Myth and concealment at colonial law's foundations. Issue 1 (March 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Myth and concealment at colonial law's foundations. Issue 1 (March 2021)
- Main Title:
- Myth and concealment at colonial law's foundations
- Authors:
- Pavlich, George
- Editors:
- Sugarman, David
Paliwala, Abdul - Abstract:
- Abstract: This paper provides an engagement with, and highlights the depth of, Peter Fitzpatrick's careful examination of myths that grounded modern law and its colonial instances. That grounding is shown to be premised on a concealment of basic contradictions behind fictions of a unified law, even though it only appears through negations of others. Intersecting patterns of marginalisation are shown to be constitutive of modern and colonial law, so it is not surprising that current protests should address a basic exclusionary racism that Fitzpatrick's work signalled. It concludes with some reflections on what his work might mean for three current debates.
- Is Part Of:
- International journal of law in context. Volume 17:Issue 1(2021)
- Journal:
- International journal of law in context
- Issue:
- Volume 17:Issue 1(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 17, Issue 1 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0017-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 28
- Page End:
- 31
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03
- Subjects:
- myth and law, -- modern colonial law, -- decolonising law, -- Peter Fitzpatrick, -- legal pluralism
340.11505 - Journal URLs:
- http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=IJC ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1744552321000161 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1744-5523
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- Legaldeposit
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