Witchcraft beliefs and practices in asylum adjudication. Impressions from a legal- anthropological collaboration in the framework of a judicial training
2024 • In Marie-Claire Foblets; Maria Sapignoli; Brian Donahoe (Eds.) Anthropological Expertise in Legal Practice: Collaboration, Consequences, and ‘Para-Ethnography’
[en] This chapter contributes to the debates on the role of anthropological expertise in legal practice from the point of view of one lawyer and one anthropologist by focusing on how judges approach fear of withcraft beliefs and practices in asylum decisions. It does so in two ways: firstly, by exploring a common range of issues in withcraft-related-violence claims from various jurisdictions, with particular attention to the (non-)use of anthropological expertise. Secondly, by making an argument for spaces of knowledge exchange between judges and anthropologists outside the framework of the actual decision-making in specific cases which is characterized by adversarial relations. To this end we provide insights from our experience of a judicial training as an alternative space for knowledge exchange and joint reflection.
Disciplines :
Anthropology
Author, co-author :
Bianchini, Katia
Andreetta, Sophie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut de recherche en Sciences Sociales (IRSS) > IRSS: Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle
Larissa Vetters
Language :
English
Title :
Witchcraft beliefs and practices in asylum adjudication. Impressions from a legal- anthropological collaboration in the framework of a judicial training
Publication date :
2024
Main work title :
Anthropological Expertise in Legal Practice: Collaboration, Consequences, and ‘Para-Ethnography’
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