Laws of the postcolonial
Laws of the postcolonial
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后殖民法律
DOI：
10.3998/mpub.14470
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发表时间：
1999
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通讯作者：
P. Fitzpatrick
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作者：
Eve Darian;P. Fitzpatrick
尽管后殖民主义现在是批判性地探讨西方与“他者”关系的主要模式，尽管法律一直处于这种关系的前沿，但法律与后殖民主义之间的彻底接触并没有得到追求，部分原因是，这不仅会严重破坏法律和发展的持久正统观念，而且会破坏围绕法律的全球化和国际人权的新达成的共识。权利话语。这些文章在批判性地分析当前关于西方法律的国际影响力和西方法律观念的共识时，使用了后殖民主义的思想，这是一个新的突破。在对西方法律的看法中，法律的普遍力量与其脆弱性之间存在着持久的差异。这些文章中有许多生动地描述了法律在大规模的西方运动中的巨大影响力，这场运动使地球仪安定和不安。这些叙述指出，西方以其自我创造的方式构成和确认了西方，并以此方式包容和改造其他民族和其他法律的制度。其他的文章涉及西方“内部”的情况，这些情况显示了西方的身份是如何被创造、维持的，也是如何在不断提到那些相反的“他者”时受到挑战的，而这些“他者”是由一个强大的法律塑造和改变的。这一挑战不仅仅来自那些“其他人”的抵抗--这些抵抗深刻地破坏了西方及其法律，揭示了他们在自己自我宪法的看似自信的核心上的分裂。贡献者包括安东尼安吉、罗兰多·盖特、艾伦·诺里、黛安·奥托、保罗·帕萨凡特、珍妮·珀迪、科林·佩林、安丽丝·莱尔斯、罗山·德·席尔瓦和约翰·斯特劳森，Eve Darian-Smith是圣巴巴拉的加州大学人类学助理教授。彼得菲茨帕特里克是法律教授，女王玛丽和韦斯特菲尔德学院，伦敦大学。
Although postcolonialism is now the main mode in which the West's relation to the "other" is critically explored, and although law has been at the forefront of that very relation, a thorough engagement between law and postcolonialism has not been pursued, in part because this would drastically disrupt not just the persistent orthodoxy of law and development but also the newly settled consensus around legal globalization and international human rights discourse. These essays break new ground in using the ideas of postcolonialism in a critical analysis of the current consensus on the international influence of Western law and on Western ideas of law in general.In perceptions of Western law there is an enduring disparity between law's pervasive power and its fragility. Many of these essays provide graphic accounts of law's tremendous shaping power in that massive occidental movement which settled and unsettled the globe. These accounts point to the West's encompassing and transforming of other peoples and other legal systems in ways which constitute and confirm the West in its own self-creation. Other essays deal with situations "within" the West which show how its identity is created, sustained, and also challenged in a constant reference to those contrary "others" which a powerful law has shaped and transformed. This challenge comes not least from the resistance of those "others" --resistances that profoundly disrupt the West and its law, revealing them as fractured at the seemingly confident core of their own self-constitution.Contributors include Antony Anghie, Rolando Gaete, Alan Norrie, Dianne Otto, Paul Passavant, Jeannine Perdy, Colin Perrin, Annelise Riles, Roshan de Silva, and John Strawson, in addition to the editors.Eve Darian-Smith is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara. Peter Fitzpatrick is Professor of Law, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.