunification “administrative rehabilitation” procedures for victims of East German state repression as a specific case of the state recognition of victims. An examination of victim claims and court decisions reveals that the lega…
War v. Justice: Terrorism Cases, Enemy Combatants, and Political Justice in U.S. Courts
What mechanisms led to the intractable legal situation of “enemy combatants” detained by the U.S. government in Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere? And what does the role of the judiciary in the enemy combatants cases suggest about politically contentious court cases in general? This article develops a two-stage theory of political justice that is based on the U.S. post-9/11 terrorism cases. It demonstrates mechanisms by which politically contentious c…
A Particular Universality: Universal Jurisdiction for Crimes Against Humanity in Domestic Courts
Seeing and Unmaking Civilians in Afghanistan: Visual Technologies and Contested Professional Visions
While the distinction between civilians and combatants is fundamental to international law, it is contested and complicated in practice. How do North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officers see civilians in Afghanistan? Focusing on 2009 air strike in Kunduz, this article argues that the professional vision of NATO officers relies not only on recent military technologies that allow for aerial surveillance, thermal imaging, and precise targeti…
Remembering Complexity? Memorials for Nazi Victims in Berlin
How do memorials shape who we think we are? And how are our identities involved when we debate, create, and interact with memorials? This essay engages in a conversation with scholarship on intersectional identities and memorial practices in Berlin. Intersectionality scholarship, with its roots in US critical race feminism, has much to offer for thinking about the complexity of identities, yet it does not consider the role of memory, time, and te…
Recognizing Victimhood: Politics and Narratives of Rehabilitation in Germany
How does victimhood become a legal status? What are the preconditions, expectations, and restrictions attached to the state recognition of victims? This article draws upon theories of recognition to examine the German postunification “administrative rehabilitation” procedures for victims of East German state repression as a specific case of the state recognition of victims. An examination of victim claims and court decisions reveals that the lega…
War v. Justice: Terrorism Cases, Enemy Combatants, and Political Justice in U.S. Courts
What mechanisms led to the intractable legal situation of “enemy combatants” detained by the U.S. government in Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere? And what does the role of the judiciary in the enemy combatants cases suggest about politically contentious court cases in general? This article develops a two-stage theory of political justice that is based on the U.S. post-9/11 terrorism cases. It demonstrates mechanisms by which politically contentious c…
High Altitude Legality: Visuality and Jurisdiction in the Adjudication of Nato Air Strikes
Air strikes are the signature modality of violence used by NATO militaries. When civilian victims of NATO air strikes have turned to courts in NATO countries, they have generally not been successful. What are the legal techniques and legal knowledges deployed in Western courts that render Western aerial violence legal or extralegal? The article analyzes the responses by European courts to two sets of NATO bombings: the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia …
Enter Ghost: Haunted Courts and Haunting Judgments in Transitional Justice
Reconsecrating the Temple of Justice: Invocations of Civilization and Humanity in the Nuremberg Justice Case
Les procès de Nuremberg constituent le fondement du droit criminel international contemporain. Néanmoins, ces procès sont rarement étudiés dans un contexte social et conceptuel plus large. Cet article examine le contexte ainsi que le rôle du concept de «civilisation» tel qu'utilisé dans le cas de U.S. v. Altstoetter , c'est-à-dire le procès de 1947 des juges et administrateurs judiciaires nazis à Nuremberg. L'auteure place la référence au concept…
A Particular Universality: Universal Jurisdiction for Crimes Against Humanity in Domestic Courts
War v. Justice: Terrorism Cases, Enemy Combatants, and Political Justice in U.S. Courts
What mechanisms led to the intractable legal situation of “enemy combatants” detained by the U.S. government in Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere? And what does the role of the judiciary in the enemy combatants cases suggest about politically contentious court cases in general? This article develops a two-stage theory of political justice that is based on the U.S. post-9/11 terrorism cases. It demonstrates mechanisms by which politically contentious c…
A Particular Universality: Universal Jurisdiction for Crimes Against Humanity in Domestic Courts
Recognizing Victimhood: Politics and Narratives of Rehabilitation in Germany
How does victimhood become a legal status? What are the preconditions, expectations, and restrictions attached to the state recognition of victims? This article draws upon theories of recognition to examine the German postunification “administrative rehabilitation” procedures for victims of East German state repression as a specific case of the state recognition of victims. An examination of victim claims and court decisions reveals that the lega…
