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- Arvidsson, Matilda, et al.
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Editors’ introduction
- 2016
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Ingår i: The contemporary relevance of Carl Schmitt: law, politics, theology. - 9781315742243 - 9781138822931 ; , s. 1-16
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, et al.
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From teleology to eschatology: The katechon and the political theology of the international law of belligerent occupation
- 2016
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Ingår i: The contemporary relevance of Carl Schmitt: law, politics, theology. - 9781138822931 - 9781315742243 ; , s. 223-236
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While contemporary international law is often understood as teleological, encompassing notions such as progress, development, and prosperity for all of human kind, in this essay the field of the international law of belligerent occupation is read as katechonic, as embodying the figure of the katechon within international law’s eschatology. The essay considers Carl Schmitt’s political theology through his employment of the figure of the katechon, as well as Schmitt’s brief notes on international law of belligerent occupation. The reading that follows is an attempt to put Schmitt’s famous claim that ‘all significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts’ to use and to point to the contemporary relevance of Schmitt’s scholarship.
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- Arguello, Gabriela, 1983, et al.
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Marine ecosystem bodies as entangled environments and entangled laws: drones and the marine environment
- 2023
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Ingår i: American Journal of International Law Unbound. - 2398-7723. ; 117, s. 145-150
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The adoption of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the steady development of international environmental law in the twentieth century shaped the marine environment as an object of legal protection. However, the exponential growth of substantive obligations to protect the marine environment, conserve marine biodiversity, and prevent marine pollution, has been largely ineffective due to lack of enforcement. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) deployed for marine environmental protection are seen, in scholarship and policy, as a means to close the enforcement gap, thereby revolutionizing the field by significantly increasing states’ maritime awareness. In contrast, our tentative analysis shows that while UAVs can translate complex environmental concerns into data readily available for analysis and action, such datafication of marine environments comes with high risks. More specifically, datafication enables multiple uses of gathered data, including for surveillance, military, and commercial purposes. These concerns tend to fall outside current debates on the international regulation of the use of UAVs in marine environments. In our essay, we explore whether international law recognizes the possibilities and risks involved in deploying UAVs into the marine environment. We draw on doctrinal and posthuman feminist legal approaches to analyze how UAVs interact with the wider context of “marine ecosystem bodies” in terms of international law, as well as how those terms may need to be reconfigured to accommodate the complexity of the many actors, agents, and materials of marine ecosystems.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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AI, law and (anti)fascism
- 2022
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Ingår i: Critical Legal Conference.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Taking que from Maria Hlavajova and Wietske Maas (eds) Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent this stream asks about the figuration of law and fascism embedded in the posthuman condition: What, where, how, and why do we need to attend to fascism in our everyday lives as living with the law? Why look to present iterations of fascism in emerging technologies which we, as already more-than-human, or humans +, are entangled with when state fascism from the past and present still haunts present democratic forms of governance? Specifically, the stream invites critical assessments of the relations between AI, law and (anti) fascism. How is fascism part of the posthuman legal condition and, conversely, how does anti-fascism take form as part of it? The stream takes as its starting position an understanding of (micro-) fascism in the posthuman condition as follows: Fascism is immanent to desiring-production: fascism "seems to come from the outside, but it finds its energy right at the heart of everyone's desire." (Guattari 1995: 245). Fascism is everywhere and to desire is to activate it in some measure at different scales within a microphysics of power relations. Fascism is not merely a historical phenomenon (with German, Italian and Spanish varieties) that has passed away and will never happen again; it is not outside, that is, retrievable and renewable like a complete artifact, in that respect. This is one of many ways in which to consider fascism in the posthuman condition.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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AI, samhällskontraktet och demokrati
- 2022
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Ingår i: KEFU-dagen, Lunds universitet.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna keynote ger en inblick i hur AI och liknande "nya teknologier" förändrar samhället, hur detta påverkar vem eller vad som deltar i samhället och ingår i "samhällskontraktet", samt hur vi från olika forsknings- och samhälleliga demokratiska perspektiv kan belysa de utmaningar som förändringarna innebär.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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Artificial Intelligence, Decision Making and International Law
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of International Law. - 0902-7351. ; 92:84, s. 1-8
