The League of Nations as an imperial assemblage: coloniality, indirect rule and the actualization of ‘International Law’

Memon, Ahmed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3502-7743 2024. The League of Nations as an imperial assemblage: coloniality, indirect rule and the actualization of ‘International Law’. International Journal of Law in Context 10.1017/S1744552324000144

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Abstract

In this article, I reconceptualise the League of Nations as an Imperial Assemblage that embeds and is embedded by coloniality. Relying on the return to the League’s historisisation by Third World Approaches to International Law, I argue that we can understand the League as a governance body that works across scales of international, transnational and local actors, processes and structures to reiterate coloniality within the mandated territories. I utilise Deleuzian notions of assemblage alongside the concept of ‘coloniality’ within the literature of decolonial theory within International Relations and Sociology to show how the work of the League’s various actors, processes and structures across different scales made, actualised and evolved the laws on Forced Labour and Slavery from 1925 to 1932 in the inter-war era with a particular focus on Mandate Territories B and C.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Law Cardiff Law & Politics
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	1744-5523
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 September 2024
Last Modified:	02 Oct 2024 16:21
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/171996

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