Third World Approaches to International Law (eBook, PDF)

On Praxis and the Intellectual
Redaktion: Natarajan, Usha; Xavier, Sujith; Bhatia, Amar; Reynolds, John

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Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the themes of praxis and the role of international lawyers as intellectuals and political actors engaging with questions of justice for Third World peoples. It includes chapters from some of the pioneering Third World jurists who have led this field since the time of decolonization, as well as prominent emerging scholars in the field. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351704984
• Artikelnr.: 57252545

Autorenporträt

Amar Bhatia is an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada. His research focuses on transnational migration in a settler-colonial context and the intersection of immigration law, Aboriginal law, treaty relations, and Indigenous legal traditions. Usha Natarajan is Assistant Professor of International Law and Associate Director of the Centre for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Her research is multidisciplinary, utilising Third World and postcolonial approaches to international law to provide an interrelated understanding of the relationship between international law and issues of development, migration, environment, and conflict. John Reynolds is Lecturer in International Law at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His research focuses on the operation of international law in states of emergency and in contexts of conflict, crisis, and coloniality. Sujith Xavier joined the University of Windsor Faculty of Law in January of 2014 as an Assistant Professor. His interests span domestic and international legal theory, international law, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), as well as the intersections of law and society with an emphasis on race, colonialism and imperialism, gender, and sexuality.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Foreword: Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) special
issue 2. Introduction: TWAIL - on praxis and the intellectual 3. The Third
World intellectual in praxis: confrontation, participation, or operation
behind enemy lines? 4. On fighting for global justice: the role of a Third
World international lawyer 5. Regulation of armed conflict: critical
comparativism 6. Decolonisation, dignity and development aid: a judicial
education experience in Palestine 7. The conjunctural in international law:
the revolutionary struggle against semi-peripheral sovereignty in Iraq 8.
Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the idea of Muslim Marxism: empire, Third
World(s) and praxis 9. International lawyers in the aftermath of disasters:
inheriting from Radhabinod Pal and Upendra Baxi 10. The South of Western
constitutionalism: a map ahead of a journey 11. Disrupting civility:
amateur intellectuals, international lawyers and TWAIL as praxis 12.
Migration, development and security within racialised global capitalism:
refusing the balance game