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The question how artificial intelligence (AI), including machine learning (ML), impacts on law in general, and on international law in particular, has gained more and more traction in recent years. Ensuing debates have mainly homed in on threats and opportunities posed to law by this technology, and remained on a rather abstract level. Our text gives an introduction to the field of AI, decision making and international law, narrowing our focus to what we see as a critical area of empirically grounded and granular research in AI, decision making and international law. The overarching question for the special issue of which this text is an introduction to, is how AI, including AI-supported and automated decision making, might impact on decisions we take in international law. This allows us to track how technologically induced practice makes its way into domestic law, and, potentially, from there onwards into international law. Our text sets out some core tenants of this field, and argues that more nuanced and empirically grounded inter- and intra-disciplinary is needed in order to respond to contemporary questions and concerns of AI, decision making and international law
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Artificial Intelligence, War, Law
- 2018
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Ingår i: Conferance panel at the Law & Soceity Association Annual Meeting, 7-10 June, Toronto 2018: CRN23 International Law & Politics.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Convenor: Dr Matilda Arvidsson Chair: Dr Markus Gunneflo Discussant: Dr Ioannis Kalpouzos This panel session is dedicated to inquiring into the converging fields of artificial intelligence, war and law. Bringing together international humanitarian, intellectual property, posthumanist and feminist legal thinking the panel aims to bring forth new questions, better descriptions, and above all an opportunity to think together about our lives and deaths in and with contemporary war and law. Panel participants: Professor Gregor Noll: Assessing Lawfulness in AI-Human Interaction under the Laws of War Dr Merima Bruncevic: The Dark Web and AI – a question of jurisdiction and legal subjectivity Dr Matilda Arvidsson: Posthumanitarian International Law and Practice of War Professor Kristin Bergtora Sandvik: Technology, dead male bodies and the politics of feminist recognition: theorizing the gendered logic of algorithmic protection and targeting Dr Jannice Käll: Coping with artificial intelligence at war- the potential of new materialist jurisprudence
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Att queera universitetet
- 2018
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Ingår i: HBTQ på universitetet.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vad innebär det att "queera" och hur queerar vi universitetet inifrån och tillsammans i allians: studenter och universitetspersonal? Detta föredrag ger grunderna för hur vi tillsammans kan genomlysa universitetets många delar från queera perspektiv.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Being Together - The Silent Touch of Plants. A Posthuman Account of Life, Death, and More-than-Human Kinship
- 2024
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Ingår i: The Fatigue Files Podcast.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this podcast episode, Professor Anna Grear speaks with Dr Matilda Arvidsson. Drawing on posthuman feminism, Matilda recounts her journey with non-human others in the form of plants as kin in a relationship of 'being together'. The conversation, which also touches on trauma, violence, life and death, invites a refreshing appreciation of how our relationship with non-humans are foundational to our own selves.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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Decision Making in Asylum Law and Machine Learning: Autoethnographic Lessons Learned on Data Wrangling and Human Discretion
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of International Law. - 0902-7351 .- 1571-8107. ; 92:1, s. 56-92
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article avails an autoethnography of the authors’ attempt to construct a post hoc intervention machine learning (ML) system responsive to the problem of discrimination in asylum law decisions. In the article we revisit the conjunction of law as a slow hermeneutic, against the fast-paced pull of AI and commercial imperatives to ask whether a ML-driven post hoc intervention system such as the one set up in the research project, reduces the overall risk of discrimination emerging from human discretion in legal decision making on asylum. We conclude that a ML-driven ‘antidiscrimination machine’ will displace rather than reduce that overall risk. We warn that similar attempts at using ML as part of legal decision making, decision support, and post hoc interventions, in international law and beyond, may need to take seriously the risks of human discretion embedded in ML design and data selection.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities in International Law and Technology
- 2024
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Ingår i: Völkerrechtsblog.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The first season of “Digital Echoes” brings together leading scholars in international law, international relations and legal theory to present their work and discuss the implications of an ever-increasing digitisation of socio-economic life from an (international) legal perspective. We have assembled a stellar group of thinkers who invite us to explore how Digital Technologies are changing and challenging the modes in which law and governance operate. How to formulate questions to address the relationship between international law and technology and its implications for governance? They invite us to think with them about what it means to talk about digital spaces or digital rights. To contemplate the topologies of normativity that these terms connote and to investigate how power operates in techno legal assemblages? Enjoy listening! In this podcast Andrea Leiter, Delphine Dogot, Matilda Arvidsson, Fleur Johns and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche explore different ways of how they came to engage with international law and technology.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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DIY Plant Milk: A Recipe-Manifesto and Method of Ethical Relations, Care, and Resistance
