Migrants, Settlers and Refugees

This chapter collapses the common juxtaposition of local place and global space by drawing on ethnographic evidence gathered at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It argues that in spite of its apparent universality and remoteness from local concerns, international criminal justice, as global legal order in general, is made and instantiated in particular places ranging from boardrooms in New York and Washington to the tribunals in The Hague, Arusha and Freetown. The chapter presents ethnography of one of the places where a new global legal order is in the making. It elucidates the concrete processes influencing the field of international criminal justice and maps the local conditions and the external influences that have impinged upon the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the trials being heard there. The chapter deals with the symbolism of the physical presence of the Special Court. It outlines the court's international environment and the influence of the domestic political landscape

Citizenship · Criminology · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture

• Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

  Anthony Reid, Benedict Anderson•Pacific Affairs•1985

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