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Spectators to the spectacle of law: the formation of a ‘validating public’ at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
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posted on 2023-06-08, 12:25 authored by Nigel EltringhamWhile the ethnography of contemporary courtrooms has been dominated by a concern with speech, this article considers how a silent, validating public is constructed within court complexes. Drawing on fieldwork at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Arusha, Tanzania), I explore how the court’s threshold practices form validating witnesses whose embodied deference contributes to the constitution of the courtroom as a space of privileged speech. I suggest, therefore, that court spectators are not incidental, but are integral to juridical spectacle and the authority of law.
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EthnosISSN
0014-1844Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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3Volume
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425-445Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
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2012-10-03First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2012-09-14Usage metrics
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