- 2019
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Ingår i: Making Milk: The Past, Present and Future of Our Primary Food. - London : Bloomsbury. - 9781350029965
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This recipe-manifesto considers the political theology of milk as perfecting a relation: between mother and child, between sovereign state and lawful citizen, and between corporation and consumer. Insisting on the importance of milk as inherently relational, I suggest that instead of swapping dairy for plant milk at the grocery store, or considering plant milk as superior to dairy, making plant milk the DIY (do it yourself) way offers a method of ethical relations, care, and resistance. An oat milk recipe is provided, including simple and straightforward instructions. The slowness of making milk, the essay suggests, allows us to value the labor we put into milk. It further forces us to reflect on the reasons why we need it and want it, including a more careful consideration of which relations we want to foster through milk and which relations we must, or want to, resist.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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Eating, meat, catastrophe : Stream, Critical Legal Conference, Warwick 1-3 September 2017
- 2017
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Ingår i: Critical Legal Conference 2017 Stream, Warwick 1-3 September 2017..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Human life depends on and is sustained by the death and consummation of others. Unless we eat something or someone we cannot live ourselves. Yet, we divide over what, how, and who to eat. This stream asks us to consider how our eating of others (plants, human-, and non-human animals) sustains our standing in a global legal-political order of gendered speciesism. Through technology of eating, we imperviously transform living entities into objects for us to eat, while simultaneously disclosing (sexual) politics of our eating (Adams, 2015). You are what you eat as Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2009) solicitously portrays. Consuming is not simply an ethical choice but also a profoundly ontological one, or as Stanescu suggests ‘a perpetual process of self-metamorphosis’ (2012, 39). Part of such a process is to define what constitutes meat – is ‘meatless’ in vitro meat (IVM), promising animal liberation and cleaner environment, meat? (Stephens, 2013) – and devouring others. But does constant boundary-work risk to turn us into a standing-reserve of future consumption (Heidegger, 1977: 27), of us turning into cannibals ready to mutilate and enslave (Engle, 1992: 1519)? Would cannibal veganism amount to greater realization of rights of both consumed and consumer or into a catastrophic collapse of our relationship with Nature and the animal-in-us (Viveiros de Castro 2014 & Sutton 2017)? Taking the overall theme of the conference ‘catastrophe’ to mean the life-producing, slow, everyday event of being through the death of others this stream asks if what, how, and whom we eat may tell us something important about our moral and legal standing.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda
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Embodying law in the garden: An autoethnographical account of an office of law
- 2014
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Ingår i: Australian Feminist Law Journal. - 1320-0968. ; 39, s. 21-45
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on an autoethnographical study of the office of the tingsnotarie this article questions the relation between the ethical self and the act of taking up a judicial office, employing the question of how I can live with (my) law. While the office and the ethical self are kept apart, often by recourse to persona, I make a case for the attendance to the self in examinations of ethical responsibility when pursuing an office of law. I propose that the garden, and in particular the practices and notions of (en)closure, (loss of) direction, cultivation, (dis)order, authorship and care-for-the-other which are all part of the gardener’s everyday life and vocation, offers critical insights when thinking through the embodiment of law and the relationship between the ethical self and the office.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Exercising the right authority during belligerent occupation: The Authority of the Coalition Provisional Authority of occupied Iraq : 2018 Annual Convention of ISA, Roundtable theme: Legitimate authority in just war theory and international law. Convenor: Pål Wrange
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Studies Association (ISA) Annuam Convention 2018, San Fransisco.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the wake of the Iraq war the US-UK headed Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) was set up to govern Iraq for the duration of the occupation. Although it is not an obligation under the international law of belligerent occupation to set up a separate administrative body for governance during occupation it is, as Yoram Dinstein puts it, ‘a sensible step’. Resulting from a largely functional approach to governance during occupation the legal and political configuration of the CPA raised a number of fundamental questions regarding the sources of its authority to exercise judicial, legislative, and executive authority in Iraq for the duration of the occupation. While it is clear that ‘coalition’ refers to the shared responsibilities of the two countries heading the occupation – the US and the UK – and ‘provisional’ refers to the temporal aspect of governance, it is less clear what ‘authority’ denotes in the given context. Previous research on the CPA has focused primarily on the failure of success and the legality of the largely transformative CPA legal acts, reviewing these as exceeding what the international law of belligerent occupation permits an occupying power to do. My contribution to this discussion is a shift in focus from this particular kind of ‘legality’ (as only refereeing to the contemporary IHL framework) to instead consider the authority exercised by the CPA within the broader context of right and legitimate authority. To this effect I ask what kind of provisional authority the CPA exercised in Iraq, on which grounds, pursuant to which criteria, and to what ends?
