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Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Setting the Scene of the Law School and the Discipline
Law: the state of play in a field of promise and disappointment
Diversity is not pluriversity in the university
Beyond diversity: liberation, justice, and the promise of decolonisation
What could it mean to 'decolonise the Law School'?
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1 Theories of Decolonisation
Or, to Break All the Tables and Create the World Necessary for Us All to Survive
Introduction
How did we get here? A brief voyage of colonial discovery
Decolonisation or how we get out of this here: an analogy on the colonial table
Decolonisation I: Give us an equal seat at the table/we want our own table/you made a table out of our lives
Decolonisation II: Give us back our table/that is not even a table, genius!
Decolonisation III: What if that was not a table?
Decolonisation IV: What can be said from the table?
Decolonisation X, or things that do not fit on the table
Summarising Decolonisations I-X
Defining decolonisation for higher education in the Global North: some guiding principles
2 What Have You Done, Where Have You Been, Euro-Modern Legal Academe? Uncovering the Bones of Law's Colonial Ontology
Introduction
The lawful production of epistemic injustice, or the legal academe from which colonialism emerges
Euro-modern law's three-part journey immiserating the wretched of the earth
Euro-modern law's colonial ontology beyond and within the nation state
Euro-modern legal journeys in enslavement
Euro-modern law ventures into new colonial lands
Euro-modern legal knowledge beyond and on the other side of colonialism
3 Defining the Law's Subject I: (Un)Making the Wretched of the Earth
Introduction
Constructing law's human: the continuously continuing colonial conditions of (non)life
Reproducing/maintaining law's human: the unintelligibility of testamentary life to legal knowledge
The particularity of past and present anti-Blackness to understanding this present darkness
Other ways of being: towards testamentary life within legal knowledge
4 Defining the Law's Subject II: Law and Creating the Sacrifice Zones of Colonialism
Introduction
Commodifying the land on which we try to survive
The reproduction of commodification: space, place, and where
law's human belongs
Thinking legal spaces anew: is there place for legal knowledge in a borderless world?
5 Defining the Law's Subject III: Law, Time, and Colonialism's Slow Violence
Introduction
Colonial times making time colonial: the continual re-making of the colonial ever-present
The time always returns: forever in the waters of difficulty
Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility
Copyright information
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Setting the Scene of the Law School and the Discipline
Law: the state of play in a field of promise and disappointment
Diversity is not pluriversity in the university
Beyond diversity: liberation, justice, and the promise of decolonisation
What could it mean to 'decolonise the Law School'?
Outline
1 Theories of Decolonisation
Or, to Break All the Tables and Create the World Necessary for Us All to Survive
Introduction
How did we get here? A brief voyage of colonial discovery
Decolonisation or how we get out of this here: an analogy on the colonial table
Decolonisation I: Give us an equal seat at the table/we want our own table/you made a table out of our lives
Decolonisation II: Give us back our table/that is not even a table, genius!
Decolonisation III: What if that was not a table?
Decolonisation IV: What can be said from the table?
Decolonisation X, or things that do not fit on the table
Summarising Decolonisations I-X
Defining decolonisation for higher education in the Global North: some guiding principles
2 What Have You Done, Where Have You Been, Euro-Modern Legal Academe? Uncovering the Bones of Law's Colonial Ontology
Introduction
The lawful production of epistemic injustice, or the legal academe from which colonialism emerges
Euro-modern law's three-part journey immiserating the wretched of the earth
Euro-modern law's colonial ontology beyond and within the nation state
Euro-modern legal journeys in enslavement
Euro-modern law ventures into new colonial lands
Euro-modern legal knowledge beyond and on the other side of colonialism
3 Defining the Law's Subject I: (Un)Making the Wretched of the Earth
Introduction
Constructing law's human: the continuously continuing colonial conditions of (non)life
Reproducing/maintaining law's human: the unintelligibility of testamentary life to legal knowledge
The particularity of past and present anti-Blackness to understanding this present darkness
Other ways of being: towards testamentary life within legal knowledge
4 Defining the Law's Subject II: Law and Creating the Sacrifice Zones of Colonialism
Introduction
Commodifying the land on which we try to survive
The reproduction of commodification: space, place, and where
law's human belongs
Thinking legal spaces anew: is there place for legal knowledge in a borderless world?
5 Defining the Law's Subject III: Law, Time, and Colonialism's Slow Violence
Introduction
Colonial times making time colonial: the continual re-making of the colonial ever-present
The time always returns: forever in the waters of difficulty