Jayyusi2015
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Jayyusi2015 |
| Author(s) | Lena Jayyusi |
| Title | Discursive cartographies, moral practices: international law and the Gaza war |
| Editor(s) | Baudouin Dupret, Michael Lynch, Tim Berard |
| Tag(s) | Law, Ethnomethodology |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| City | New York |
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| Pages | 273–298 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190210243.003.0012 |
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| Book title | Law at Work: Studies in Legal Ethnomethods |
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Abstract
This chapter explores the categories in use and the shifting fields of reference when international law was invoked by the different parties during and after the Israeli war on Gaza in December 2008. On one side, Israel insisted that all its actions were in keeping with international law; on the other, various parties, including human rights groups and lawyers’ groups, compiled a case for a war crimes investigation. These contestations reveal the proto-narrative character of the categories available in international law and the way they were differentially mapped in practice onto the lived field of activities and events. The same legal categories (such as the principle of distinction and the right to self-defense) were used in opposing ways, in line with distinct interpretive logics.
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