Postcolonial studies

Vasuki Nesiah

Chapter 15 in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), 2025, pp 170-181 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: A tradition of postcolonial studies in the legal academy, TWAIL fuses radical schools of thought in law with that of socio-cultural analysis in other fields to study the colonial presence in structuring international legal arrangements and shaping the international legal imaginary. This chapter illustrates these interdisciplinary analytics with reference to cases from Nuremberg to Gaza and the dialectic between center and periphery and between slow violence and spectacular violence. It is an approach that studies the relationship between the distribution of material and epistemic resources in how the story of international law and legal history is plotted in the academic discipline of international law, as well as in the common sense of the profession. TWAIL analysis unsettles that which is attributed to postcolonial identity and political subjectivity, that which is periodized as the time of the postcolonial, and that which is mapped as the place of the postcolonial – all to contribute towards transforming the structural conditions of world order.

Keywords: Postcolonial; World-making; Historiography; Geography; Futurity; Distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789901511
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