What is it about?
Through a historical examination of legislation, case law and policy, this chapter examines the nature of Euro-modern law and how this nature enabled and continues to enable legal knowledge’s production, reproduction, and maintenance of colonial logics and praxes.
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Why is it important?
This chapter confronts law’s historical and contemporary use in service of the colonial, as an invitation to the readers to view law as an uninterrupted continuum across space-time, which carries within it certain instances and ways of world-making. It argues that to enact decolonisation within and with legal knowledge is to pay closer attention to the concepts and methods of colonial thought that survive the colonial process unnoticed. Consequently, this chapter is a general examination of how Euro-modern legal knowledge is, historically and ontologically, implicated in producing ongoing colonial conditions and modalities of life.
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In this chapter, I use the analogy of law as a voyage on which humanity has embarked.
Dr Foluke Ifejola Adebisi
University of Bristol
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This page is a summary of: What Have You Done, Where Have You Been, Euro-Modern Legal Academe? Uncovering the Bones of Law’s Colonial Ontology, March 2023, Policy Press,
DOI: 10.51952/9781529219401.ch002.
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