TY  - JOUR
A1  - Klosterkamp, Sarah
A1  - Jeffrey, Alex
T1  - The intimate geopolitics of evidence gathering in war crime investigation in Ukraine
T2  - Political geography open research
N2  - The Russian invasion of Ukraine illustrates the increasingly judicialized nature of international relations and geopolitics. By viewing aspects of the invasion as illegal – in particular through the identification of war crimes and crimes against humanity – the international response draws attention to the political geographies of international criminal investigation. Human rights groups, academics, journalists, and open-source forensic investigations have joined forces to collect, evaluate and analyze the violent nature of war crimes. While similar shifts in evidence gathering have been observed in the case of the Bosnia-Herzegovina war and the Assad regime's violence against Syrian citizens, the use of evidence-gathering technologies and evidence-securing institutions in the case of Ukraine is distinctive. In this scholarly intervention we seek to illustrate the intimate geopolitics of evidence gathering by zooming in on two different elements that shape evidential procedures in Ukraine: i) the blurring of civilian/military boundaries; and ii) the challenges of access. By evaluating what is new and what is similar to previous war sites, we suggest that these two areas reflect a geopolitics of evidence gathering, highlighting its global-local intimacies. Both these areas are well positioned to foster new research on the (geo)legal nature of war crimes in political geography and beyond.
KW  - Intimate geopolitics
KW  - Ukraine
KW  - Legal geography
KW  - War crime
KW  - Evidence
Y1  - 2024
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/83471
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-834715
SN  - 2772-9990
N1  - Version of Record: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-838272)
VL  - 2024
IS  - Journal Pre-proof, 100008
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -