Keeping Hold of Justice
Encounters between Law and Colonialism
Julie Evans author Jennifer Balint author Nesam McMillan author Mark David McMillan author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
Published:19th Feb '20
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Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and thereby continues to affect people’s lives in the present. It charts, in particular, the role of law in both enabling and sustaining colonial injustice and in recognizing and redressing it. In so doing, the book seeks to demonstrate the possibilities for structural justice that still exist despite the enduring legacies and harms of colonialism. It puts forward that these possibilities can be found through collaborative methodologies and practices, such as those informing this book, that actively bring together different disciplines, peoples, temporalities, laws and ways of knowing. They reveal law not only as a source of colonial harm but also as a potential means of keeping hold of justice.
Honorable Mention: Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia (LLHAA) 2021 Penny Pether Prize
* LLHAA Penny Pether PriISBN: 9780472131686
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218 pages