Personhood, jurisdiction and injustice: law, colonialities and the global order

Blanco, Elena and Grear, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2993-1370 2019. Personhood, jurisdiction and injustice: law, colonialities and the global order. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 10 (1) , pp. 86-117. 10.4337/jhre.2019.01.05

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Abstract

Set against the colonial and neo-colonial unevenness of the globalised neoliberal order, this article offers a critical reading of legal personhood and jurisdiction as mechanisms of privilege and predation. Transnational corporations (TNCs) are, we suggest, the ultimate insider construct for the neoliberal capitalist-techno order. Meanwhile, increasing numbers of corporeal human beings on the move as the marginalised products of that same order (especially refugees and migrants) are confronted by boundaries and barriers all too material in their effect. In an age of anxiety-driven border-hardening against mass human migration and of seamless, instantaneous movements of transnational capital and corporate location across jurisdictional boundaries, we examine the patterns of injustice implicated in and between these phenomena, tracing a Eurocentric logic visible in the complex continuities between coloniality, capitalism and the production of precarity in the Anthropocene.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics Law
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
ISSN:	1759-7188
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	7 December 2018
Date of Acceptance:	4 November 2018
Last Modified:	12 Nov 2024 22:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/117417

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