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Lawyering Imperial Encounters

Negotiating Africa's Relationship with the World Economy

Sara Dezalay author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Publishing:31st Dec '24

£100.00

This title is due to be published on 31st December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Revisits the rush for Africa's 'green' minerals by documenting the interconnectedness between legal imperialism and financialization.

This book revisits the relationship between the African continent and global capitalism since the 19th century Scramble. It provides an unprecedented account of the correlation between the legacy of legal imperialism and British hegemony, and the expansion of finance and international law in the current rush for Africa's 'green' minerals.Lawyering Imperial Encounters revisits the relationship between the African continent and global capitalism since the 19th century Scramble. Focused on sites of imperial encounters – in London, Paris, Abidjan, Bujumbura, Kinshasa, Johannesburg or the Hague, it provides an unprecedented account of the correlation between the legacy of legal imperialism and British hegemony, and the uneven and unequal expansion of finance and global justice in the current rush for Africa's 'green' minerals. Tracking the role played by legal intermediaries to negotiate and justify Africa's practical and symbolic subaltern position in the global economy, it demonstrates the interconnectedness between political, legal and economic change in capitalism's cores and its so-called peripheries. Embracing the global turn in sociology, history and legal scholarship, it rubs against the functionalist account of global value chains as engines of development. It also constitutes a powerful postcolonial critique of law's double-bind - as both enabler and bulwark against domination.

ISBN: 9781009493369

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

276 pages