Reconsecrating the Temple of Justice: Invocations of Civilization and Humanity in the Nuremberg Justice Case
Les procès de Nuremberg constituent le fondement du droit criminel international contemporain. Néanmoins, ces procès sont rarement étudiés dans un contexte social et conceptuel plus large. Cet article examine le contexte ainsi que le rôle du concept de «civilisation» tel qu'utilisé dans le cas de U.S. v. Altstoetter , c'est-à-dire le procès de 1947 des juges et administrateurs judiciaires nazis à Nuremberg. L'auteure place la référence au concept…
Identities in Transition: Challenges for Transitional Justice in Divided Societies
In many societies, histories of exclusion, racism and nationalist violence often create divisions so deep that finding a way to deal with the atrocities of the past seems nearly impossible. These societies face difficult practical questions about how to devise new state and civil society institutions that will respond to massive or systematic violations of human rights, recognize victims and prevent the recurrence of abuse. Identities in Transiti…
Enter Ghost: Haunted Courts and Haunting Judgments in Transitional Justice
Remembering Complexity? Memorials for Nazi Victims in Berlin
How do memorials shape who we think we are? And how are our identities involved when we debate, create, and interact with memorials? This essay engages in a conversation with scholarship on intersectional identities and memorial practices in Berlin. Intersectionality scholarship, with its roots in US critical race feminism, has much to offer for thinking about the complexity of identities, yet it does not consider the role of memory, time, and te…
Law on a Slanted Globe: Traveling Models of Criminal Responsibility for State Violence
How do legal norms travel, spread, and change along the way? This article investigates the travels of one model of criminal responsibility for state violence as part of the global project of transitional justice. Claus Roxin’s model was first published in West Germany 1963 in order to address impunity for Nazi crimes, was not applied in its intended context, made its judicial debut in Argentina in 1985, had a comeback in Germany in 1994, traveled…
Political Trials in Theory and History
Seeing and Unmaking Civilians in Afghanistan: Visual Technologies and Contested Professional Visions
While the distinction between civilians and combatants is fundamental to international law, it is contested and complicated in practice. How do North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officers see civilians in Afghanistan? Focusing on 2009 air strike in Kunduz, this article argues that the professional vision of NATO officers relies not only on recent military technologies that allow for aerial surveillance, thermal imaging, and precise targeti…
How International Law Learned to Love the Bomb: Civilians and the Regulation of Aerial Warfare in the 1920s
The 1923 Draft Rules on Aerial Warfare proposed regulations on aerial bombing. These Rules were also the first text intended to become an international treaty that mentioned civilians as a specific category of non-combatants. The civilian emerges in international law at the precise moment when they are about to be bombed. The article analyses the relationship between technologies, legal techniques, and the racialised and gendered articulation of …
High Altitude Legality: Visuality and Jurisdiction in the Adjudication of Nato Air Strikes
Air strikes are the signature modality of violence used by NATO militaries. When civilian victims of NATO air strikes have turned to courts in NATO countries, they have generally not been successful. What are the legal techniques and legal knowledges deployed in Western courts that render Western aerial violence legal or extralegal? The article analyzes the responses by European courts to two sets of NATO bombings: the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia …
Legal technologies: Conceptualizing the legacy of the 1923 Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare
Many contemporary armed conflicts are shaped by the reliance on airstrikes using traditional fighter planes or remotely piloted drones. As accounts of civilian casualties from airstrikes abound, the ethics and legality of individual airstrikes and broader targeting practices remain contested. Yet these concerns and debates are not new. In fact, a key attempt to regulate aerial warfare was made 100 years ago. In this article, we approach the regul…
Imperial ignorance and beyond: Mapping the production and practices of organized ignorance
Privileged and Other Civilians: Hierarchies of Credibility, Security, and Compensation in Afghanistan and Iraq
The distinction between civilians and combatants is central to international humanitarian law. Yet are there distinctions among civilians that scholars of international law and international relations should consider? On the basis of US military documents and practices, we argue that in the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, a hierarchy of ‘civilianness’ (Sutton) emerged. This hierarchy was structured along three observable axes of differe…
Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · International Law and Human Rights (8 works) · Criminology (6 works) · International law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)