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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779191203321

Titolo

Decolonisation of legal knowledge / / editors, Amita Dhanda, Archana Parashar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi : , : Routledge, , 2009

ISBN

1-136-51772-3

1-280-66079-1

9786613637727

1-136-51773-1

0-203-15155-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DhandaAmita

ParasharArchana

Disciplina

340

Soggetti

Critical legal studies

Postcolonialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Decolonisation of Legal Knowledge; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Decolonisation of Knowledge: Whose Responsibility?; Chapter 1 Development and the Limits of State Politics: Rethinking Emancipatory Politics in Contemporary Africa; Chapter 2 The Successful Failing of Legal Theory; Chapter 3 Power and Responsibility: The Curse of Spider-Man; Chapter 4 International Laws and the Discontented: Westernisation, the Development and the Underdevelopment of International Laws; Chapter 5 The Female Diaspora: Interrogating the Female Trafficked Migrant

Chapter 6 Sexualised Economics: Divorce and the Division of Farming Property in AustraliaChapter 7 Responsibility for Legal Knowledge; Chapter 8 The Governance of Power: Taxing Choices; Chapter 9 The Ability to Respond: Responsibility of Regulatory Institutions; Chapter 10 The Power of One: The Law Teacher in the Academy; About the Editors; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Contributed papers presented at the Critical Legal Studies Conference held in September 2007, at Hyderabad, India.