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UNSILENCED #3: The Law as Instrument of Oppression.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imperialism.
- Postcolonialism.
- Racism.
- Violence.
- Colonialism.
- Genre:
- Interviews
- Podcasts
- Interviews.
- Podcasts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Errant Journal, 2024.
- Summary:
- "UNSILENCED is a series of conversations by Errant Podcast with artists, scholars, and activists that have been cancelled, disinvited or de-platformed in Germany over their show of support for Palestine. The goal of these conversations is not to talk about the cancelling per se (although we really need to talk about that too!), but rather about the activities that were cancelled. With this approach we hope to discuss and show the relation between the work these artists and scholars do and the struggle for Palestinian liberation. This third episode in this series is with scholar in international law Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan. In the summer of 2023, he was invited by Decolonize Berlin to submit a chapter to an edited book. The text, titled 'Germany and the law as an instrument of oppression - law and legal practices in (post)colonial times,' was rejected by the organization because of the link it made between the genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama people in Namibia, the Holocaust, and Germany's current role in the genocide of Palestinian people. In relation to this we talk about how 'Western powers use international law to legitimize and stabilize the universal and to universalize their own interests.' We also address the failures of humanitarian law, the role of the ICC and ICJ, and the possibility of a 'law from below' where international law is serving the people, and not the people serving international law."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Standard Copyright.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 01/24/2026).
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