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Empire, emergency, and international law /

This book analyses the states of emergency exposing the intersections between colonial law, international law, imperialism and racial discrimination.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reynolds, John, 1981-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Epigraph ; Table of contents ; Foreword ; Prologue ; Part I Traditions of the Oppressed ; 1 Emergency, Colonialism and Third World Approaches to International Law ; On the Concept of History ; On Perpetual Emergency.
  • On the Spectre of Colonialism On Theory and Method: Third World Approaches ; 2 Racialisation and States of Emergency ; The Spectre of Race ; Legality, Exception and Inclusion/Exclusion ; Emergency and Racial Sovereignty ; The Racialisation of International Law.
  • 3 Emergency Doctrine: A Colonial Account Martial Law: 'Province and Purpose' ; Legislative Normalisation: Codifying Emergency Powers ; The Political Economy of Emergency ; Emergency as Governance ; Part II Empire's Law.
  • 4 Emergency Derogations and the International Human Rights Project The Post-war Context ; From European Empire to European Convention on Human Rights ; Universalising the State of Emergency ; The European Convention in the Colonies ; 5 Kenya: A 'Purely Political' State of Emergency.
  • Rehearsing the Emergency Performing the Emergency ; Mystifying Mau Mau: The Racialised Construction of a Diseased Mind ; Purely Political International Law ; 6 The Margin of Appreciation Doctrine: Colonial Origins ; The Cyprus Case ; The Troubles ; The Belmarsh Case.