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Feminist legal scholarship’s turn to posthumanism, AI and technology: Hélène Cixous’ écriture feminine in contemporary feminist legal scholarship
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Forgotten Foundations of Feminist Legal Scholarship. Part I: 1970-1985.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper considers Hélène Cixous’ écriture feminine (‘writing feminine’) in contemporary feminist legal scholarship, and especially its relation to the turn to feminist posthumanism, AI and technology. To write one self through écriture feminine is a feminist act in contestation to the ‘phallocentric’ search for the law’s (phallo-)‘originary first term or logos’. The article discusses the importance of ‘writing one self’ as legal scholars in our own time, and how this is and can be done in computer code as well as in other forms of writing in legal scholarship. Legal scholarship has often considered Cixous’ work in the context of ‘the linguistic turn’ – a turn that has been out of vogue for some time now. Hence, Cixous’ écriture feminine is rarely explicitly referred to as part of contemporary feminist legal scholarship. In this article, however, I show that Cixous’ scholarship, and her écriture feminine, is central to contemporary feminist legal scholarship in its turn to feminist posthumanism, AI and technology: The feminist tradition of écriture feminine continues to interrupt the phallocentric predatory imperative embedded in the world, regardless of ‘turns’ and ‘vouges’.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, et al.
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Foreward / Foreword : Gardens of Justice
- 2013
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Ingår i: Australian Feminist Law Journal. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2204-0064. ; 39:1, s. 2-2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Our Gardens of Justice special themed issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal grew out of the 2012 Critical Legal Conference in Stockholm and its theme of Gardens of Justice, a conference organised by Matilda Arvidsson, Merima Bruncevic, Leila Brannstrom and Leif Dahlberg. We issued a Call for Papers early in 2013 in which several conference theme questions were repeated. We called for papers devoted to thinking about law and justice as a physical as well as a social environment. The theme suggested a plurality of justice gardens that may function together but at times also may be at odds with each other. We invited authors to think freely and critically about both the concrete and the metaphorical garden, and invited articles that addressed questions of law and justice as spatial and spatializing structures, as social topography and geography, as political cartography on a global scale, as places where symbolic orders and disorders become visible and may be acted out, as mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, as masculine and feminine and as social utopia. Later in 2013 we re-issued the Call for Papers emphasizing the metaphorical and the juridical linking of gardens and justice: Gardens and Justice have been joined as figurae, genres and topoi in the classical writings of Virgil, in the Old Testament text of Genesis and the Garden of Eden, in Milton's epic of Paradise Lost, in Blackstone in Commentaries on the Laws of England, and not the last, in Neil Young's lyrics 'After the Garden', in his 2006 album Living with War. These and numerous other texts are peopled by figures who live at home, and others who depart from home. Together, and apart, they invite us to continue their genre of living and writing in a world of imperfection, suffering and violence, while maintaining other possibilities and other beginnings. The AFLJ invited articles which investigated the use of garden narratives, whether in jurisprudential writings, in film, in literary works, in political theory, or postcolonial theory, amongst other disciplinary conventions and media. Amongst the numerous questions which could be pursued, we posed the following: How do garden narratives and their figures structure an understanding of Justice, and for what purposes have gardens and justice been linked in national and international law? Are gardens our images of utopia, heaven, peace, or simply a homecoming from the deserts of life? Do gardens help us understand nations and territory? Are gardens ever secular? Are there historic forms of governance encoded in garden narratives? In what ways do Justice narratives in the 21st century understand the figure who leaves the garden as having a persona as stranger, serf, refugee or simply human, or not-human?
