What is it about?
We argue that legal academics must take the lead of historic and contemporary fighters for justice to let our teaching and research demonstrate how this present necropolitical world and order, with its geopolitical disparities, emerges from making racialized populations increasingly vulnerable to death.
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Why is it important?
Legal academics have a vital role to play in the building of new worlds of justice.
Perspectives
Quite soon after the COVID-19 pandemic reached the UK, its disproportionate impact on Black and other people of colour in our communities and among NHS staff became apparent. We watched the viscerally arresting pictures of the first NHS deaths displaying Black and Brown faces on our news screens. We waited desperately for answers and solutions in the subsequent official reports with the banal ministerial claims that the ‘virus does not discriminate’ ringing in our ears. However, we knew, as Omar Khan, the former Director of the UK’s leading race think tank, the Runnymede Trust, was quick to remind those of us that needed reminding: ‘racism is a matter of life and death’, which the pandemic has merely served cruelly to expose and exacerbate. ‘Racism is the real pandemic.’
Dr Foluke Ifejola Adebisi
University of Bristol
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This page is a summary of: Racism as Legal Pandemic: Thoughts on Critical Legal Pedagogies, July 2021, Policy Press,
DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781529218916.003.0006.
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