ABSTRACT
How do practices of international criminal justice represent victims of atrocity – if and when representation is understood as a practice of subject formation? How does it contribute to our understanding of the constitution of ‘victim’, for and in international criminal justice? This chapter examines the figuration of victims in two trials as a way to destabilise a certain canon on ‘victims’ in international criminal law. The first example, from the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, demonstrates how the identity of the victim may shift over time, while the second example, from the Eichmann trial at Jerusalem, demonstrates how subject formation is not simply a power imposed on a person but how subjectivity is negotiated and can be resisted.
