Humanity and Its Beneficiaries

Footing and Stance-Taking in an International Criminal Trial

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ID13085802
AuthorsSigurd D''Hondt (0000-0003-2456-9229, University of Jyväskylä, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume7
Issue3
Pages427-453
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSigns and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2326-4489 • E-ISSN: 2326-4497
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/705279
OpenAlexW2989730282
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited47

This article elucidates the role of metapragmatic devices like footing and stance-taking in trial hearings before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. It focuses on the case of Ahmad al Faqi al Mahdi, a Malian Islamist found guilty of the 2012 destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu. We examine how the prosecution and defense reflexively formulate the hearing as part of a wider text trajectory and how they align personae across participation frameworks by locating the current courtroom event into a wider dialogical field. A careful inspection of these metapragmatic devices reveals how trial participants navigate the multiple tensions facing this emergent, amalgamated form of criminal adjudication, which lacks a coercive apparatus of its own and still bears the traces of the political act of its institution

Adjudication · Criminology · Dialogical self · Event (particle physics · Institution · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African Studies and Geopolitics · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Law · North African History and Literature · Psychology · Social Psychology

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