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.
It explores the ways in which the foundations of law are entangled in colonial thought and in its [re]production of ideas of commodification of bodies and space-time. Thus, it is an exploration of the ways in which we can use theories and praxes of decolonisation to produce legal knowledge for flourishing futures.
By:
Folúkẹ́ Adébísí (University of Bristol)
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Abridged edition
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529219371
ISBN 10: 152921937X
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 15 March 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction: Setting the Scene of the Law School and the Discipline 1. Theories of Decolonisation or to Break All the Tables and Create the World Necessary for Us All to Survive 2. What Have You Done, Where Have You Been, Euro-Modern Legal Academe? Uncovering the Bones of Law’s Colonial Ontology 3. Defining the Law’s Subject I: (Un)Making the Wretched of the Earth 4. Defining the Law’s Subject II: Law and Creating the Sacrifice Zones of Colonialism 5. Defining the Law’s Subject III: Law, Time, and Colonialism’s Slow Violence 6. The Law School: Colonial Ground Zero – A Colonial Convergence in the Human and Space–Time Conclusion: Another University Is Necessary to Take Us towards Pluriversal Worlds
Folúkẹ́ Adébísí is Associate Professor at the University of Bristol.
