The legal afterlife of...

Melbourne Law School

The world might often seem like it’s ordered and classified in fixed and stable ways. So things are, so they ought to be. Things like war and revolution, citizenship, peace agreements and criminal law, are pinned down by legal definitions, by common understandings, by textbooks… aren’t they? This 4-episode podcast raises questions about how fixed and stable things really are.

Episodes

  1. TRAILER

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    The world might often seem like it’s ordered and classified in fixed and stable ways. So things are, so they ought to be. Things like war and revolution, citizenship, peace agreements and criminal law, are pinned down by legal definitions, by common understandings, by textbooks… aren’t they?   This 4-episode podcast on The legal afterlife of… 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.’   Perhaps the legal afterlife continues for all of us, whether we know, like it, or not. Acknowledgements   This podcast is part of the legal afterlife of war and revolution slow scholarship project led by Marika Sosnowski and hosted at the University of Melbourne Law School.   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.   Many thanks to all the legal afterlife project team: 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.

    2 min
  2. Legal afterlife of… criminal law

    MAR 25

    Legal afterlife of… criminal law

    In this episode Amanda Blair and Sonia Qadir talk to Ian M. Cook about their research and personal relationship to the theme of the legal afterlife of… criminal law. Amanda’s work focuses on the prosecution of sexual and gender-based crimes during wartime and Sonia looks at the criminalisation of political groups in Pakistan as part of the War on Terror. This 4-episode podcast on The legal afterlife of… 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.’   Perhaps the legal afterlife continues for all of us, whether we know, like it, or not.   Acknowledgements This podcast is part of the legal afterlife of war and revolution slow scholarship project led by Marika Sosnowski and hosted at the University of Melbourne Law School.   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.   Many thanks to all the legal afterlife project team: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.

    34 min
  3. Legal afterlife of… peace agreements

    MAR 25

    Legal afterlife of… peace agreements

    In this episode Daniel Ricardo Quiroga-Villamarín talks to Ian M. Cook about his research and personal relationship to the theme of the legal afterlife of… peace agreements. Dani grew up in Colombia, like many others studied law and went on to march in favour of the peace accords in 2016. But the peace agreement has its own afterlife. This 4-episode podcast on The legal afterlife of… 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.’   Perhaps the legal afterlife continues for all of us, whether we know, like it, or not.   Acknowledgements This podcast is part of the legal afterlife of war and revolution slow scholarship project led by Marika Sosnowski and hosted at the University of Melbourne Law School.   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.   Many thanks to all the legal afterlife project team: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.

    29 min

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The world might often seem like it’s ordered and classified in fixed and stable ways. So things are, so they ought to be. Things like war and revolution, citizenship, peace agreements and criminal law, are pinned down by legal definitions, by common understandings, by textbooks… aren’t they? This 4-episode podcast raises questions about how fixed and stable things really are.