Decolonisation and the Law School

Dreaming Beyond Aesthetic Changes to the Curriculum
Herausgeber: Adebisi, Foluke I

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores strategies, approaches, tools, challenges, and reflections that animate the conversation around decolonisation in UK law schools.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781032771182
• ISBN-10: 1032771186
• Artikelnr.: 70546940

Autorenporträt

Foluke I. Adebisi is Professor of law at the University of Bristol Law School. Her scholarship on decolonisation and legal pedagogy responds to the question of what it means to be human.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Decolonisation and the law school: presences, absences,
silences... and hope 1. Trust, courage and silence: carving out decolonial
spaces in higher education through student-staff partnerships 2. "Law",
"order", "justice", "crime": disrupting key concepts in criminology through
the study of colonial history 3. Creating the law school as a meeting place
for epistemologies: decolonising the teaching of jurisprudence and human
rights 4. Researching colonialism and colonial legacies from a legal
perspective 5. "Why is it my problem if they don't take part?" The
(non)role of white academics in decolonising the law school 6. Decolonising
the master's house: how Black Feminist epistemologies can be and are used
in decolonial strategy 7. The ignored heritage of Western law: the
historical and contemporary role of Islamic law in shaping law schools