International Law and Posthuman Theory

ISBN-13: 9781032658025 / Twarda / 2024 / 312 str.

Opis

Assembling a series of voices from across the field, this book demonstrates how posthuman theory can be employed to better understand and tackle some of the challenges faced by contemporary international law.

Recenzje

“How do ‘we’ move beyond the Eurocentric, hetrosexist and humanistic binds of international law? As much critical scholarship has demonstrated, it is not through more law. This wide-ranging collection, written by some of the most exciting thinkers of international law and posthumanism, provides readers with ways of thinking otherwise – ways out of the binds. This is critique as hope.” Maria Elander, La Trobe University, Australia

"The chapters of this book offer, each in their specific manner and through different angles, multi-directional answers, provide examples and illustrations of what is at stake. They share one, empowering belief, which I take as axiomatic, namely that posthuman legal thought aims to critique the humanistic, Eurocentric, normative and heterosexist core of legal theory and practice, in order to make it more inclusive and less discriminatory. In so doing, they make room for the non-human, more-than-human entities, agents and subjects of our posthuman times. The intertwined critiques of humanism and anthropocentrism serve to illuminate contemporary patterns of power, subjugation, injustice and exploitation. And to offer ways out." Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Spis treści

Preface Rosi Braidotti Introduction Emily Jones and Matilda Arvidsson Part 1: Methodological and Theoretical Frontiers 1. Posthuman feminism as a theoretical and methodological approach to international law Matilda Arvidsson 2. Flat Ontology and Differentiation: In Defence of Bennett’s Vital Materialism, and Some Thoughts towards Decolonial New Materialisms for International Law Anna Grear 3. Aesthetics, New Materialism and Legal Matter: The ‘art’ of Anglo-American colonialism Delaney Mitchell 4. The Common Heritage of Kin-Kind Emily Jones, Cristian van Eijk, and Gina Heathcote Part 2: Political Economy, History and Colonialism 5. A Monument to E. G. Wakefield: New and Historical Materialist Dialogues for a Posthuman International Law Jessie Hohmann and Christine Schwöbel-Patel 6. Neither National nor International: A Posthumanist Retelling of Tax Sovereignty Hedvig Lärka 7. After Homo Narrans: Botany, International Law, and Senegambia in Early Racial Capitalist Worldmaking Vanja Hamzić Part 3: The Environment and the Nonhuman 8. Terraqueous Feminisms and the International Law of the Sea Gina Heathcote 9. Becoming Common – Ecological Resistance, Refusal, Reparation Marie Petersmann 10. The War on Drugs as the War on the Non-Human Kojo Koram and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 11. Supplanting Anthropocentric Legalities: Can the Rule of Law Tolerate Intensive Animal Agriculture? Maneesha Deckha 12. Will human rights save the ‘anthropos’ from the ‘Anthropocene’? Limitations of human rights strategies in responding to the climate crisis Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp

O autorze

Matilda Arvidsson is Associate Professor in International Law and Assistant Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Emily Jones is a NUAcT Fellow based in Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University, UK.