Modern state law excludes populations, peoples, and social groups
by making them invisible, irrelevant, or dangerous. In this book,
Boaventura de Sousa Santos offers a radical critique of the law and
develops an innovative paradigm of socio-legal studies which is
based on the historical experience of the Global South. He traces
the history of modern law as an abyssal law, or a kind of law that
is theoretically invisible yet implements profound exclusions in
practice. This abyssal line has been the key procedure used by
modern modes of domination – capitalism, colonialism, and
patriarchy – to divide people into two groups, the metropolitan
and the colonial, or the fully human and the sub-human. Crucially,
de Sousa Santos rejects the decadent pessimism that claims that we
are living through 'the end of history'. Instead, this book offers
practical, hopeful alternatives to social exclusion and modern
legal domination, aiming to make post-abyssal legal utopias a
reality.
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