Scapegoats and Underdogs: Narrative Control and Defence Positioning within and beyond the International Criminal Court
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Scapegoats and Underdogs : Narrative Control and Defence Positioning within and beyond the International Criminal Court. / Godzimirska, Zuzanna; Orina, Nabil Mokaya.
In: International Criminal Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2023, p. 443–463.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Scapegoats and Underdogs
T2 - Narrative Control and Defence Positioning within and beyond the International Criminal Court
AU - Godzimirska, Zuzanna
AU - Orina, Nabil Mokaya
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Building on a growing body of scholarship that accentuates the communicative foundations and dimensions of international criminal justice, the article explores how defendants and their defence teams navigate the discursive battleground in the course of trials at the International Criminal Court (icc). Given the central role of narratives in the construction and (de)legitimation of identities, and their profound implications for perceptions about trial participants, the article seeks to understand what implications defences’ relative disadvantage vis-á-vis the prosecutions’ in terms of institutional support, access to resources and media visibility, have for their strategies of narrative control and positioning. To this end, the article charts the discursive battle sites at global, regional and local levels, maps specific strategies of narrative control in these sites, and zooms in on two prominent themes in the identity construction of defendants within and beyond the icc courtroom.
AB - Building on a growing body of scholarship that accentuates the communicative foundations and dimensions of international criminal justice, the article explores how defendants and their defence teams navigate the discursive battleground in the course of trials at the International Criminal Court (icc). Given the central role of narratives in the construction and (de)legitimation of identities, and their profound implications for perceptions about trial participants, the article seeks to understand what implications defences’ relative disadvantage vis-á-vis the prosecutions’ in terms of institutional support, access to resources and media visibility, have for their strategies of narrative control and positioning. To this end, the article charts the discursive battle sites at global, regional and local levels, maps specific strategies of narrative control in these sites, and zooms in on two prominent themes in the identity construction of defendants within and beyond the icc courtroom.
U2 - 10.1163/15718123-bja10156
DO - 10.1163/15718123-bja10156
M3 - Journal article
VL - 23
SP - 443
EP - 463
JO - International Criminal Law Review
JF - International Criminal Law Review
SN - 1567-536X
IS - 3
ER -
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