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Simone Leigh (Hardcover)
Simone Leigh; Edited by Eva Respini; Foreword by Jill Medvedow; Text written by Vanessa Agard-Jones, Rizvana Bradley, …
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Despite the fact that the appropriation of land and resources of
the so-called New World necessarily involved the dispossession and
exploitation (and, sometimes, genocide) of the original inhabitants
of colonized nations, it was not until the late twentieth century
that Indigenous Peoples attained any meaningful degree of legal
recognition in both national and international spheres. Until then
Indigenous Peoples (also known as 'First Nations' and 'First
Peoples') were routinely denied any form of juridical identity.
Research in and around Indigenous Peoples and the Law is now very
wide-ranging and flourishes as never before. But much of the
relevant literature remains inaccessible or is highly specialized
and compartmentalized, so that it is difficult for many of those
who are interested in the subject to obtain an informed, balanced,
and comprehensive overview. This new four-volume collection meets
the need for an authoritative anthology to make sense of the
subject's vast and dispersed literature and the continuing
explosion in research output. Drawing on a wide variety of
materials from a broad range of disciplines and theoretical
approaches, the collection gathers canonical and cutting-edge major
works in a 'one-stop' resource to enable users to understand how
the law Indigenous Peoples encounter has been transformed from an
oppressive, rights-denying system to a site of contestation and for
the articulation of claims. The collection includes a full index
and is supplemented by introductions to each volume, newly written
by the editors, which place the gathered materials in their
historical and intellectual context. Indigenous Peoples and the Law
is an essential reference work which will be valued as a vital
resource by students, scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners.
Predatory lending of subprime mortgages targeting the most
economically vulnerable minority communities helped trigger the
current global financial crisis. This special issue of the journal
American Quarterly explores the ways in which "subprime" becomes a
racial signifier in the current debate about the causes and fixes
for a capitalism itself in crisis. It signifies both the
accumulated dispossession of racial exclusion in the twenty-first
century gilded age in the United States and Global North more
broadly, as well as the imperial ambitions of three decades of
U.S.-led neoliberal rule over the Global South. Essays are divided
into sections: debt, discipline, and empire; the pathologies of
debt; and security, space, and resistance in the post-racial urban
setting. Focusing on race and empire, that is, on racial and global
subjugation, the contributors expose the ethical-political
underpinnings of the current global financial crisis. Contributors
include: Radhika Balakrishnan Jordan T. Camp Paula Chakravartty
Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas Sophie Ellen Fung Daniel J. Hammel James Heintz
Bosco Ho Zachary Liebowitz Tayyab Mahmud John D. Marquez Pierson
Nettling C. S. Ponder Sarita Echavez See Shawn Shimpach Denise
Ferreira da Silva Catherine R. Squires Michael J. Watts Elvin Wyly
In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva
asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence
perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no
ethical outrage?
Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of difference
such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion,
Silva presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial
knowledge and power produce global space. Looking at the United
States and Brazil, she argues that modern subjects are formed in
philosophical accounts that presume two ontological
moments--"historicity" and "globality"--which are refigured in the
concepts of the nation and the racial, respectively. By displacing
historicity's ontological prerogative, Silva proposes that the
notion of racial difference governs the present global power
configuration because it institutes moral regions not covered by
the leading post-Enlightenment ethical ideals--namely, universality
and self-determination.
By introducing a view of the racial as the signifier of "globalit"
"y, ""Toward a Global Idea of Race" provides a new basis for the
investigation of past and present modern social processes and
contexts of subjection.
Denise Ferreira da Silva is associate professor of ethnic studies
at University of California, San Diego.
Postcolonialism and the Law provides a long overdue delineation of
the field of enquiry that engages with the legal programmes,
structures, and procedures which have sustained Euro-North American
supremacy on the international political stage for the past fifty
years or so. Focusing on the relationship between law and the
racial and colonial mechanisms of subjugation at work in the global
present, the contributions assembled in this new four-volume
collection from Routledge's Critical Concepts in Law series attend
to juridical apparatuses as they operate in concert with economic
and ethical frameworks, procedures, and architectures. Instead of
approaching law as a self-sufficient instrument of power, the
gathered major works expose the complex deployment and operation of
legal instruments and how they-along with economic mechanisms and
ethical programmes-participate in the constitution of the political
space shared by both former colonial powers and colonies. With a
full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly
written by the editors, which places the collected material in its
historical and intellectual context, Postcolonialism and the Law is
an essential work of reference. The collection will be particularly
useful as a database allowing scattered and often fugitive material
to be easily located. It will also be welcomed as a crucial tool
permitting rapid access to less familiar-and sometimes
overlooked-texts. For postcolonial theorists and lawyers, as well
as those working in cognate disciplines, such as Critical Legal
Studies, Ethics, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, and
Human Rights, it is certain to be valued as a vital one-stop
research and pedagogic resource.
Students committed to environmental protection and the preservation
of their rights and those of future generations set an example: It
is not just the present that makes clear demands of us, but the
future does, as well. This applies not only to ecological
responsibility, but also to a serious culture of remembrance, a
responsible approach to colonial history and diaspora, and
political conscientiousness. The first Sharjah Architecture
Triennial 2019 is dedicated to these topics. Hatje Cantz published
an anthology in the year of the event, which compiles the results
and consequences for future architects. The second volume now
focuses on a more general look at the challenges that a future
worth living in will bring. The transdisciplinary contributions
include articles by renowned scientists, as well as artistic works
on the topic.
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