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1 online resource (vi, 197 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Front Cover -- Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Setting the Scene of the Law School and the Discipline -- Law: the state of play in a field of promise and disappointment -- Diversity is not pluriversity in the university -- Beyond diversity: liberation, justice, and the promise of decolonisation -- What could it mean to 'decolonise the Law School'? -- Outline -- 1 Theories of Decolonisation |
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Or, to Break All the Tables and Create the World Necessary for Us All to Survive -- Introduction -- How did we get here? A brief voyage of colonial discovery -- Decolonisation or how we get out of this here: an analogy on the colonial table -- Decolonisation I: Give us an equal seat at the table/we want our own table/you made a table out of our lives -- Decolonisation II: Give us back our table/that is not even a table, genius! -- Decolonisation III: What if that was not a table? -- Decolonisation IV: What can be said from the table? -- Decolonisation X, or things that do not fit on the table |
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Summarising Decolonisations I-X -- Defining decolonisation for higher education in the Global North: some guiding principles -- 2 What Have You Done, Where Have You Been, Euro-Modern Legal Academe? Uncovering the Bones of Law's Colonial Ontology -- Introduction -- The lawful production of epistemic injustice, or the legal academe from which colonialism emerges -- Euro-modern law's three-part journey immiserating the wretched of the earth -- Euro-modern law's colonial ontology beyond and within the nation state -- Euro-modern legal journeys in enslavement |
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Euro-modern law ventures into new colonial lands -- Euro-modern legal knowledge beyond and on the other side of colonialism -- 3 Defining the Law's Subject I: (Un)Making the Wretched of the Earth -- Introduction -- Constructing law's human: the continuously continuing colonial conditions of (non)life -- Reproducing/maintaining law's human: the unintelligibility of testamentary life to legal knowledge -- The particularity of past and present anti-Blackness to understanding this present darkness -- Other ways of being: towards testamentary life within legal knowledge |
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4 Defining the Law's Subject II: Law and Creating the Sacrifice Zones of Colonialism -- Introduction -- Commodifying the land on which we try to survive -- The reproduction of commodification: space, place, and where -- law's human belongs -- Thinking legal spaces anew: is there place for legal knowledge in a borderless world? -- 5 Defining the Law's Subject III: Law, Time, and Colonialism's Slow Violence -- Introduction -- Colonial times making time colonial: the continual re-making of the colonial ever-present -- The time always returns: forever in the waters of difficulty |
| Summary |
The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global disparities and injustices. This essential book provides an examination of the meanings of decolonisation and explores how this examination can inform teaching, researching, and practising of law |
| Notes |
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 27th, 2023) |
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Decolonization -- Philosophy
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Critical legal studies.
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LAW / General.
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Critical legal studies
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Internet resources.
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Electronic book
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Project Muse. distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781529219401 |
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152921940X |
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9781529219395 |
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1529219396 |
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