Au-delà de la critique… Approches tiers-mondistes et scènes internationales d’exercice du droit pénal
Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) have evolved in the last two decades into a fertile source for interpretations and engagements of international law and its relationship with its colonial past and the manifold complicity of law and forms of domination. As an eclectic and critical...
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| Gepubliceerd in: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/champpenal, |
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| Formaat: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Taal: | Français |
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Champ pénal/Penal field
2016
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) have evolved in the last two decades into a fertile source for interpretations and engagements of international law and its relationship with its colonial past and the manifold complicity of law and forms of domination. As an eclectic and critical stream, TWAIL comprises approaches such as feminism, postcolonialism, marxism, and post-structuralism. The common denominator of these eclectic approaches seems to be the importance they give to colonialism and forms and structures of domination. TWAIL scholars sought to uncover the role of colonialism in the development of international law and critique the euro-centrism that characterized international law. The current essay acknowledges the contribution that TWAIL made to the recent development in the theory and practice international law. It then proceeds to take TWAIL to task by asking how the approaches conceptualized international criminal processes. The article surveys how early and later generations of TWAIL scholars thought of criminal justice both in domestic and international contexts. The paper concludes that TWAIL can contribute to the articulation of an alternative view of international criminal justice. This is nonetheless predicated on a sound relationship to critique and the recognition of the danger of reifying critique. |
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