Transitional Justice and the Emotional Sense of Justice: Affective Transculturality in Trials at the ICC (B04)

• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: from 2015 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 258523721

This (legal) anthropological project investigates the affective dynamics unfolding in a trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Also researching the ICC's "outreach events" in the African state at issue, the project studies the transformations of these dynamics, when being translated into African contexts. Assuming that the effectivity of international criminal (transitional) justice crucially depends on it being experienced as also affectively just, this project develops a new theory of "affective justice", rooted in transcultural dynamics of emotional repertoires and individuals' affects. Regarding the collaborative research center, the project thus makes a law-centered contribution towards the overarching analysis of transcultural emotional repertoires.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1171: Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler, since 2/2017; Professor Dr. Olaf Zenker, until 1/2017