A Region among States by Lee Cabatingan - 9780226825595

Name: A Region among States by Lee Cabatingan - 9780226825595
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

A Region among StatesLaw and Non-sovereignty in the Caribbean\nAuthor(s): Lee Cabatingan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226825595, 978-0226825595\nSynopsis\nBased on long-term ethnographic fieldwork at the Caribbean Court of Justice, A Region among States explores the possibility of constituting a region on a geopolitical and ideological terrain dominated by the nation-state.\n\n How is it that a great swath of the independent, English-speaking Caribbean continues to accept the judicial oversight of their former colonizer via the British institution of the Privy Council? And what possibilities might the Caribbean Court of Justicea judicial institution responsive to the region, not to any single nationoffer for untangling sovereignty and regionhood, law and modernity, and postcolonial Caribbean identity?\n Joining the Court as an intern, Lee Cabatingan studied its work up close: she atten.