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Promoting information sharing and community building between individuals and organisations working on issues related to armed groups and international law. Providing updates on news stories and publicize academic journal articles and seminars, talks and conferences on issues related to armed groups.
“The Legal Afterlife of War and Revolution” slow scholarship project has published a new 4-part podcast series called “The Legal Afterlife of….” which can be found here:
Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-legal-afterlife-of/id1804460968
It is organised and led by Marika Sosnowski at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at Melbourne Law School. The legal afterlife project team are Jenny Hedström, Nasia Hadjigeorgiou, Izzy Rhoads, Anuja Jaiswal, Birgitte Stampe Holst, Charlotte al Khalili, Carlos Antonio Díaz Bolaños, Daniel Ricardo Quiroga-Villamarín, Amanda Blair and Sonia Qadir.
Marika describes it as follows:
The project raises questions about how fixed and stable things really are. Perhaps, as Professor of Literature Frederick Jameson has said, ‘it might be time for us to consider that the living present is scarcely as self-sufficient as it claims to be; that we would do well not to count on its density and solidity, which might under certain circumstances betray us.
The slow scholarship nature of the project is designed to turn the neoliberal academic imperative of competition, invidualisation and production on its head, to focus on relationship-building and shared knowledge generation. The work of the group seeks to better understand how people experience the law at an everyday level after world-shaping events in a range of contexts including Myanmar, Colombia, Cyprus, North Korea, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, Germany and Australia; and how these afterlives map onto first-hand encounters at checkpoints, with sexual and gender-based violence, with access to documents and citizenship rights, in frozen conflicts, with movements for peace, transitional, youth and criminal justice. It also shows that perhaps the legal afterlife continues for all of us, whether we know, like it, or not.
The Executive Producer is Marika (Miki) Sosnowski
The Host and Producer is Ian M. Cook
The theme music is taken from a track called Surge2 by James Henderson
The show’s artwork is by Hisham Rifaie
The show is kindly supported by the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness and the University of Melbourne.