At the core of Struggles for the Human lies the struggle for human rights. Lara Montesinos Coleman dares ask the question that many a jaded critic has already relinquished:
Does a radical potential remain in human rights, a system that has been widely acknowledged in its liberal Eurocentric legal form to have done little to nothing for [...]
Human rights rise to geopolitical significance in the 1980s and 90s, and since then we have seen important waves of Marxist, poststructuralist, postcolonial and feminist
critiques. At particular moments we see fresh texts setting new agendas, creating new directions in which people can then begin to push against extant forms of knowledge. [...]
I agree with Ntina Tzouvala when she says that the book “resists easy categorisation” and, thus, an “easy review process.” Perhaps one reason for this difficulty both
of us encountered was because the book, “was never meant to be” (p. xxxi). As Oishik points, this was an attempt at creating a “bricolage” (p. [...]
In recent years, the relationship between intellectual property and capitalism has received growing interest from different disciplines, particularly economic history, law,
sociology, politics, and science and technology studies. This workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary scholarship which explores this relationship historically [...]
Extract from Roger Cotterrell’s ‘Afterword: Trust and Critique after Three Decades’ in Critical Trusts Law: Reading Roger Cotterrell, eds Nick Piška and Hayley Gibson,
available fair access from COUNTERPRESS. ‘Power, Property and the Law of Trusts: A Partial Agenda for Critical Legal Scholarship’ was written in the mid-1980s [...]
Macedonian, a native language in Northern Greece was banned, and persecuted by the Greek state, yet kept it’s memory in songs “without words.” In order to be able to
celebrate and play music in fairs, local musicians stopped singing, and instead focused on solely playing the music. [...]
It was a pleasure reading Oishik Sircar’s “Violent Modernities”, which is an excellent and essential read for anyone interested in a broader understanding of constitution,
law, rights, citizenship and the postcolonial state. Although the focus of the book is on India, many of the critique offered in this book may equally apply to other [...]
The Fred Gray Civil Rights Writing Competition is a new national writing competition honoring the extraordinary contributions of Fred Gray to the civil rights movement. Fred
Gray is a renowned civil rights attorney who played a pivotal role in numerous... [...]
The Fred Gray Civil Rights Writing Competition is a new national writing competition honoring the extraordinary contributions of Fred Gray to the civil rights movement. Fred
Gray is a renowned civil rights attorney who played a pivotal role in numerous... [...]
The Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent is pleased to announce its Annual Lecture, to be held on Tuesday 26 November at 6pm. This event is open to all and
no registration is required. Professor Costas Douzinas will be speaking on ‘States of Exception and Resistance’. The event will be held at the Wigoder Moot [...]
