How bodies challenge disciplinary binaries: re-examining law and the arts inside the Marikana Commission of Inquiry

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Law and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI:10.1080/17521483.2022.2123617

Robyn Gill-Leslie

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ABSTRACT The field of transitional justice exemplifies the ‘law and … ’ approach to interdisciplinarity, in the way it has welcomed the arts as a critical counterpoint to legal form. This article challenges conventional notions of interdisciplinarity in this field, claiming that the maintenance of rigid disciplinary boundaries between the law and the arts results in pigeon-holing creativity as a critical foil for the law; and ignoring law’s internal capacity for practices and processes of critique. This reductive perspective denies the potential of both disciplines to offer complicity and critique. Using the Marikana Commission of Inquiry as a transitional justice case study, this article argues that an affective and corporeal perspective reflects the possibility of fluidity between complicity and critique inside both the law and the art of truth-seeking after atrocity. Turning away from binaristic analysis, this case study offers an alternative reading of corporeal agency inside both the law and the arts of truth recovery, discovering a dynamic and co-generative space that highlights the constraints and possibilities of each discipline.

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机构如何挑战学科二元对立：重新审视马里卡纳调查委员会内部的法律和艺术

摘要过渡时期司法领域体现了 … ’ 这篇文章挑战了该领域传统的跨学科概念，声称在法律和艺术之间保持严格的学科界限会导致创造性成为法律的关键陪衬；忽视法律的内部实践能力和批判过程。这种简化的观点否定了两个学科提供共谋和批判的潜力。本文以马里卡纳调查委员会为过渡司法案例研究，认为情感和物质的视角反映了法律和暴行后真相调查艺术中共谋和批判之间流动的可能性。远离二元分析，本案例研究提供了对法律和真相恢复艺术中的物质能动性的另一种解读，发现了一个动态的、共同生成的空间，突出了每个学科的约束和可能性。

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期刊介绍： Law and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for scholarly discourse within the arts and humanities around the subject of law. For this purpose, the arts and humanities disciplines are taken to include literature, history (including history of art), philosophy, theology, classics and the whole spectrum of performance and representational arts. The remit of the journal does not extend to consideration of the laws that regulate practical aspects of the arts and humanities (such as the law of intellectual property). Law and Humanities is principally concerned to engage with those aspects of human experience which are not empirically quantifiable or scientifically predictable. Each issue will carry four or five major articles of between 8,000 and 12,000 words each. The journal will also carry shorter papers (up to 4,000 words) sharing good practice in law and humanities education; reports of conferences; reviews of books, exhibitions, plays, concerts and other artistic publications.