- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 International Law’s Cabinet of Curiosities
- 2 The Lives of Objects
- 3 Things to Make and Do
- 4 Framing Objects of International Law
- 5 The Making of International Lawyers
- 1 African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- 2 AIDS
- 3 Armed Drone
- 4 Axum Stele
- 5 Barcelona Traction Share
- 6 Boots (on the Ground)
- 7 Border Check-Point, the Moldovan Republic of Transnistria
- 8 Breton Road Signs
- 9 Chicotte
- 10 Data: The Given
- 11 <i>Déchiqueteuse</i> (Paper-Shredder)
- 12 Gavel
- 13 ‘Good Urban Citizen’
- 14 Glyphosate
- 15 Insulae Moluccae: Map of the Spice Islands, 1594
- 16 ‘Jolly Roger’ (Pirate Flag)
- 17 Manganese Nodules
- 18 Mosul Four and Iran Six
- 19 NM 68226 84912; TQ 30052 80597
- 20 One Tonne of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (1tCO<sub>2</sub>e)
- 21 Opium
- 22 Paintings of International Law
- 23 Passport
- 24 Peace Sign: La Comunidad de Paz de San José de Apartadó
- 25 Postcard from the ICTY
- 26 Purse Seine Net
- 27 Railway Clocks
- 28 Refugee Chains
- 29 Russian Flag at the North Pole
- 30 Screen
- 31 Ships’ Ballast
- 32 Somali Pirate Skiff
- 33 Sovereign Marks
- 34 Stained Glass Windows, the Great Hall of Justice of the Peace Palace
- 35 Sugar
- 36 Treaty Canoe
- 37 Trees
- 38 USAID Rice—Haiti
- 39 Western Sahara Boundary Marker
- 40 Whale
- Index
Things to Make and Do
Things to Make and Do
- Chapter:
- (p.47) 3 Things to Make and Do
- Source:
- International Law's Objects
- Author(s):
Fleur Johns
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
So often reactive and responsive in its own self-understanding, the discipline of international law appears in this book as agentive, creative, and pivotal. Scholars and practitioners of international law turn out, in its pages, to be makers and purveyors of objects that the discipline can, in varying ways and degrees, call its own. The world and its objects have been, and might yet otherwise be, of international law’s making. This chapter reflects on what kind of making this might entail and what it might mean, in this context, to write of an object juridically. It tackles these questions by exploring six modes of making and doing ongoing in the book, including modes of grappling with object loss (drawing from Freud), and how these variably elucidate the role of objects, and subject–object relations, in sustaining international law as a discipline.
Keywords: making, doing, subject–object relations, object loss, Freud
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 International Law’s Cabinet of Curiosities
- 2 The Lives of Objects
- 3 Things to Make and Do
- 4 Framing Objects of International Law
- 5 The Making of International Lawyers
- 1 African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- 2 AIDS
- 3 Armed Drone
- 4 Axum Stele
- 5 Barcelona Traction Share
- 6 Boots (on the Ground)
- 7 Border Check-Point, the Moldovan Republic of Transnistria
- 8 Breton Road Signs
- 9 Chicotte
- 10 Data: The Given
- 11 <i>Déchiqueteuse</i> (Paper-Shredder)
- 12 Gavel
- 13 ‘Good Urban Citizen’
- 14 Glyphosate
- 15 Insulae Moluccae: Map of the Spice Islands, 1594
- 16 ‘Jolly Roger’ (Pirate Flag)
- 17 Manganese Nodules
- 18 Mosul Four and Iran Six
- 19 NM 68226 84912; TQ 30052 80597
- 20 One Tonne of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (1tCO<sub>2</sub>e)
- 21 Opium
- 22 Paintings of International Law
- 23 Passport
- 24 Peace Sign: La Comunidad de Paz de San José de Apartadó
- 25 Postcard from the ICTY
- 26 Purse Seine Net
- 27 Railway Clocks
- 28 Refugee Chains
- 29 Russian Flag at the North Pole
- 30 Screen
- 31 Ships’ Ballast
- 32 Somali Pirate Skiff
- 33 Sovereign Marks
- 34 Stained Glass Windows, the Great Hall of Justice of the Peace Palace
- 35 Sugar
- 36 Treaty Canoe
- 37 Trees
- 38 USAID Rice—Haiti
- 39 Western Sahara Boundary Marker
- 40 Whale
- Index
