Working Paper BEYOND GENEALOGIES: EXPERTISE AND RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE IN LEGAL CASES INVOLVING AFRICAN DIASPORIC PUBLICS New technologies now make it possible to render visible – literally – what has long been hidden in dominant institutional approaches to mass atrocity crimes:  the social, political, and historical contexts in which these crimes occur. By focusing on specific incidents, […]

As a result of a related and initial collaborative exploration with Anna Agathangelou, this research explores a new dimension of digital technologies and their roles in creating a ‘human rights technology revolution’ (Kelly Matheson, WITNESS). Yet how are these technologies—such as satellite tracking, crowd  sourcing, and social media—transforming socio-legal worlds? Are witnesses using social media […]

  Religion, Diaspora and the Limits of the Law Over the past two decades, I have been engaged in analyzing a range of contemporary challenges in transnational black occult religions that are sometimes at odds with emergent rights endowed agendas of state and international institutions. The manuscript from which is evolving from that research is […]