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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FOREWORD: GARDENS OF JUSTICE
- 2013
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Ingår i: Australian Feminist Law Journal. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1320-0968 .- 2204-0064. ; 39:1
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, et al.
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How long is ‘now’? The Christian eschatological concept of time within international laws of, in, and after war: a critique of law and of our Nordic societies
- 2010
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Ingår i: Law & Religion in the 21st Century – Nordic Perspectives: New Life in the Ruins – Pluralistic renewal in the Lutheran setting. - 9788757423686 ; , s. 365-390
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The epitome of this article is the reflection upon the question of “How long is now?” This question is interpreted within the context of the Iraq war, 2003 and onwards, as the enduring now specified. Drawing on parallels from the European World War II experience and the use of “Auschwitz” as a metaphor for a specifically Christian guilt articulated in relation to the Pauline eschatological hope of Messianic expectation, a common structure recognizable within both theology and international law is proposed. And through the gaze of political theology – as it is put forward by Carl Schmitt – theology is proposed to be instructing law. The theological imagery of the grand dichotomy of the Iraqi war between the Coalition of the Willing and the Axis of Evil is scrutinized, in order to frame the drama of the Messianic expectation as it unfolds in and after the war event. This drama leaves no one as a spectator, but forces us all to choose side, also in our Nordic societies. It leaves us with the grand question: what is good and what is evil? In the final part of the article the core question is addressed to the Nordic societies, and a vision of a turn from hope and faith in law to hope and faith through law is envisioned for a new life to come.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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International Law and Posthuman Theory
- 2022
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Ingår i: Law and Society Association Global Meeting 2022.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This panel brings together voices from across the field of international law, bringing to the fore how posthuman theory can be used to better understand and tackle some of the challenges that contemporary international law and is facing. From international taxation to human rights and beyond, our concern is with questioning fundamental principles and conceptions of the Anthropocene, late capitalism, and the role of the human in a posthuman world.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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International Law and Posthuman Theory: Introduction to the Blog Symposium
- 2024
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Ingår i: Planet Politics Institute.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this blog post symposium we are pleased to showcase our work and that of our authors of the International Law and Posthuman Theory (Routledge, 2024) on the Planet Politics Institute Blog. Over a series of forthcoming posts, several of our authors will discuss their work, exploring how their chapter speaks specifically to planet politics. While many of the chapters in the collection speak directly to environmental issues, most notably those in the section of the book titled ‘The Environment and the Nonhuman,’ what we found interesting, when reflecting on the works, is how each of them, in some way, speak back to the environment – be that through discussions of land, property and ownership or through a focus, for example, on the links between “old” and “new” materialism, or on racial capitalism. Interestingly, it seems that using a critical posthuman lens ensures that the environment, whether framed as nature itself or more broadly as matter, remains at the forefront of thought even when analysing topics that do not, on the face of it, seem to have much to do with environmental issues. This, for us, is one of the strengths of posthuman theory, in that it allows for a bringing together of multiple vectors of oppression and multiple issues of critical concern together, allowing for links to be drawn between, for example, between coloniality, capitalism and gender and the impact of those structures on the environment, legally, conceptually and practically.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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International Law PhD Supervision Pedagogy: A Psycho/Analytical Situation of Counter/Transference
- 2024
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Ingår i: The Significance of Greger Noll. - Lund : Livonia Print. - 9789152794043 ; , s. 107-118
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This essay traces my work in co-developing a pedagogical framework for PhD supervision together with Gregor Noll, as I worked pursuant to a doctoral degree in international law. It draws on French psychoanalytic scholar Jean Laplanche and argues that the notion and practice of transference in the psychoanalytical situation - as part of psychoanalytical theory and practice - may be helpful as a pedagogical tool for PhD supervision in international law and beyond.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Invited speech: From Posthumanitarian Targeting Practices to an International Posthumanitarian Law: Rethinking Law, Gender and the Human through Posthumanist Feminist Theory and Contemporary Intelligent Warfare Technologies
- 2018
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Ingår i: Invited speech, University of Technology Sydney the Feminist Legal Research Group and the International Law Research Cluster.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Focusing on targeting practices in contemporary intelligent warfare, this talk brings international humanitarian legal scholarship into conversation with posthumanist feminist theory for the purpose of rethinking international humanitarian law (IHL) in terms of the posthuman condition. In the talk, traditional IHL targeting doctrine is explicated as hinging on stable gender dichotomies (male/combatant – female/civilian) whereas contemporary intelligent warfare, in contrast and in practice, concerns itself with the ‘posthuman’ or more-than-human converging material and digital ‘targetable’ body. Moreover, the practice of targeting in contemporary intelligent warfare is explained as carried out by similarly converging material human-machine and human-artificial intelligence entities (including drones, and practices of Big Data collection and neuro-enhancement). The latter bringing to the fore new questions and concerns of human/non-human accountability in warfare. In considering these posthuman intelligent warfare targeting practices and new ways of imagining ethical and legal norms of responsibility in the posthuman condition I argue that posthumanist feminist theory – in particular Rosi Braidotti’s scholarship – is useful. Her scholarship avails us of a much-needed critical position from which to reframe the question of the ‘human’ in ‘humanitarian’ international law, practice, and in terms of legal accountability. The aim of the talk is to bring to the fore the potentials and possibilities in thinking posthuman feminist ontology as a basis of a posthumanitarian international law and as a basis for relational accountability in posthuman intelligent warfare.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, et al.
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Just urban space : street art and spatial justice
- 2024
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Ingår i: Urban Creativity : Essays on interventions in public space - Essays on interventions in public space. - 9789188369925 ; , s. 21-40
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter presents the notion of spatial justice as a way of considering the relationship between law and street art in a manner beyond the legal/illegal dichotomy. Through a series of empirical examples, it is demonstrated how street art literally takes a place already taken and imposes itself in an already appropriated urban public space. Street art thus ´redefines the space in contestation to law. However, street art is ephemeral and its taking of space is not permanent. Street art points to an alternative spatial definition, one of spatial justice, before – and, indeed, while – withdrawing from the space it occupies. Street art creates a rupture in the lawscape which makes explicit the presence and claims of law, thereby also making the need for law’s other – justice – pronounced. The question of relationality between law and street art which we bring forth in the present article plays itself out as a production of space and spatial justice in an exchange of place-taking, withdrawal and pronunciation, law and street art. Spatial justice, as we perceive it here, is thus a way of thinking about law and street art not simply as polar opposites, but rather as co-dependent and bound together in an ongoing process of oscillation, mutual reinforcement and creativity.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Kerstin Anér: Dataskuggan/the Data Shadow
- 2023
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Ingår i: Wikipedia. - : Wikipedia.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Kerstin Anér myntade det i datavetenskap och datarätt förekommande begreppet dataskugga. Anér nämner termen första gången i tryckt media i den kristna kulturtidskriften Vår Lösen år 1972 i en essä med titeln "Dataskuggan". / Kerstin Anér coined the term Data Shadow, central to issues of data privacy law and politics. She mentions the terms for the first time (in print) in the Christian cultural magazine Vår Lösen in 1972, in an essay entitled "Dataskuggan" (the Data Shadow). The term has since become central to, and an established part of, computer science as well as debates on data privacy law, politics and ethics.
