Law as Resistance - Modernism, Imperialism, Legalism (Hardcover, New Ed)

The scandal of this collection lies not just in its equating law and resistance but also in its consequent revision of those critical, realist, social, and even positivist theories that would constitute law in its dependence on sovereign or society, on some surpassing power, or on the state of the judge's digestion. There is as well a further provocation offered by the collection in that the most marginalized of resistances through law are found to be the most destabilizing of standard paradigms of legal authority. Instances of such seeming marginality explored here include the resistances of colonized and indigenous peoples and resistance pursued through international law. What this 'marginal' focus also reveals is the constituent connection between modernism, imperialism and that legalism produced by the ready reduction of law in terms of sovereign, society and such. In all, the collection makes a radical contribution to social, political and postcolonial theories of law.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Collected Essays in Law
Release date:	July 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Peter Fitzpatrick
Dimensions:	228 x 157 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	354
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-2685-5
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law
LSN:	0-7546-2685-7
Barcode:	9780754626855

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