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International Law's Objects
Edited by Jessie Hohmann and Daniel Joyce.
“What might objects, rather than texts, tell us about sources, recognition of states, construction of territory, law of the sea, or international human rights law?” -
Law in concrete: institutional architecture in Brussels and The Hague
By Renske Vos & Sofia Stolk
”One of the most iconic and concrete encounters one can have with international law is to visit its institutional buildings.” -
The Problem of the Revision of the Law of War
By Hersch Lauterpacht
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Beyond Texts? Towards a Material Turn in the Theory and History of International Law
By Daniel Ricardo Quiroga-Villamarín
”Influenced by the new materialisms, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists have highlighted the role of objects and nonhuman infrastructures in the making of the social” -
Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law
By Christine Schwöbel-Patel,
“A critical study of efforts to 'sell' global justice” -
The Official UN Gift Shop
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Legal Sightseeing
Exploring international law’s images, stories and audiences.
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Backstage Practices of Transnational Law
This book illuminates the routines and habits that are crucial to the field of International Law, yet rarely studied
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No Logo
By Naomi Klein
“A riveting exposé of the branded and corporate world in which we live” -
The Everyday Makers of International Law
By Tommaso Soave
“A unique insight into the inner workings of international courts and tribunals.
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Law's Documents Authority, Materiality, Aesthetics
Katherine Biber, Trish Luker, and Priya Vaughan (eds)
“A comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of legal documents and their manifold forms, uses, materialities and meanings.” -
Local Space, Global Life: The Everyday Operation of International Law and Development
By Luis Eslava
“Engages with the expansive, ground-level and intertwined operations of international law and the development project by discussing the current international focus on local jurisdictions.” -
The Aesthetics of International Law
By Ed Morgan
“A literary parsing of international legal texts in order to demonstrate how these types of legal narratives are imbued with modernist aesthetics“ -
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
Arjun Appadurai (ed)
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Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
By Frank Trentman
“The extraordinary story of our modern material world“ -
The Gift
By Marcel Mauss
“Study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure” -
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
By Bruno Latour
“A fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'‘. -
An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns
By Bruno Latour
“Offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern, a work that interrogated the connections between nature and culture.” -
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
By Pierre Bourdieu
“A vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind.” -
The Field of Cultural Production
By Pierre Bourdieu
“Bourdieu elaborates a theory of the cultural field which situates artistic works within the social conditions of their production, circulation, and consumption.” -
The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism
By David Kennedy
“Explores what can go awry when we put our humanitarian yearnings into action on a global scale”