Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge Quotes

“This book is a defiant love letter to the world to
come, for law students, teachers, researchers, practitioners – anyone willing to imagine a new world woven in a new design.”
― Folúkẹ́ Adébísí, Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility

“To suggest, for example, that historical figures that were involved in colonial atrocities were just men of their time, acting in keeping with the standards of their time, ignores the embodiedness and coevalness of contingent and entangled temporalities. This argument discounts both the humanity and temporalities of those, in every time, found on the other
side of the abyssal line. The enslaved and colonised were also ‘men’. They were also of their time.”
― Folúkẹ́ Adébísí, Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility

“So rather than an invitation to decolonise the law school or the law curriculum, this chapter (and indeed this book) poses a different question: What does it mean to dream of new anticolonial worlds from within the law school?”
― Folúkẹ́ Adébísí, Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility

“Decolonisation as a political project responds to specific untenable conditions of global life. The aim of decolonisation anywhere is that decolonisation should no longer be the aim everywhere.”
― Folúkẹ́ Adébísí, Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility

“Epistemological Eurocentrism, relying on Euromodern legal knowledge, produces a world out of itself that never existed, does not exist, and cannot exist on its own. It cannot exist without a trail of bodies in its wake. And it does not count the bodies that through this worldview do not count”
― Folúkẹ́ Adébísí, Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility