TWAIL coordinates

Luis Eslava

Chapter 2 in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), 2025, pp 10-22 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) is a dynamic, intentionally open-ended and decentralised network of international law scholars who think about and with the Third World. ‘Third World’ is still used in TWAIL interventions as a reminder of those entrenched power imbalances that continue to exist at the heart of international law, and the power struggles that have accompanied its history until the present moment. This chapter outlines some of the broad features – the main coordinates – that have come to characterise TWAIL's approach to the study of international law and the world it has produced. TWAIL invites scholars, practitioners and activists to feel–think (sentir–pensar) in and about the world. This is to embrace a feeling–thinking sensibility that grounds itself in the world with its diversities and inequalities, with an eye always on building – on feeling–thinking–doing – a more just planet for all.

Keywords: TWAIL coordinates; Sensibility; Feel–Thinking–Doing; International law; History; Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789901511
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