Nigel EltringhamEmeritus Reader (Anthropology)
Selected publications
Article
Eltringham, Nigel (2017) ‘The judgement is not made now; the judgement will be made in the future’: ‘politically motivated’ defence lawyers and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda”s ‘historical record’. Humanity. ISSN 2151-4364
Eltringham, Nigel (2015) Rescuing (cosmopolitan) locals at the International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda. Allegra: A Virtual Lab of Legal Anthropology [weblog article, 21 January, 2015].
Eltringham, Nigel (2014) A legacy deferred?: The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda at 20 years. E-International Relations [online article, 29 April 2014]. ISSN 2053-8626
Eltringham, Nigel (2014) ‘When we walk out, what was it all about?’: Views on new beginnings from within the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Development and Change, 45 (3). pp. 543-564. ISSN 0012-155X
Eltringham, Nigel (2013) 'Illuminating the broader context': anthropological and historical knowledge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19 (2). pp. 338-355. ISSN 1359-0987
Eltringham, Nigel (2012) Spectators to the spectacle of law: the formation of a ‘validating public’ at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Ethnos, 77 (3). pp. 425-445. ISSN 0014-1844
Eltringham, Nigel (2009) Introduction: Identity, Justice and "Reconciliation" in Contemporary Rwanda. Journal of Genocide Research, 11 (1). pp. 5-10. ISSN 1462-3528
Eltringham, Nigel (2009) "We are not a Truth Commission": fragmented narratives and the historical record at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Journal of Genocide Research, 11 (1). pp. 55-79. ISSN 1462-3528
Eltringham, Nigel (2009) Identity, Justice and "Reconciliation" in Contemporary Rwanda. Journal of Genocide Research, 1 (11). pp. 5-10. ISSN 1462-3528
Eltringham, Nigel (2008) Besieged history? An Evaluation of Shooting Dogs. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26 (4). pp. 740-746. ISSN 0236-7758
Eltringham, Nigel (2008) "A War Crimes Community?": The Legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Beyond Jurisprudence. New England Journal of International and Comparative Law, 14 (2). pp. 309-318. ISSN 1936-279X
Eltringham, Nigel (2006) 'Invaders who have stolen the country': The Hamitic Hypothesis, Race and the Rwandan Genocide. Social Identities, 12 (4). pp. 425-446. ISSN 1350-4630
Book
Eltringham, Nigel (2019) Genocide never sleeps: living law at the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda. Cambridge Studies in Law and Society . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781108485593
Eltringham, Nigel (2004) Accounting for Horror: Post-Genocide Debates in Rwanda. Pluto Press, London, UK. ISBN 9780745320007
Book Section
Eltringham, Nigel (2017) ‘Nordics' and 'Hamites': Joseph Deniker and the rise (and fall) of scientific racism. In: Rupnow, Dirk and Morris-Reich, Amos (eds.) The Concept of Race in the Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 251-272. ISBN 3319499521
Eltringham, Nigel (2014) Display, concealment and ‘culture’: the disposal of bodies in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In: Dreyfus, Jean-Marc and Anstett, Élisabeth (eds.) Human remains and mass violence: methodological approaches. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9780719096501
Eltringham, Nigel (2014) ‘When we walk out; what was it all about?’: Views on “new beginnings” from within The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. In: Anders, Gerhard and Zenker, Olaf (eds.) Transition and justice: negotiating the terms of new beginnings in Africa. Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 153-174. ISBN 9781118944776
Eltringham, Nigel (2014) Bodies of evidence: remembering the Rwandan genocide at Murambi. In: Eltringham, Nigel and Maclean, Pam (eds.) Remembering genocide. Remembering the modern world . Routledge, London, pp. 200-219. ISBN 9780415660112
Eltringham, Nigel (2013) Introduction: Cinema/chimera? the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film. In: Eltringham, Nigel (ed.) Framing Africa: portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema. Berghahn Books, Oxford. ISBN 9781782380733
Eltringham, Nigel (2013) Showing what cannot be imagined: 'Shooting dogs' and 'Hotel Rwanda'. In: Eltringham, Nigel (ed.) Framing Africa: portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema. Berghahn books, Oxford. ISBN 9781782380733
Eltringham, Nigel (2012) Exhibition, dissimulation et « culture ». Le traitement des corps dans le génocide rwandais. In: Anstett, Élisabeth and Dreyfus, Jean-Marc (eds.) Cadavres impensables, cadavres impensés. Approches méthodologiques du traitement des corps dans les violences de masse et les génocides. Éditions Petra, Paris. ISBN 9782847430608
Eltringham, Nigel (2011) The Past is Elsewhere: The Paradoxes of Proscribing Ethnicity in Post-Genocide Rwanda. In: Straus, Scott and Waldorf, Lars (eds.) Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence. University of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin, USA, pp. 269-282. ISBN 9780299282646
Eltringham, Nigel (2010) Judging the "Crime of Crimes": Continuity and Improvisation at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. In: Hinton, Alexander Laban (ed.) Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence. Rutgers University Press, pp. 206-226. ISBN 9780813550695
Eltringham, Nigel (2008) Rwanda. In: Stearns, PN (ed.) Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195176322
Eltringham, Nigel (2006) Debating the Rwandan Genocide. In: Kaarsholm, Preben (ed.) Violence, Political Culture and Development in Africa. James Currey, Oxford, pp. 66-91. ISBN 9780852558942
Eltringham, Nigel (2003) The Blind Men and the Elephant: the Challenge of Representing the Rwandan Genocide. In: Caplan, Pat (ed.) The Ethics of Anthropology:debates and dilemmas. Routledge, pp. 96-112. ISBN 0415296439
Eltringham, Nigel and Van Hoyweghen, Saskia (2000) Power and Identity in Post-Genocide Rwanda. In: Doom, Ruddy and Gorus, Jjan (eds.) Politics of Identity and Economics of Conflict in the Great Lakes Region. VUB Press. ISBN 9054872497
Eltringham, Nigel (2000) The Institutional Aspect of the Rwandan Church. In: Goyvaerts, D L (ed.) Conflict and Ethnicity in Central Africa. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pp. 225-250. ISBN 9784872977653
Edited Book
Eltringham, Nigel and Maclean, Pam, eds. (2014) Remembering genocide. Remembering the Modern World . Routledge, London, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9780415660112
Eltringham, Nigel and Mclean, Pam, eds. (2013) Remembering genocide. Remembering the modern world . Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415660112
Eltringham, Nigel, ed. (2013) Framing Africa: portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema. Berghahn on film . Berghahn, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-78238-073-3
Video
Eltringham, Nigel (2009) Review of "My Neighbour, My Enemy". [Video]