Archiving Sovereignty : Law, History, Violence /

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Archiving Sovereignty shows how courts use fiction in their treatment of sovereign violence. Law's complicity with imperial and neocolonial practices occurs when courts inscribe and repeat the fabulous tales that provide an alibi for archaic sovereign acts that persist in the present. The Unite...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Motha, Stewart J. (Stewart John), 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sovereignty > Social aspects.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Post-apartheid era.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
LAW > Reference.
LAW > Practical Guides.
LAW > Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
LAW > General Practice.
LAW > Essays.
Ère post-apartheid > Afrique du Sud.
Justice transitionnelle > Aspect social > Afrique du Sud.
Souverainete > Aspect social.
Sociologie juridique.
Post-apartheid era > South Africa.
Transitional justice > Social aspects > South Africa.
Aboriginal Australians > Legal status, laws, etc. > Social aspects.
Refugees > Legal status, laws, etc. > Social aspects > Australia.
Chagossians > Legal status, laws, etc. > Social aspects.
South Africa.
British Indian Ocean Territory.
Australia.
Chagos (British Indian Ocean Territory) > Statut international > Aspect social.
British Indian Ocean Territory > International status > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
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Sumario:Archiving Sovereignty shows how courts use fiction in their treatment of sovereign violence. Law's complicity with imperial and neocolonial practices occurs when courts inscribe and repeat the fabulous tales that provide an alibi for archaic sovereign acts that persist in the present. The United Kingdom's depopulation of islands in the Indian Ocean to serve the United States' neoimperial interests, Australia's exile and abandonment of refugees on remote islands, the failure to acknowledge genocidal acts or colonial dispossession, and the memorial work of the South African Constitution after apartheid are all sustained by historical fictions. This history-work of law constitutes an archive where sovereign violence is mediated, dissimulated, and sustained. Stewart Motha extends the concept of the "archive," as site of origin and source of authority, to signifying what law does in preserving and disavowing the past at the same time. Sovereignty is often cast as a limit-concept, constituent force, determining the boundary of law. Archiving Sovereignty reverses this to explain how judicial pronouncements inscribe and sustain extravagant claims to exceptionality and sovereign solitude. This wide-ranging, critical work distinguishes between myths that sustain neocolonial orders and fictions that generate new forms of political and ethical life.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages).
ISBN:9780472123988

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