Laws Of The Postcolonial
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Laws Of The Postcolonial
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Author : Eve Darian-Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1999
Laws Of The Postcolonial written by Eve Darian-Smith and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Essays reveal the central part played by law in constituting the West as the antithesis of various 'others'
Postcolonialism And The Law
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Author : Denise Ferreira da Silva
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Postcolonialism And The Law written by Denise Ferreira da Silva and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Erotic Justice
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Author : Ratna Kapur
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03-04
Erotic Justice written by Ratna Kapur and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-04 with Law categories.
The essays in Erotic Justice address the ways in which law has been implicated in contemporary debates dealing with sexuality, culture and `different' subjects - including women, sexual minorities, Muslims and the transnational migrant. Law is analyzed as a discursive terrain, where these different subjects are excluded or included in the postcolonial present on terms that are reminiscent of the colonial encounter and its treatment of difference. Bringing a postcolonial feminist legal analysis to her discussion, Kapur is relentless in her critiques on how colonial discourses, cultural essentialism, and victim rhetoric are reproduced in universal, liberal projects such as human rights and international law, as well as in the legal regulation of sexuality and culture in a postcolonial context. Drawing her examples from postcolonial India, Ratna Kapur demonstrates the theoretical and disruptive possibilities that the postcolonial subject brings to international law, human rights, and domestic law. In the process, challenges are offered to the political and theoretical constructions of the nation, sexuality, cultural authenticity, and women's subjectivity.
Postcolonial Politics And Personal Laws
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Author : Rina Verma Williams
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2006
Postcolonial Politics And Personal Laws written by Rina Verma Williams and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Civil law categories.
Placing the contemporary discussion on personal laws in India in historical perspective, this important book views the debate as a critical component of Indian democracy. Balancing the imperatives of multiculturalism, national integration, and gender justice, it affirms that there is a complex continuity between the terms of the debate in the postcolonial Indian state and its colonial counterpart.
Law And Disorder In The Postcolony
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Author : Jean Comaroff
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
Law And Disorder In The Postcolony written by Jean Comaroff and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Social Science categories.
Are postcolonies haunted more by criminal violence than other nation-states? The usual answer is yes. In Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, Jean and John Comaroff and a group of respected theorists show that the question is misplaced: that the predicament of postcolonies arises from their place in a world order dominated by new modes of governance, new sorts of empires, new species of wealth—an order that criminalizes poverty and race, entraps the “south” in relations of corruption, and displaces politics into the realms of the market, criminal economies, and the courts. As these essays make plain, however, there is another side to postcoloniality: while postcolonies live in states of endemic disorder, many of them fetishize the law, its ways and itsmeans. How is the coincidence of disorder with a fixation on legalities to be explained? Law and Disorder in the Postcolony addresses this question, entering into critical dialogue with such theorists as Benjamin, Agamben, and Bayart. In the process, it also demonstrates how postcolonies have become crucial sites for the production of contemporary theory, not least because they are harbingers of a global future under construction.
Making Law In Papua New Guinea
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Author : Bruce L. Ottley
language : en
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press LLC
Release Date : 2021
Making Law In Papua New Guinea written by Bruce L. Ottley and has been published by Carolina Academic Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Law categories.
"In the waning days of colonialism in Papua New Guinea, much of the rhetoric from local leaders pushing for self-determination focused on replacing the imposed colonial legal system with one that reflected local customs, understandings, relationships, and dispute settlement techniques-in other words, a "uniquely Melanesian jurisprudence." After independence in 1975, however, that aim faded or began to be seen as an impossible objective, and PNG is left with a largely Western legal system. In this book, the authors-who were all directly involved in law teaching, law reform, and judging during that period-explore the potent and enduring grip of colonialism on law and politics long after the colonial regime has been formally disbanded. Combining original historical and legal research, engagement with the scholarly literature of dependency theory and postcolonial studies, and personal observation, interviews, and experience, Making Law in Papua New Guinea offers compelling insights into the many reasons why postcolonial nations remain imprisoned in colonial laws, institutions, and attitudes"--
Minorities And The Making Of Postcolonial States In International Law
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Author : Mohammad Shahabuddin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-10
Minorities And The Making Of Postcolonial States In International Law written by Mohammad Shahabuddin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-10 with Law categories.
A critical analysis of how international law operates in the ideology of the postcolonial state to marginalise minority groups.
Routledge Handbook Of Law Race And The Postcolonial
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Author : Denise Ferreira da Silva
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-01-08
Routledge Handbook Of Law Race And The Postcolonial written by Denise Ferreira da Silva and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-08 with Ethics categories.
Routledge Handbook of Law, Race and the Postcolonial is a comprehensive and original reference work setting out contemporary issues and theoretical aspects relating to postcolonialism, race and the law. The contributions examine juridical apparatuses as they operate in concert with economic and ethical frameworks, procedures, and architectures. Instead of approaching law as a self-sufficient instrument of power, this volume exposes the complex terrain of deployment and operation of legal instruments and how they, along with economic mechanisms and ethical programmes, participate in the constitution of the political space shared by both former colonial powers and colonies. The volume features new, specially commissioned papers by a range of international and leading experts in the field. The chapters represent a range of texts that explore and critique the statements, narratives, and structures of the legal, economic, and moral texts and practices that characterize colonial and racial subjugation. With a comprehensive introduction written by the editors the handbook places the collected material in its historical context while tracing the trajectory of postcolonialism and the legal to its current critical and political engagements.
Language Choice In Postcolonial Law
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Author : Richard Powell
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-02-24
Language Choice In Postcolonial Law written by Richard Powell and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-24 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book discusses multilingual postcolonial common law, focusing on Malaysia’s efforts to shift the language of law from English to Malay, and weighing the pros and cons of planned language shift as a solution to language-based disadvantage before the law in jurisdictions where the majority of citizens lack proficiency in the traditional legal medium. Through analysis of legislation and policy documents, interviews with lawyers, law students and law lecturers, and observations of court proceedings and law lectures, the book reflects on what is entailed in changing the language of the law. It reviews the implications of societal bilingualism for postcolonial justice systems, and raises an important question for language planners to consider: if the language of the law is changed, what else about the law changes?
The Common Law In Two Voices
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Author : Kwai Hang Ng
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-21
The Common Law In Two Voices written by Kwai Hang Ng and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-21 with Law categories.
Hong Kong is one of the very few places in the world where the common law can be practiced in a language other than English. Introduced into the courtroom over a decade ago, Cantonese has significantly altered the everyday working of the common law in China's most Westernized city. In The Common Law in Two Voices, Ng explores how English and Cantonese respectively reinforce and undermine the practice of legal formalism. This first-ever ethnographic study of Hong Kong's unique legal system in the midst of social and political transition, this book provides important insights into the social nature of language and the work of institutions. Ng contends that the dilemma of legal bilingualism in Hong Kong is emblematic of the inherent tensions of postcolonial Hong Kong. Through the legal dramas presented in the book, readers will get a fresh look at the former British colony that is now searching for its identity within a powerful China.