Colonial Legacies in Postcolonial Contexts - A Critical Rhetorical Examination of Legal Histories

This book provides a rhetorical analysis of some key legal situations that illustrate some of the problematics of colonial and neocolonial situations. A series of case studies from several continents is used to illustrate how colonial rules and regulations have been "co-produced" by elites and subalterns. This book looks at how both material and symbolic resources have been mobilized at key historical moments to justify the appropriation of land, mineral wealth, labor, and even genetic resources. These key colonial histories continue to influence many of the economic, political, social, and legal relationships that exist between "developed" and "underdeveloped" countries.

About the author

The Author: Marouf A. Hasian, Jr. is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Utah. He received his J.D. from Campbell University, North Carolina, in 1984 and his Ph.D. in speech communication from the University of Georgia in 1993. He has written numerous articles in professional journals on a variety of historical and contemporaneous legal issues.

Product details

• Authors: Jr. Marouf A. Hasian, Marouf A. Hasian, Marouf Arif Hasian
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9780820455754
• ISBN: 978-0-8204-5575-4
• No. of pages: 255
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 14 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 410 g
• Series: Critical Intercultural Communication Studies; Critical Intercultural Communication Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science