Registering time in recognising torturous harm: Figuring the single, plural and historical in torture’s adjudication
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Registering time in recognising torturous harm : Figuring the single, plural and historical in torture’s adjudication. / Cakal, Ergun.
I: Social & Legal Studies, Bind 33, Nr. 2, 04.03.2024, s. 276.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Registering time in recognising torturous harm
T2 - Figuring the single, plural and historical in torture’s adjudication
AU - Cakal, Ergun
PY - 2024/3/4
Y1 - 2024/3/4
N2 - How does time feature and function in juridical understandings of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment? With a view to international human rights adjudication, this article offers a kaleidoscopic reading of temporal logics (registers and reasoning) operating in the contemporary anti-torture cause and jurisprudence. Time, it is found, plays an important albeit at times implicit role in how judges imagine and evidence torturous harms brought before them. This article explicates and singles out time as a factor. It finds that, whilst indeterminacies and ambiguities persist, singular (and spectacular) or plural (and prolonged) harmful acts and impacts operate to serve adjudicators’ reasoning, variably (and intuitively) to find violations or to divert from doing so. Time thus works as a device of inclusion and exclusion.
AB - How does time feature and function in juridical understandings of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment? With a view to international human rights adjudication, this article offers a kaleidoscopic reading of temporal logics (registers and reasoning) operating in the contemporary anti-torture cause and jurisprudence. Time, it is found, plays an important albeit at times implicit role in how judges imagine and evidence torturous harms brought before them. This article explicates and singles out time as a factor. It finds that, whilst indeterminacies and ambiguities persist, singular (and spectacular) or plural (and prolonged) harmful acts and impacts operate to serve adjudicators’ reasoning, variably (and intuitively) to find violations or to divert from doing so. Time thus works as a device of inclusion and exclusion.
U2 - 10.1177/09646639231180301
DO - 10.1177/09646639231180301
M3 - Journal article
VL - 33
SP - 276
JO - Social and Legal Studies
JF - Social and Legal Studies
SN - 0964-6639
IS - 2
ER -
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