Natarajan, Usha and Reynolds, John and Bhatia, Amar and Xavier, Sujith
(2016)
Introduction: TWAIL - on praxis and the intellectual.
Third World Quarterly, 37 (11).
pp. 1946-1956.
ISSN 0143-6597
Abstract
This Special Issue emerges from the Third World Approaches to
International Law (TWAIL) Cairo Conference in 2015 and addresses
the conference theme, ‘On Praxis and the Intellectual’, by focusing
on different aspects of the intellectual as a political actor. In
introducing this Issue, we provide some background to the TWAIL
network, movement, event, and publications; and delineate our
own understandings of scholarly praxis as editors and conference
organisers. Broadly, we understand praxis as the relationship between
what we say as scholars and what we do – as the inextricability of
theory from lived experience. Understood in this way, praxis is central
to TWAIL, as TWAIL scholars strive to reconcile international law’s
promise of justice with the proliferation of injustice in the world it
purports to govern. Reconciliation occurs in the realm of praxis and
TWAIL scholars engage in a variety of struggles, including those
for greater self-awareness, disciplinary upheaval, and institutional
resistance and transformation.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Third World; TWAIL; praxis;
international law;
Global South;
Cairo; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Law |
| Item ID: |
12271 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2016.1209971 |
| Depositing User: |
John Reynolds
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| Date Deposited: |
23 Jan 2020 17:30 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Third World Quarterly |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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