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Laugh all you Medusas! Écriture feminine as feminist legal translation, transformation, transgression, and translactation in the age of AI and the Anthropocene
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Ingår i: Australian Feminist Law Journal. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1320-0968 .- 2204-0064. ; 47:2, s. 283-297
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- This text considers Hélène Cixous’ écriture feminine (‘writing feminine’) as one way to do feminist legal translation. It discusses the importance of ‘writing one self’ as legal scholars in our own time as a reflection both on what law as well as what the self is or can be. To write one self through écriture feminine is a feminist act in contestation to the ‘phallocentric’ search for the law’s (phallo-)‘originary first term or logos’. Drawing on Yoriko Otomo’s feminist legal scholarship, I show that écriture feminine writes the world differently through the writing of the self; something which is urgently needed in a time of, as Anna Grear puts it, ‘necrotic, predatory imperative of Euro-centric petro-capitalism and rampant industrial consumerism.’ Legal scholarship has often considered Cixous’ work in the context of ‘the linguistic turn’ – a turn that has been out of vogue for some time now. Hence, Cixous’ écriture feminine is rarely explicitly part of contemporary critical legal scholars’ efforts. In this text, however, I argue that Cixous’ scholarship, and her écriture feminine, is necessary to contemporary legal scholarship in its turn to new materialism, tech and AI: The feminist translation, transformation, transgression and translactation in écriture feminine interrupt the phallocentric predatory imperative embedded in the world such legal scholarship tries to make sense of and rework.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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Law and Disorder in the Postcolony? Law, Missionaries, and the Utopias of Pre-colonial to Present-day Kongo DRC
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Ingår i: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2022.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Our panel turns to history to understand challenges to law and order in the present; examining the present-day ‘failed state’ of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Drawing on unique archival material, centring on the activities of Mission Covenant Church of Sweden (Svenska Missionskyrkan) in lower Congo, 1881–1961, we take on the well-established thesis that ‘disorder’ in the contemporary ‘postcolony’ flows from how the introduction of law and order was pursued during the pre-colonial and colonial era. In this panel Christian and Global North contributions towards the establishment of the Rule of Law, as well as the international legal interests and investments, in contemporary Congo DRC are examined through critical international legal, social-anthropological, and historical trajectories.
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Life and Death by Bugs: International Law, Transgression, and Swarming ‘Insect Drones’
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Ingår i: Eggs, Milk and Honey: Law and Global Bio-commodities (Workshop 6-7 September, Western Sydney. University, Australia).
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- During the last fifty-odd years the U.S. military research agency, DARPA, has launched programs aiming at enhancing, imitating and incorporating insects, insect biomass and insect technologies in military intelligence and combat. An example is the Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (HI-MEMS) program of 2005, and the U.S. Army Unmanned Aircrafts Systems Roadmap 2010–2035 specified insect swarming capacities as field of development for Unmanned Aviation Systems (UAS). While legal scholarship has paid substantial attention to new military technologies such as drones, autonomous weapons systems (AWS), and artificial intelligence (AI) – developments in this field based on insects has been largely ignored. This paper takes the insect and insect-simulating swarming technologies in military combat as its starting point. It asks what significance the insect has as a figure of technologies superior to those of the human animal and as a means for human domination, exploitation, and of killing. Drawing on contemporary debates on subjectivity under international as well as new orientations in accountability for crimes committed in wartimes, the paper seeks to contribute to a posthuman turn in international humanitarian law.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda
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Marginalanteckningar
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Maskininlärning och rättsligt beslutsfattande: migrationsrätt, automatisering och gradvis integrerad AI
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Ingår i: AI, digitalisering och rätten. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144137858 ; , s. 123-142
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Detta kapitel utgår från mötet mellan maskininlärning (ML), det migrationsrättsliga området och svensk förvaltningsrätt. Det ger en översiktlig introduktion till vad ML är, hur det kan användas i rättsligt beslutsfattande, samt vilka centrala design-, metod- och rättsliga frågor som uppstår vid tillskapandet och användningen av ML-modeller för beslutsfattande och prediktion. Vi ställer frågan: ”Om AI är svaret, vad är då frågan?” Kapitlet avslutas med reflektioner kring ett nödvändigt mänskligt kvalitativt tolkningsföreträde och en gradvis integrerad AI i rättsligt beslutsfattande, med utgångspunkt i det migrationsrättsliga området.
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My Sudanese Stills: Seeing the Prince of Tobacco
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Shipwrights Review of De-Centered English.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Contemplating colonialism, death, and the impossibility of seeing what one is looking straight at, this creative non fiction short story fleshes out the darkness and desires of power and race structures in a Sudanese setting in the early years of the current millennia.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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Ordering Human-Other relationships: International Humanitarian Law and Ecologies of Armed Conflicts in the Anthropocene
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Law and Anthropocentrism. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 9780367858223 - 9781000892222 ; , s. 122-141
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter analyses the international humanitarian legal ordering of human and other relationships during armed conflict and disaster by looking at two examples, namely the ‘natural’ environment and human-scientific constructed AI-powered swarms of drones. Drawing on these examples, as well as post-anthropocentric and posthuman legal scholaship, we argue that International Humanitarian Law (IHL) has some potential in developing in a post-anthropocentric direction, specifically in reorienting its focus from armed conflicts to violent outbursts by making use of the Deleuze-Guattarian notion of ‘war-machines’. We argue that this will eable IHL to offer a better protection on a less anthropocentric and more inclusive and equal basis in a shared posthuman ecology. The chapter offers an overview of current legal regulations as well as a theoretical and practice-oriented outline for the development of IHL.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Pedagogy for the Psycho/Analytical Situation in PhD Supervision: A Framework for Practice
- 2023
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Ingår i: Pedagogy in Higher Education at the University of Gothenburg.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter sets out a framework for what psychoanalysis can offer for PhD supervision pedagogy, focusing on the analytic situation. I suggest that the analytical situation, developed within the psychoanalytical field, is helpful for developing good pedagogical practices of PhD supervision. I explain what the analytical situation is and does, drawing on French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche. I expand on translation and transference-countertransference as well as more broadly the aim of (psycho)analysis. In conclusion, I relate the psychoanalytic situation to the pedagogy of the analytical situation in PhD supervision, with illustrations from my own PhD process. The aim is to guide those seeking to develop their pedagogical practices and capacities as PhD supervisors. For the PhD supervisee seeking to orient themselves within their project and processes, the aim is to offer tools for framing the PhD process towards meaningful ends (The main tool being: getting rid of a non-helpful/productive/boundary-breaking PhD supervisor).
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Post-humanitarian Law
- 2023
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Ingår i: More Posthuman Glossary. - Oxford : Bloomsbury. - 9781350231429
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- Drawing on Rosi Braidotti’s posthuman feminist theory post-humanitarian law takes seriously the ontological shift needed in order to move away from traditional International Humanitarian Law (IHL), towards a law able to better describe and work for our own time and condition. To this end post-humanitarian law offers a framework of norms applicable during situations of war, conflict as well as other instances of violent eruptions. Moreover, it moves from inter-national to transnational legal ordering. A central tenant of the ontological shift entailed in the move from IHL to a post-humanitarian law is the possibility to move beyond the human as law’s ultimate genesis, telos, primary object of protection as well as custodian of all things worthy of recognition. Post-humanitarian law thus builds on a critique of both humanism and anthropocentrism as it transgresses their binary distinctions and hierarchies.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Posthuman Feminism, AI and International Law
- 2023
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Ingår i: Law, Society and Digital Past, Present and Futures. - Lund : MediaTryck.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper takes on the question of how posthuman feminism may be helpful as a theoretical and methodological approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and international law. It argues that posthuman feminism is a theoretical and methodological approach particularly apt for describing, arguing and analyzing international law in a particular historical context – in the posthuman convergence, which is to say at the height of technological advancement, ‘advanced capitalism’, and in the midst of the sixth extinction in the Anthropocene – as well as through manifestations of relations in terms of both material and discursive characters. Taking AI as its main example, the paper draws out underlying tensions and concerns in international law, showing how AI brings out the uncanny (Freud’s Das Unheimliche) in international law and its scholarship.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Posthuman feminism as a theoretical and methodological approach to international
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Ingår i: International law and posthuman theory / edited by Matilda Arvidsson and Emily Jones.. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 9781032658032
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- This chapter foregrounds questions of methodology, showing how posthuman feminism can be used as a theoretical and methodological approach in international law. It sets out some fundamentals about what posthuman feminism is and does and what methods international legal scholars and practitioners working with posthuman theory – feminist and otherwise – use. Two arguments are pursued in the chapter. First, it is argued that posthuman theory is both a discursive-linguistic and a material mode of analysis. This is not a novel argument, yet it serves as timely a reminder against the incidental forgetting of a fundamental part of the theoretical and methodological design. Second, the chapter moves on to argue that – and show how – posthuman feminism can help international legal scholars and practitioners employ new ways of seeing and sensing the contemporary world: to cut the frames of analysis differently, and to probe international law’s categories in new ways to reconsider and reconfigure dichotomic and hierarchical notions of oppression, exclusion and predatory violence towards more inclusive and less violent ends. For these purposes, posthuman feminism avails a navigational tool for anyone seeking to make the world a better place, in our own time, as international lawyers or otherwise.
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