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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adébísí, Folúké, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Study and teaching--Social aspects.

Law.

Decolonization--Philosophy.

Decolonization.

Law--Philosophy.

Critical legal studies.

Postcolonialism--Philosophy.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 197 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: 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

Conclusion: Another University Is Necessary to Take Us towards Pluriversal Worlds

References

Cases Cited

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jan 2024).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-189) and index.

ISBN:

9781529219418

1529219418

9781529219395

1529219396

9781529219401

152921940X

OCLC:

1373018080