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Decolonizing civil war
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-09, 09:08 authored by Patricia OwensThis essay argues that there is a need to decolonize the genealogy of civil war. David Armitage’s new book brilliantly reveals civil war’s generative power in shaping European and North American conceptions of politics, revolution, and the laws of war. But to make sense of the discourse of civil war we also need to account for the constitutive exclusions of those whose struggles elite Europeans refused to recognize as “civil,” those not recognized as part of a common brotherhood or as co-belligerents. The absence/ presence of women, slaves, and barbarous armies is vital to the historical conception of civil war.
History
Publication status
- Published
File Version
- Published version
Journal
Critical Analysis of LawISSN
2291-9732Publisher
University of Toronto, Faculty of LawIssue
2Volume
4Page range
160-169Department affiliated with
- International Relations Publications
Research groups affiliated with
- Centre for Advanced International Theory Publications
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- Yes
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- No