| Description |
xx, 226 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Law, justice, and power |
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Law, justice, and power.
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| Contents |
1. The Fiction of the State of Nature in Real Time: The Social Contract, International Human Rights and the Refugee / Jill Stauffer -- 2. National Identity and Refugee Law / Sarah Kyambi -- 3. Refugees, Nations, Laws and the Territorialization of Violence / Patricia Tuitt -- 4. On Being, Nation and Citizenship in Sri Lanka: Going Beyond the Ontological Hermeneutic of the Buddhist Cosmos / Roshan De Silva -- 5. Making People Illegal / Catherine Dauvergne -- 6. Constitutional (U) Topology: the (Dis) Appearance of Ireland / Patrick Hanafin -- 7. Terminal Legality? Human Rights and Critical Being / Peter Fitzpatrick -- 8. The Paradox of Human Rights / Paul A. Passavant -- 9. Global Formations: IMF Conditionality and the South as Legal Subject / Sundhya Pahuja -- 10. Ejecting an Inside: An Essay on the Politics of the Contemporary American Immigration State / Kunal Parker |
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11. Mapping Territories of Legality: An Exploratory Cartography of an Emerging Female Global Subject / Denise Ferreira da Silva |
| Summary |
"Critical Beings" explores the role of such people as the refugee, the immigrant and the subjugated minority, together with their attendant legal regimes, in the persistent but ever unsettled processes of national/global formation. Challenging accounts that would ascribe to them a transitory or incidental place in the establishment of the modern juridical order, the collection argues that these excluded or marginalized people are coming to form a new entity - the global legal subject - comparable in ways to other non-state actors operating in the international legal system. Most distinctively, the collection shows how the global legal subject is integral to and constituent of the processes of state and global formation yet also disruptive of them. It maintains that these global subjects stand as possible precursors to new political ways of being |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Human rights.
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Nation-state.
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Marginality, Social.
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Critical theory.
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| Author |
Fitzpatrick, Peter, 1941-
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Tuitt, Patricia, 1961-
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| LC no. |
2002043971 |
| ISBN |
0754622886 alkaline paper |
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