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04055aam a2200385 i 4500 001 02CA1BC09F4311EBBB7E29A634ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210417010108 008 201109s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020043992 020 $a 0197535704 020 $a 9780197535707 035 $a (OCoLC)1221015671 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a KZ7145 $b .G73 2021 100 1 $a Graf, Sinja, $e author. 245 14 $a The humanity of universal crime : $b inclusion, inequality, and intervention in international political thought / $c Sinja Graf. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a ix, 261 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- "To regain some kind of human equality" : theorizing the political productivity of 'crimes against humanity' -- From humanity to sovereignty : universal crime and sovereign foundings in John Locke's Second Treatise of Government -- 'The conscience of the civilized world' : nineteenth century international law and the decline of notions of universal crime -- Cosmopolitanism and crimes against humanity : "global policing" and the legitimacy of political violence in the late twentieth century -- Conclusion. 520 $a ""Crimes against humanity" has become integral to contemporary political and legal discourse. The conceptual core of the term - an act offending against all of mankind -, however, runs deep in the history in international political thought. In an original excavation of this history, The Politics of Universal Crime examines theoretical mobilizations of the idea of "universal crime" in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The book demonstrates the overlooked centrality of humanity and criminality to political liberalism's historical engagement with world politics, thereby breaking with the exhaustively studied status of individual rights in liberal thought. It is argued that invocations of universal crime project humanity as a normatively integrated, yet minimally inclusive and hierarchically structured subject. Such visions of humanity have in turn underwritten justifications of foreign rule and outsider intervention based on claims to an injury universally suffered by all mankind. The study foregrounds the "political productivity" of universal crime that entails distinct figures, relationships and forms of authority and agency. The book traces this argument through European political theorists' deployments of universal crime in assessing the legitimacy of colonial rule and foreign intervention in non-European societies. Analyzing John Locke's notion of universal crime in the context of English colonialism, the concept's retooled circulation during the nineteenth century and contemporary cosmopolitanism's reliance on 'crimes against humanity', it identifies an 'inclusionary Eurocentrism' that subtends the authorizing and coercive dimensions of universal crime. Unlike much-studied 'exclusionary Eurocentrist' thinking, 'inclusionary Eurocentrist' arguments have historically extended an unequal, repressive 'recognition via liability' to non-European peoples"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Crimes against humanity $x Law and legislation. 650 0 $a Crimes against humanity. 650 0 $a International crimes $x Law and legislation. 650 0 $a International crimes. 650 7 $a Crimes against humanity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00883142 650 7 $a Crimes against humanity $x Law and legislation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01909430 650 7 $a International crimes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01761758 650 7 $a International crimes $x Law and legislation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01909731 776 08 $i Online version: $a Graf, Sinja. $t The politics of universal crime $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] $z 9780197535721 $w (DLC) 2020043993 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526020056.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=02CA1BC09F4311EBBB7E29A634ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search