Spatial Justice and Diaspora: Law, Chaos and
Postcoloniality Critical Legal Conference,
University of Sussex, Brighton UK 4th-6th September 2014
DEADLINE JUNE 30TH 2014
This stream will engage with critical theories of
spatiality in relation to issues of postcoloniality,
globalisation, diaspora, and migration. It will interrogate scales of legality
across multiple jurisdictions and consider the development of an
aesthetics of resistance in diasporic communities. In an increasingly interconnected, globalised world, there
is a growing demand for
a recognition of
processes of adaptation and resistance in the form of legal pluralism as a historical contingency. This
demand varies in its articulation, from decolonial refraction to the
empirical negotiation of diasporic laws and the call for a
redefinition of the nation-state as the irrevocable centre . This stream will ask critical questions about the
constantly metamorphosing definition of the limit of the border
in the face of disorientating diaspora, the migration of law , and complex relations of belonging. It invites papers that address the
need to theorise tempo-spatiality in law and consider how this
embryonic chaos may be filtered through transjurisdictional practice in all
its many forms and guises.
We are looking for papers from a wide variety of
disciplines on (but not limited to) the following themes:
- diaspora communities and law
- postcolonial identity and resistance
- legal pluralism
- globalisation and concepts of belonging
- critical migration lawinformation
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