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Decolonizing Law: Indigenous, Third World and Settler Perspectives

Decolonizing law? Everyone wants to decolonize something, at some point!Building bridges, connecting communities Organization and themes of the collection Challenging limitations of settler colonialism Decolonizing Anishinaabe nibi inaakonigewin and gikendaasowin research: reinscribing Anishinaabe approaches to law and knowledge Statehood, Canadian sovereignty, and the attempted domestication of Indigenous legal relations Decolonization in Third and Fourth Worlds: synergy, solidarity, and sustainability through international law Perspectives from the Global North and South International Mastery and gratitude: development aid and the colonial condition in Palestine Rethinking international legal education in Latin America: exploring some obstacles of a hegemonic colonial academic model in Chile and Colombia Sites of engagement Indigenous peoples and Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant: the mobilization of displaced Indigenous peoples in the urban area of Altamira Unearthing (de)colonial legal relations: mining law in Aotearoa New Zealand Comparative law and epistemologies of ignorance in Chilean constitutional adjudication: a case study Not empty of laws: Indigenous legal orders and the Canadian state The right to free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC): reflections on experiences of two Indigenous communities in northern regions of Canada and Chile Decolonizing through Indigenous worldviews Decolonizing corrections (Re)bundling nêhiyaw âskiy: nêhiyaw constitutionalism through land stories Conducting research from an Indigenous lens Notes on contributors

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The power of “soft law” of the World Health Organization: International Health Regulations (2005)
The previous iteration of the IHR was bom as an international health legal document originally adopted by WHO to coordinate international disputes arising from conflicting priorities between managing health issues and protecting trade interests. It replaced various health conventions implemented before...
(International Regimes in Global Health Governance)
Decolonizing law? Everyone wants to decolonize something, at some point!
If we take the perspective that a settler colonial place is one where enslaved peoples have been forced to go to, and fled to, where refugees have been forced to go to, and fled to, and where immigrants have been coerced or chosen to go to, then these spaces are also gathering places. In the Anishinaabe...
(Decolonizing Law: Indigenous, Third World and Settler Perspectives)
Not empty of laws: Indigenous legal orders and the Canadian state
Mary Eberts Indigenous law is one of the three pillars of Canadian law Edwards v. Attorney General of Canada, [ 1930] AC 124 at 136 [Edwards], yet has no place in the Canadian constitutional order. Philip Girard, Jim Phillips & R. Blake Brown, A History of Law in Canada, Vol. 1: Beginningsto 1866...
(Decolonizing Law: Indigenous, Third World and Settler Perspectives)
Decolonizing through Indigenous worldviews
Decolonizing corrections Beverley Jacobs, Yvonne Johnson and Joey Twins Introduction Decolonizing corrections means that there is a complete transformative change of the criminal legal system called corrections - a foreign colonial prison system forced upon Indigenous peoples. As noted...
(Decolonizing Law: Indigenous, Third World and Settler Perspectives)
The meaningful order of the world: The teleological perspective
Prior to the renaissance, the teleological tradition emphasised the overall “aims”, goals or “purposes” of phenomena and processes.1 Central to the teleological perspective was one of the four types of causes identified by Aristotle, namely the final cause, mentioned above. Andrew Woodfield states...
(Functionalist Construction Work in Social Science: The Lost Heritage)
The rise of China/emerging powers – world system theory’s perspectives
The world system theory’s conception of hegemony emphasizes state-based class and material forms of a hegemony that is shaped and maintained by a global division of labor. This division of labor constantly generates and regenerates unequal exchange, and that, in turn, differentiates the strong/rich...
(The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy: Conversations and Inquiries)
“Living well together” as indigenous living worlds
I argue that Buen Vivir — and more particularly the Indigenous terms from which it originates — as the conceptualization of lived Indigenous philosophy may serve to extend the concept of conviviality from the sphere of humans to humans and non-humans, thus providing systemic solutions...
(The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies)
Decolonization in Third and Fourth Worlds: synergy, solidarity, and sustainability through international law
Usha Natarajan Recognition The Australian Prime Minister made the following statement as part of his address in December 1992 to launch the International Year of the World’s Indigenous Peoples: It begins, I think, with that act of recognition. Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing....
(Decolonizing Law: Indigenous, Third World and Settler Perspectives)
Renaissance Anatomy in the Americas: A Bioarchaeological Perspective on the Earliest Skeletal Evidence of Autopsy in the New World
Thomas A. Crist and Marcella H. Sorg In October 1564, Andreas Vesalius, the Flemish author of history’s most significant text on human anatomy, died on the Greek island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea. On a voyage from Egypt to Venice, Vesalius’s ship had been caught for more than a...
(The Bioarchaeology of Dissection and Autopsy in the United States)
The EU Countries in the World Economy: A Comparative Perspective
Ifwe adopt a historical perspective, the relative declines and rises ofcountries (and regions) in the world are particularly striking (see Maddison 2007); many factors can be considered as key determinants of this long-run dynamic. Moreover, in around 1870 a complex process of globalization started,...
(Europe and the Euro: Integration, Crisis and Policies)