Empire, Emergency and International Law by John Reynolds Hardcover 9781107172517

Name: Empire, Emergency and International Law by John Reynolds Hardcover 9781107172517
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Empire, Emergency and International LawAuthor(s): John Reynolds\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107172517, 978-1107172517\nSynopsis\nWhat does it mean to say we live in a permanent state of emergency? What are the juridical, political and social underpinnings of that framing? Has international law played a role in producing or challenging the paradigm of normalised emergency? How should we understand the relationship between imperialism, race and emergency legal regimes? In addressing such questions, this book situates emergency doctrine in historical context. It illustrates some of the particular colonial lineages that have shaped the state of emergency, and emphasises that contemporary formations of emergency governance are often better understood not as new or exceptional, but as part of an ongoing historical constellation of racialised emergency politics. The book highlights the connection.