Legal Diversity, Knowledge and Power

Bano, Samia

Abstract

In this paper, Samia Bano comments on Karin van Marle's keynote presentation at the Diversity and Legal Reasoning Workshop held at Queen Mary University of London on 23 November 2016, sponsored by the Centre for Research on Law, Equality and Diversity and the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context. Bano argues that in order for debates on diversity and legal reasoning not to become overly abstract or theoretical and therefore remain outside the social and cultural practices in which they operate, it is important that a critical rearticulation and reflection on the question of diversity and legal reasoning engages critically with questions of ontology, agency and the production and reproduction of resistant knowledges. This kind of critical engagement requires also a critique of internal power relations and knowledge claims made within communities and groups.

Citation

Bano, S. (2017). Legal Diversity, Knowledge and Power. feminists@law, 7(2), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.416

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 16, 2016
• Publication Date: Sep 23, 2017
• Deposit Date: Sep 13, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 13, 2019
• Journal: feminists@law
• Electronic ISSN: 2046-9551
• Publisher: University of Kent
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 1-17
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.416
• Keywords: decolonising the curriculum, SOAS student protests, Judith Butler, cohabitation, Black feminist scholarship, intersectionality, resistance
• Publisher URL: https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/feministsatlaw/article/view/416