Kamari Maxine Clarke

Mapping Yorùbá Networks was written by Kamari Maxine Clarke and published by the Duke University Press in July 2004.[12] It is an ethnography of Òyótúnjí, an establishment of the ancient Yoruba Empire that was founded in South Carolina in 1970.[12] Mapping Yorùbá Networks draws from fieldwork conducted in the United States and Nigeria and follows “heritage travelers” who voyage from Òyótúnjí to Nigeria and back.[12] The ethnography chronicles the physical, social and economic landscape of Òyótúnjí and explores the dynamics of homeland identification, the roots heritage market and expressions of transnational politics.[12]

Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa was written by Kamari Maxine Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press in May 2009.[13] Clarke explores how the language of international justice is created through the embodiment of values of human rights in rule of law movements.[13] This book presents that justice is legitimized and made real, in specific socio-cultural practices, through micropractices, such as “citation references to treaty documents”.[13]

Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness was edited by Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas.[14] The anthology was published by the Duke University Press in July 2006 and contains essay contributions by Deborah A. Thomas, Lee D. Baker, Robert Lee Adams Jr., Jacqueline N. Brown, Tina M. Campt, Naomi Pabst, Kesha Fikes, Isar Godreau, John L. Jackson, Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Grant Farred, Ariana Hernandez-Reguant, Oneka LaBennet, Raymond Codrington, Len Sawyer and Kamari Maxine Clarke.[14] The collection of essays examines how globalization relates to changing conceptualizations and expressions of blackness. In studying race as an analytic category and connecting it to ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationality and religion, Globalization and Race discusses how global transformations have led to the creation of new class economies and ideologies about belonging and constructions of social difference.[14]

Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge was edited by Rebecca Hardin and Kamari Maxine Clarke and published by The University of Wisconsin Press in August 2012.[15] A team of anthropologists consisting of Mary Catherine Bateson, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Rebecca Hardin, Csilla Kalocsai, Macia Inhorn, George Marcus, J. Lorand Matory, Sidney Mintz and Melissa Remis, explore the changes they have witnessed in ethnography, as a method and as an intellectual approach.[15] The authors demonstrate how ethnography is relevant in understanding and bringing about social change while also transforming the practitioners themselves.[15]

Africa and the ICC: Perceptions of Justice was edited by Kamari M. Clarke, Abel S. Knottnerus and Efje de Volder.[16] It was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016.[16] This book contains contributions about the relationship between Africa and the ICC from the perspectives of scholars of various disciplines, such as, international law, cultural anthropology, media studies, political science and African history.[16]

The African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights in Context is edited by Charles C. Jalloh, Kamari M. Clarke, and Vincent O. Nmehielle.[17] It is scheduled to be published in April 2019 by Cambridge University Press.[17] The book is a series of analyses about the Malabo Protocol, which would create the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights. This book explores how this court could interact with larger contexts of international law.[17]

In 2014, Kamari M. Clarke received the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for the Engaged Anthropology Grant that provided funding for her to travel with her project collaborators to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, home of the African Union Commission.[18] to share "her research on the International Criminal Court and international law in African contexts” [18] The Wenner Gren Foundation is a private foundation that funds international anthropological research.[18] The project for which Kamari M. Clarke was awarded the grant, is titled the African Geographies of Justice Engaged Anthropology project, which centered on an international criminal workshop African Geographies of Justice: African Court and Heads of State Immunities.[18] This workshop took place from November 19th to 21st, 2014 at the Hilton Hotel in Addis Ababa.[18] The purpose of the workshop was to explore questions surrounding the controversial African Court and heads of state immunities provision of the Malabo Protocol[18]

Leadership Enterprise for African Development is a research and capacity building institute that leveraged research and expertise from the world’s leading institutions, such as Harvard and Yale Universities, to strengthen knowledge, leadership and governance capacity in the African public, business, and civil society sectors.[19]

The African Court Research Initiative (ACRI) is a collaborative endeavor that explores the academic and functional implications of the creation of an African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights.[20] ACRI studies and publishes reports on how this new court should be implemented and how it could work in relation to other mechanisms of international justice.[20] It is a joint initiative by Kamari Maxine Clarke, Charles C. Jalloh, a professor at the Florida International University College of Law, and Vincent O. Nmehielle, the legal Counsel and Director of Legal Affairs in the African Union Commission.[20]