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The materiality of international law: violence, history and Joe Sacco’s The Great War

2017; Oxford University Press; Volume: 5; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/lril/lrx001

2050-6333

Luis Eslava,

Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics

Thinking through Joe Sacco’s The Great War (2013) and adopting a materialist approach to the international legal order and its history, this article re-maps both the temporal scope and the actual location of the violence endured in the First World War and calls attention to its ongoing everyday material manifestations.