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    Anti-Colonial Legalities: Paradigms, Tactics & Strategy


    Reynolds, John (2015) Anti-Colonial Legalities: Paradigms, Tactics & Strategy. Palestine Yearbook of International Law, 18. pp. 8-52. ISSN 1386-1972

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    Abstract

    The tasks of this paper are (i) to explore the “alternative” public international law paradigms put forward by some as preferable to the “traditional” laws of occupation and armed conflict in understanding and challenging the situation in Palestine from an international law perspective, and (ii) to offer some thoughts on questions of tactics and strategy if law is to be deployed in pursuit of Palestinian liberation. Settler colonialism is the core ideological project from which the derivatives of forced population transfer and apartheid flow. These three overlapping frameworks are knitted together by common underpinning logics of settlement and racialisation. This was the case historically in European colonial empires, as it was under apartheid in southern Africa, and as it remains in Palestine today. The paper therefore begins by situating these conceptual frameworks in historical and legal context. It then considers law as a skeletal structure which can be fleshed out with hegemonic or counter-hegemonic muscle, before turning to discuss the perils and possibilities of employing legal tactics in pursuit of transformative anti-colonial strategy.

    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: international law; palestine; Israel; colonialism;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Law
    Item ID: 8932
    Depositing User: John Reynolds
    Date Deposited: 25 Oct 2017 14:45
    Journal or Publication Title: Palestine Yearbook of International Law
    Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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