From Necropolitics to Piety: TWAIL and the “Other” Subject of Human Rights
Abstract
I]n the constitution of that Other of Europe, great care was taken to obliterate the textual ingredients with which such a subject could cathect, could occupy (invest?) its itinerary-not only by ideological and scientific production, but also by the institution of the law : : :.This is not to describe "the way things really were" or to privilege the narrative of history as imperialism as the best version of history.It is, rather, to continue the account of how one explanation and narrative of reality was established as the normative one.
Fields of Study & Subjects
International Law and Human Rights
Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
Legal Rights and Human Rights
Publication details
- Journal / source
- American Journal of International Law
- Volume
- 120
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 82–106
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN