Sara Dezalay – författare

Lawyering Imperial Encounters revisits the relationship between the African continent and global capitalism since the 19th century Scramble. Focused on sites of imperial encounters – in London, Paris, Abidjan, Bujumbura, Kinshasa, Johannesburg or the Hague, it provides an unprecedented account of the correlation between the legacy of legal imperialism and British hegemony, and the uneven and unequal expansion of finance and global justice in the current rush for Africa's 'green' minerals. Tracking the role played by legal intermediaries to negotiate and justify Africa's practical and symbolic subaltern position in the global economy, it demonstrates the interconnectedness between political, legal and economic change in capitalism's cores and its so-called peripheries. Embracing the global turn in sociology, history and legal scholarship, it rubs against the functionalist account of global value chains as engines of development. It also constitutes a powerful postcolonial critique of law's double-bind - as both enabler and bulwark against domination.

Taking its cue from theoretical and ideological calls to challenge globalisation as a dynamic of homogenisation – and resistance – as led from, and directed against, the Global North, this volume asks: what can we see when we shift the lens beyond a North–South binary?Based on empirical studies of ‘frontier-zones’ of legal globalisation in India, Pakistan and Latin America, the book adopts an original format. Framed as a relational dialogue between newer as well as more prominent scholars within the field, from various cores through to postcolonial academic peripheries, it questions structural variables in the shadows of legal globalisation and how we as scholars build a space for critique.

Taking its cue from theoretical and ideological calls to challenge globalisation as a dynamic of homogenisation – and resistance – as led from, and directed against, the Global North, this volume asks: what can we see when we shift the lens beyond a North–South binary?Based on empirical studies of ''frontier-zones'' of legal globalisation in India, Pakistan and Latin America, the book adopts an original format. Framed as a relational dialogue between newer as well as more prominent scholars within the field, from various cores through to postcolonial academic peripheries, it questions structural variables in the shadows of legal globalisation and how we as scholars build a space for critique.

Taking its cue from theoretical and ideological calls to challenge globalisation as a dynamic of homogenisation – and resistance – as led from, and directed against, the Global North, this volume asks: what can we see when we shift the lens beyond a North–South binary?Based on empirical studies of ''frontier-zones'' of legal globalisation in India, Pakistan and Latin America, the book adopts an original format. Framed as a relational dialogue between newer as well as more prominent scholars within the field, from various cores through to postcolonial academic peripheries, it questions structural variables in the shadows of legal globalisation and how we as scholars build a space for critique.

Taking its cue from theoretical and ideological calls to challenge globalisation as a dynamic of homogenisation – and resistance – as led from, and directed against, the Global North, this volume asks: what can we see when we shift the lens beyond a North–South binary?Based on empirical studies of ‘frontier-zones’ of legal globalisation in India, Pakistan and Latin America, the book adopts an original format. Framed as a relational dialogue between newer as well as more prominent scholars within the field, from various cores through to postcolonial academic peripheries, it questions structural variables in the shadows of legal globalisation and how we as scholars build a space for critique.

Dossier coordonné par Sara Dezalay avec la collaboration de George Karekwaivanane, et les contributions de Meredith Terretta, George Karekwaivanane, Jeremy Gould, Peter Brett et Éric GobeLe droit en Afrique évoque souvent l''image du legs colonial ou d''un vide juridique. À rebours de cette vision trompeuse, ce dossier contribue à une sociologie du droit encore tâtonnante sur le continent. Son pari est que les juristes offrent une clé d''entrée pour éclairer les transformations de l''État, mais aussi l''historicité des dynamiques de mondialisation du droit sur le continent. Les différentes contributions explorent des situations coloniales et contemporaines contrastées des anciens empires français et britannique. En mettant pleins feux sur les trajectoires des juristes qui incarnent et contribuent par leur engagement à ces transformations sur la scène locale, nationale ou globale, elles montrent que c''est bien dans ces soi-disant périphéries que se jouent les grandes révolutions juridiques, politiques et économiques actuelles.RecherchesBoko Haram, le jihad en vidéo de Élodie ApardConjonctureLes violences dans l''Extrême-Nord du Cameroun : le complot comme outil d''interprétation et de luttes politiques de Marie-Emmanuelle PommerolleLecturesAutour d''un livre. Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival. A History of Dissent, c.1935–1972 de Derek Peterson, commenté par Hervé Maupeu, Carol Summers et Etienne SmithLa revue des livres