What is it about?
This chapter argues that time and temporality are vital means for understanding the ongoing-ness of colonial logics and praxis and their persisting embeddedness in legal knowledge. In essence, the law helps racism to evolve and continue in ways that are often unnoticed at the time.
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Why is it important?
This permanence of accumulation and dispossession through colonialism and racism results partly from a reliance on linearity and mono-temporality within legal knowledge, which presupposes the inevitability of progress in ways which naturalise the continuing effects of colonialism. Such linearity and singularity obscure and invisibilise the ongoing abstractive and extractive violence enacted through erasure of othered bodies and continuations of colonial cartographies in sacrifice zones.
Perspectives
In this chapter, I am thinking through the ways that it is possible to enact effective decolonisation which requires an unsettling of time and colonial chronopolitics.
Dr Foluke Ifejola Adebisi
University of Bristol
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This page is a summary of: Defining the Law’s Subject III: Law, Time, and Colonialism’s Slow Violence, March 2023, Policy Press,
DOI: 10.51952/9781529219401.ch005.
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