Description
We witness the conduct of war targeting populations and are compelled to ask about the conditions of possibility for such conduct with impunity. War is constitutively of injury, but its mark must be traced in relation to the subject, to populations targeted, to infrastructures and public spaces, and the very possibility of politics. Using the concept of injury, and drawing on critical political thought, this paper focuses on the concept’s generative force, beyond conflict and beyond war, towards justice and the distinctly political processes that produce judgement and the potential of repair. The paper will consider how the international, as a distinct location of politics, might answer the promise of justice steering the argument between claims that the structure of the international is itself injurious to those that seek repair and redress through its mechanisms.
