Post-Colonial Globalisation - Law, Power and Actors in the 21st Century

With the globalist project immersed in conflicts and adversity, Post-Colonial Globalisation offers an insight into the actors who animate it and the power dynamics which run through it. Using the law as the prism through which these are examined, and fusing historical with contemporary perspectives.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter one The Globalist Project
PART I: Taking: A Historical Perspective
Yonit Manor-Percival
Chapter two On Law and Order
Chapter three Perspectives of Taking
Chapter four: Taking as Improvement: Enclosures and Settlement
Chapter five: Property
Chapter six: Taking by Transfer
Chapter seven: Globalised Taking: Land Grabs
PART II Property Rights and Rights of Nature
Janet Dine
Chapter eight: Rights or Web of Interests?
Chapter nine: Nature as a Commodity
Chapter ten: Property Rights, Animal Rights and Rights for Nature
Chapter eleven: Standing, Remedies and Custodians
Chapter twelve: Delineating Boundaries
Chapter thirteen: Corporate Governance: the Atrato and
Wanganui Cases
Chapter fourteen: Conclusion

About the author

Yonit Manor-Percival is a practicing solicitor and lectures at the School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Janet Dine is Professor of International Economic Development Law at the Centre of Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.

Summary

With the globalist project immersed in conflicts and adversity, Post-Colonial Globalisation offers an insight into the actors who animate it and the power dynamics which run through it. Using the law as the prism through which these are examined, and fusing historical with contemporary perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Janet Dine, Janet (Queen Mary Dine, Dine Janet, Yonit Manor-Percival, Yonit Dine Manor-Percival
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781138230163
• ISBN: 978-1-138-23016-3
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, International Law, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government, Development Studies