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Keeping hold of justice : encounters between law and colonialism / Jennifer Balint, Julie Evans, Mark McMillan, Nesam McMillan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balint, Jennifer, author.
- Evans, Julie, 1952- author.
- McMillan, Mark David, 1969- author.
- McMillan, Nesam, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Law, meaning, and violence.
- Law, meaning, and violence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Justice, Administration of--Australia.
- Justice, Administration of.
- Law--Australia.
- Law.
- Decolonization--Australia.
- Decolonization.
- Transitional justice--Australia.
- Transitional justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Four of the Chief Investigators from the Minutes of Evidence project--which combines research, education, performance and public engagement to spark new ways of understanding structural inequalities in settler societies like Australia--closely consider law's complex relation to the structural injustices of colonialism. This interdisciplinary book brings together the insights and approaches of history, criminology, socio-legal studies and law to present a range of case studies of the encounter between law and colonialism. Through historical and contemporary case studies, it emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a structural injustice which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and continues to affect people's lives in the present. It charts the role of law in both enabling and sustaining colonial injustice and in recognizing and redressing it.
- Despite the enduring legacies and harms of colonialism, Keeping Hold of Justice contends that possibilities for structural justice can be found thorough collaborative methodologies and practices that actively bring together different disciplines, peoples, temporalities, laws and ways of knowing into dynamic relation. They reveal law not only as a source of colonial harm but also as a potential means of keeping hold of justice.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Encounters between Law and Colonialism : From Structural Injustice to Structural Justice
- Settler Societies : The Making of Legal Order in Australia
- Holding Law : Bringing Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Laws into Relation
- Crimes against Humanity : The Appreciability of Colonial Harm
- Transitional Justice and Settler Colonialism : Toward Structural Change
- Claiming the Record of Law : Reimagining Law as a Site of Justice
- Conclusion : Structural Justice : A Method of "Meeting Points"
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-201) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472126279
- 047212627X
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