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Decolonisation and legal knowledge : reflections on power and possibility / Folúkẹ́ Adébísí.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, ©2023.Description: vi, 197 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781529219371
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.1 23
LOC classification:
  • K3375 .A34 2023
Contents:
Setting the Scene of the Law School and the Discipline -- Theories of Decolonisation, or, To Break All the Tables and Create the World Necessary for Us All to Survive -- What Have You Done, Where Have You Been, Euro-Modern Legal Academe? Uncovering the Bones of Law's Colonial Ontology -- Defining the Law's Subject I: (Un)Making the Wretched of the Earth -- Defining the Law's Subject II: Law and Creating the Sacrifice Zones of Colonialism -- Defining the Law's Subject III: Law, Time, and Colonialism's Slow Violence -- The Law School: Colonial Ground Zero : a Colonial Convergence in the Human and Space-Time -- Another University Is Necessary to Take Us towards Pluriversal Worlds.
Summary: "This 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"--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting the Scene of the Law School and the Discipline -- Theories of Decolonisation, or, To Break All the Tables and Create the World Necessary for Us All to Survive -- What Have You Done, Where Have You Been, Euro-Modern Legal Academe? Uncovering the Bones of Law's Colonial Ontology -- Defining the Law's Subject I: (Un)Making the Wretched of the Earth -- Defining the Law's Subject II: Law and Creating the Sacrifice Zones of Colonialism -- Defining the Law's Subject III: Law, Time, and Colonialism's Slow Violence -- The Law School: Colonial Ground Zero : a Colonial Convergence in the Human and Space-Time -- Another University Is Necessary to Take Us towards Pluriversal Worlds.

"This 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"--Publisher's description.

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