Empire, emergency and international law / John Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, John, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergencies--Law and legislation.

Emergencies.

International law and human rights.

Imperialism.

War and emergency powers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

What does it mean to say we live in a permanent state of emergency? What are the juridical, political and social underpinnings of that framing? Has international law played a role in producing or challenging the paradigm of normalised emergency? How should we understand the relationship between imperialism, race and emergency legal regimes? In addressing such questions, this book situates emergency doctrine in historical context. It illustrates some of the particular colonial lineages that have shaped the state of emergency, and emphasises that contemporary formations of emergency governance are often better understood not as new or exceptional, but as part of an ongoing historical constellation of racialised emergency politics. The book highlights the connections between emergency law and violence, and encourages alternative approaches to security discourse. It will appeal to scholars and students of international law, colonial history, postcolonialism and human rights, as well as policymakers and social justice advocates.

Contents:

Emergency, colonialism, and third world approaches to international law

Racialisation and states of emergency

Emergency doctrine : a colonial account

Emergency derogations and the international human rights project

Kenya : a "purely political" state of emergency

The margin of appreciation doctrine : colonial origins

Palestine : a "scattered, shattered space of exception"?

Australia : racialised emergency intervention

International law, resistance, and "real" states of emergency.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Aug 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-78041-4

1-316-78179-8

1-316-78202-6

1-316-78225-5

1-316-78317-0

1-316-77909-2

1-316-78248-4

9781316779095 (electronic book)