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4 - The Sentiment of Objectivity

Arranging Objects and Subjects in the ICC Courtroom

from Part II - Sentiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

Jonas Bens
Affiliation:
Freie Universität Berlin
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Objectivity is generally thought of as antithetical to emotion. Chapter 5 makes an argument to the contrary: that objectivity is itself a sentiment. Mobilizing the idea of the courtroom as an affective arrangement, producing objectivity is described as the practice of arranging objects in the courtroom in order to create specific affective dynamics. All actors in the courtroom compete with one another to confer the status of object or subject onto certain human or nonhuman bodies in the courtroom ‒ either to make their own points or to sabotage the arrangement of bodies as posited by their competitors. This relational perspective on objectivity casts a new light on knowledge production in the courtroom. (~7,800 words)

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The Sentimental Court
The Affective Life of International Criminal Justice
, pp. 92 - 110
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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