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Queering Governance and International Law: The Case of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Queering Governance and International Law: The Case of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Biddolph, Caitlin

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations

General LawGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0197803148
ISBN13: 9780197803141
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 31 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.33
Language: English
International law is brought into existence by actors from a variety of perspectives--international lawyers, state representatives, bureaucrats, and organizations--and as such, international law is riddled with contradictions. It is violent and violating, reducing complex lives and histories to good (lawful) and bad (criminal) bodies subject to protection, praise, or punishment. And yet it has potential to be a means of hope, resistance, and justice for victims, survivors, and oppressed communities.

In Queering Governance and International Law, Caitlin Biddolph examines the international legal space through queer, feminist, and postcolonial lenses. In doing so, she queers governance and international law, exposing the gendered and sexualized meanings behind legal concepts like violence, and critiquing legal status quos so that more transformative, liberatory, and queerer paths to justice might be dreamt and manifested within and beyond international law. Using as a case study the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Biddolph traces the cis-heteronormative underpinnings of legal violence, and identifies ways that violence can be resisted and international law subverted to dismantle the very gendered and racial hierarchies it has reinforced.

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