New Research Assistant at iCourts - Joseph Bernasol
Joseph joins the ERC project JustSites and iCourts from 1 June 2023 until July 2024. Joseph holds a MSc in Social Anthropology from the University Copenhagen, and bachelor degrees in international relations and Market and Management Anthropology. Recently, he has worked as a scientific assistant at the Department of Business and Management, University of Southern Denmark, where he taught and supervised undergraduate and graduate students, as well as conducted some research on vaccine skepticism in Denmark. His own research interests lie primarily in ethics/morality; confinement; criminality; and welfare statecraft. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Danish closed-prisons and among former offenders in combat sports gyms.
Joseph will be working with the JustSites Project and Dr. Mikkel Jarle Christensen. Moving beyond the conventional focus on courts and their context in ICJ scholarship, in a first step, JustSites explores the constellation of “justice sites” that drive and define the direction(s) of international criminal justice. These sites are understood as the localities in which legal, political and professional activities occur, such as conflict zones, law firms, international courts, and media outlets. In a second step, the project seeks to understand how power and authority negotiate the relationships between these justice sites.