The Sentimental Court

by Jonas Bens

Modern law seems to be designed to keep emotions at bay. The Sentimental Court argues the exact opposite: that the law is not designed to cast out affective dynamics, but to create them. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork - both during the trial of former Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen at the International Criminal Court's headquarters in The Netherlands and in rural northern Uganda at the scenes of violence - this book is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316512878
• ISBN13: 9781316512876
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"