Recalibrating the Spatiality of the State: The Normality of Abnormal Transgressions in the Third World

Menon, Parvathi

Abstract

The paper argues that the opposing ideas of order/disorder, peace/war and normality/abnormality exist within each other, making a discernible boundary between them a fallacy created by the language of law. Therefore, even when a resistance to the order is carried out, it is with the aspiration of assimilation into this phantom world community. I analyze how the concept of nation-state is reinforced through territorial identities, best portrayed through liberation struggles, thus demonstrating how these transgressions, though projected by the international order to exist separate from the order (normality) as an ‘abnormality’, is in fact facilitated through (the normality of) law.

Citation

Menon, P. (2017). Recalibrating the Spatiality of the State: The Normality of Abnormal Transgressions in the Third World. Global jurist advances, 17(1), Article 20150023. https://doi.org/10.1515/gj-2015-0023

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Apr 10, 2017
• Publication Date: Apr 3, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jul 9, 2025
• Journal: Global jurist
• Electronic ISSN: 1535-1661
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1
• Article Number: 20150023
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/gj-2015-0023
• Keywords: self-determination; third-world; liberation movements; state creation