Law and Resistance - Toward a Performative Epistemology of the Political Trial

List of contents

Introduction
1. Law and Resistance: Beyond a Normative Conception of Law
2. The Political Trial
3. Law and Resistance: Toward a Performative Epistemology of the Political Trial
4. ‘Black man in the white man’s court’
5. Terrorism and Resistance on Trial
6. Slave-Owners as Founding Fathers: Counter-history in the Courtroom
7. Conclusion

About the author

Awol Allo, Keele University

Summary

This book takes as its focus the judicial apparatus; and, more specifically, the concept of the political or show trial. The book considers the different ways in which a politics of resistance is enabled in the courtroom: as it uncovers a performative logic that contingently conditions, and thus breaks open, law’s otherwise closed normativity.

Product details

• Authors: Awol Allo, Dr. Awol Allo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9781138693951
• ISBN: 978-1-138-69395-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Social Justice; Social Justice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; History, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Courts, LAW / Jurisprudence, Political science & theory, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law