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Decolonizing civil war

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posted on 2023-06-09, 09:08 authored by Patricia Owens
This 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.

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  • Published

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Journal

Critical Analysis of Law

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2291-9732

Publisher

University of Toronto, Faculty of Law

Issue

2

Volume

4

Page range

160-169

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  • International Relations Publications

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  • Centre for Advanced International Theory Publications

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  • Yes

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Legacy Posted Date

2017-12-01

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-12-01

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-12-01

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