Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History - Brossura

Esmeir, Samera

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0804783047 ISBN 13: 9780804783040

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

In colonial Egypt, the state introduced legal reforms that claimed to liberate Egyptians from the inhumanity of pre-colonial rule and elevate them to the status of human beings. These legal reforms intersected with a new historical consciousness that distinguished freedom from force and the human from the pre-human, endowing modern law with the power to accomplish but never truly secure this transition. Samera Esmeir offers a historical and theoretical account of the colonizing operations of modern law in Egypt. Investigating the law, both on the books and in practice, she underscores the centrality of the "human" to Egyptian legal and colonial history and argues that the production of "juridical humanity" was a constitutive force of colonial rule and subjugation. This original contribution queries long-held assumptions about the entanglement of law, humanity, violence, and nature, and thereby develops a new reading of the history of colonialism.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Samera Esmeir is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0804783047
• ISBN 13: 9780804783040
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384