Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility

Folúkẹ́ Adébísí

doi:10.46692/9781529219401

The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global disparities and injustices. This essential book provides an examination of the meanings of decolonisation and explores how this examination can inform teaching, researching, and practising of law.

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Reflections on Power and Possibility

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iii

Acknowledgements
pp iv-iv

Preface
pp v-vi

Introduction: Setting the Scene of the Law School and the Discipline
pp 1-13

1 - Theories of Decolonisation; or, to Break All the Tables and Create the World Necessary for Us All to Survive
pp 14-37

2 - What Have You Done, Where Have You Been, Euro-Modern Legal Academe? Uncovering the Bones of Law’s Colonial Ontology
pp 38-64

3 - Defining the Law’s Subject I: (Un)Making the Wretched of the Earth
pp 65-91

4 - Defining the Law’s Subject II: Law and Creating the Sacrifice Zones of Colonialism
pp 92-107

5 - Defining the Law’s Subject III: Law, Time, and Colonialism’s Slow Violence
pp 108-127

6 - The Law School: Colonial Ground Zero – a Colonial Convergence in the Human and Space–Time
pp 128-147

Conclusion: Another University Is Necessary to Take Us towards Pluriversal Worlds
pp 148-157

References
pp 158-189

Cases Cited
pp 190-190

Index
pp 191-197

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