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Periodizations are political acts. They produce temporalities that do not necessarily coincide with chronology. TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) scholars have generally endorsed the division of TWAIL into two generations. Whereas TWAIL
George R.B. Galindo
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PLACING TWAIL SCHOLARSHIP AND PRAXIS
Editors' introduction to Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) special issue of the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice (Vol. 33:3, 2016) - Conspiring in Cairo & Canada: Placing TWAIL Scholarship and Praxis.
Sujith Xavier +3 more
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Understanding TWAIL: A Critical Approach to International Law
Mainstream approaches to international law do not provide the necessary point of view to expose the colonial and postcolonial origins of the discipline and to deconstruct the modern international legal regime based on “sovereign inequality.” Even looking
Şahin Eray Kırdım
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Introduction: TWAIL - on praxis and the intellectual [PDF]
AbstractThis Special Issue emerges from the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) Cairo Conference in 2015 and addresses the conference theme, ‘On Praxis and the Intellectual’, by focusing on different aspects of the intellectual as a political actor.
Usha Natarajan +2 more
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Postcolonial Approaches to International Human Rights Law: The TWAIL Case
In the first two decades of the 2000s, TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) attracted considerable attention in academia with its critical approach to international law.
Elif Çağla Yıldız
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This article presents, from perspectives of confronting the multiple forms of colonialism, the diagnosis that capitalism and colonialism also structure inequalities in the way knowledge is elaborated and, specifically, how internatio-nal law is taught ...
Bruno Lopes Ninomiya +1 more
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The Peculiar Double-Consciousness of TWAIL [PDF]
Shunning the Eurocentrism that colours much mainstream scholarship, TWAIL has centred in international legal scholarship the views of peoples historically marginalised in the imperial-colonial process. In a single generation, its interventions have shifted perceptions of international law across the academy, forcing scholars to account for the ...
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The Role of Fiqh al-Siyar in International Law-Making: Escaping the Lethargy
International law has developed since its pre-20th century consent-based positivistic framework to ‘international law-making’ where the role of state sovereignty is seen to have eroded.
Fajri Matahati Muhammadin +1 more
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Decolonizing and Reconstructing the Legal Discourse on the Nile River as sine qua non
The Nile River is not only the longest river but is also endowed with fertile natural resources. Because of geo-political and economic advantages, Britain and its colonial allies had strategically occupied riparian states along the Nile River.
Yusuf Ali Mohammed
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International Law, Western States, Third World States,and the Principles of Independent Economic Self-determination [PDF]
In practice, international law appears to have worked against those principles that accord the people of a State the right to economic self-determination, such as the principle of free choice in economic development.
IKEJIAKU, Brian
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