What is it about?
This chapter focuses on how the society [space, place, and all they contain] around law’s human has been and is being constituted by influences of colonial logics and praxes. This examination takes reference from the use of race as an abstractive technology in the making of property from humanity.
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Why is it important?
This chapter argues that racial capitalism, in particular, and Euro-modern law in general are both entangled in the legal ontologies of, not just human-body negation, but also contingent appropriation/redefinition of land and space. This process ties the constitution of law’s human to the creation of a universalised Euro-modern legal ontology of land as a means of capital accumulation as well as human veneration reliant on this.
Perspectives
Here I argue that one of the most significant outcomes of the legitimate property-fication of labour, land, and nature through Euro-modern legal epistemologies, is the complicity of legal technologies in continuing the colonial conditions of life that extend beyond the escalating disappearance of testamentary life into the looming endangerment of the planet.
Dr Foluke Ifejola Adebisi
University of Bristol
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This page is a summary of: Defining the Law’s Subject II: Law and Creating the Sacrifice Zones of Colonialism, March 2023, Policy Press,
DOI: 10.51952/9781529219401.ch004.
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