The Haunting of International Law: ‘Making Polysense’ of our Uchronian Times of In/Justice
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The Haunting of International Law: ‘Making Polysense’ of our Uchronian Times of In/Justice
German Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 67(2024), Iss. 1 : pp. 223–252 | First published online: June 23, 2025
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Dr. Bérénice Kafui Schramm, Bahçeşehir University (BAU), Law Faculty 34349 Beşiktaş/İstanbul, Turkiye
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Abstract: Drawing from various critical approaches – feminist, queer, postcolonial, decolonial, Indigenous studies – this text weaves a tentative answer to the life-or-death-as-(in)justice questions raised like never before perhaps, through international law and its professionals, by the virtual im/possibility of justice as affectively experienced in Gaza, in the sea and in/for the future. Reframing justice as this spectral moment haunted by the ghosts of those violently erased by law, the text invites the reader to the unusual yet crucial exercise of ‘making polysense’ of time, and our times, in international law through a turn away from normative temporalities in favour of uchronia, thanks to a turn within via affective theory, and a turn towards Other(ed) epistemologies. In doing so, now kin to ghostly matters, the reader may grasp how implicated we all are in our current times of in/justice.
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| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bérénice K. Schramm\nThe Haunting of International Law: ‘Making Polysense’ of our Uchronian Times of In/Justice | 223 | ||
| I. Haunting as Opening | 224 | ||
| II. Making Polysense of Our Times: (Re-)Counting Time, Law, and Violence with Ghosts and Butterflies | 227 | ||
| A. 10 November: (Un-)Dead Lives | 227 | ||
| B. 25 November: Living After/Living With/Living On | 229 | ||
| C. 19 January: Counter-Memory | 231 | ||
| D. 7 October: Ungrievable/Ungrieved Grief | 231 | ||
| III. Recovering Uchronia or Encountering International Law’s Specters of In/Justice | 233 | ||
| A. qahr | 235 | ||
| B. Tout-Monde | 241 | ||
| C. seed | 247 | ||
| IV. Haunting as Uchronic Hope | 251 |