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Do queer lives matter in international criminal justice? Queer ghosts and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

International criminal justice involves stories of war and violence. These stories establish survivors, perpetrators, and scenes of trauma, offering representations of embodied experiences of violation. All bodies are subject to violence, but not all bodies are seen – or heard – in international criminal justice. In this article, I argue that queer bodies – that is, those with non-normative sexual and gender practices and identities, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) people – are largely missing from international criminal justice discourses.

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Gendered repertoires of contention: women’s resistance, authoritarian state formation, and land grabbing in Cambodia

Amid a surge of “land grabbing” in Cambodia, women from across the country have led and sustained public protests to reclaim their lands. In this article, Saba Joshi studies the routines and performances of poor women’s collective action against the state and outlines four distinct types of “repertoires of contention” used by women in their protests: strategic positioning, anti-politics, self-sacrifice, and solidarity.

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