Keeping Hold of Justice: Encounters Between Law and Colonialism

by Nesam McMillan, Julie Evans, Mark David McMillan, et al.

Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and thereby continues to affect people's lives in the present. It charts, in particular, the role of law in both enabling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472131680
• ISBN13: 9780472131686
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"