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International Law and Posthuman Theory

International Law and Posthuman Theory

Author: Matilda Arvidsson; Emily Jones
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032044040
Published In: January 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Assembling a series of voices from across the field, this book demonstrates how posthuman theory can be employed to better understand and tackle some of the challenges faced by contemporary international law.

With the vast environmental devastation being caused by climate change, the increasing use of artificial intelligence by international legal actors, and the need for international law to face up to its colonial past, international law needs to change. But in regulating and preserving a stable global order in which states act as its main subjects, the traditional sources of international law – international legal statutes, customary international law, historical precedents and general principles of law – create a framework that slows down its capacity to act on contemporary challenges, and to imagine futures yet to come. In response, this collection maintains that posthuman theory can be used to better address the challenges faced by contemporary international law. Covering a wide array of contemporary topics – including environmental law, the law of the sea, colonialism, human rights, conflict, and the impact of science and technology – it is the first book to bring new and emerging research on posthuman theory and international law together into one volume.

This book’s posthuman engagement with central international legal debates, prefaced by the leading scholar in the field of posthuman theory, provides a perfect resource for students and scholars in international law, as well as critical and socio-legal theorists, and others with interests in posthuman thought, technology, colonialism and ecology.

Preface by Rosi Braidotti

Introduction by Emily Jones and Matilda Arvidsson

Part 1: Methodological and Theoretical Frontiers

1. Posthuman feminism as a theoretical and methodological approach to international law

Matilda Arvidsson

2. Flat Ontology and Differentiation: In Defence of Bennett’s Vital Materialism, and Some Thoughts towards Decolonial New Materialisms for International Law

Anna Grear

3. Aesthetics, New Materialism and Legal Matter: The ‘art’ of Anglo-American colonialism

Delaney Mitchell

4. The Common Heritage of Kin-Kind

Emily Jones, Cristian van Eijk, and Gina Heathcote

Part 2: Political Economy, History and Colonialism

5. A Monument to E. G. Wakefield: New and Historical Materialist Dialogues for a Posthuman International Law

Jessie Hohmann and Christine Schwöbel-Patel

6. Neither National nor International: A Posthumanist Retelling of Tax Sovereignty

Hedvig Lärka

7. After Homo Narrans: Botany, International Law, and Senegambia in Early Racial Capitalist Worldmaking

Vanja Hamzić