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Abstract This paper contextualises and decontextualises the meaning of criminalisation. Pondering 25 years of the Erik Castrén Institute and the International Criminal Court, this paper provides not only a critical lens through which we must necessarily view the celebrations that accompany criminalisation at the icc today for the genocide in Gaza, but also a trepidation with which we must view the past that afforded the foundations upon which institutions like the icc and World Bank enjoy legitimacy. The larger picture, of convicts building empire, criminalisation being instrumentalised to cannibalise non-western sovereignty, and non-western sovereigns subjugating their own populations to fulfil their capitalist agendas could be viewed as coming full circle. Or else, they are all perhaps stories that form a part of the same totality, in which resistance to the order and a complicity in its creation end up being subsumed to serve the accumulation of capital.
Parvathi Menon (Tue,) studied this question.