What is it about?
Law does not just regulate people; it also shapes how societies think about time, history and the future. Colonial legal systems portrayed some peoples as "backward" or outside modern time, which helped justify slavery, colonisation and dispossession. Although colonial rule formally ended in many places, these underlying ways of thinking still influence the present and the laws that shape our experiences of the present.
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Why is it important?
The chapter suggests that Black/African science fiction (including Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism) is valuable because it allows people to imagine futures that are not limited by today's assumptions. It can challenge the idea that current social and legal arrangements are inevitable and help us think differently about justice, race, history and human possibilities.
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It is important to appreciate Black/African science fiction as a tool for imagining alternative legal and social futures.
Professor Foluke Ifejola Adebisi
University of Bristol
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This page is a summary of: Black/African science fiction and imaginative resistance, September 2024, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003412267-6.
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