What is it about?
This paper argues that the relationship between law, time, temporality, race and racism is vital to understanding the continuous reproduction of racial injustice and the making permanent of colonial logics. Using Octavia Butler’s Kindred as an example, this paper argues that Black/African Science Fiction can help us to reframe legal knowledge's relationship with time
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Why is it important?
To interrupt the continuation of racism as a structure facet of the world, it is important that we are creative in the ways we choose to work against racism.
Perspectives
As legal scholars faced with the contradiction between law's justice and the continuation or racial justice, I suggest that Black Africa Sci Fi like Afrofuturism gives us room to ask better questions of the discipline and ourselves. By questioning the fixity of time, we can ask ourselves what we can do now to become the law teachers and researchers we would like to be in the future.
Dr Foluke Ifejola Adebisi
University of Bristol
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This page is a summary of: Black/African Science Fiction and the Quest for Racial Justice through Legal Knowledge: How Can We Unsettle Euro-modern Time and Temporality in Our Teaching?, Law Technology and Humans, November 2022, Queensland University of Technology,
DOI: 10.5204/lthj.2507.
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