Racial Capitalism and the Dialectics of Development: Exposing the Limits and Lies of International Economic Law.

IF 0.8 Q2 LAW LAW AND CRITIQUE Pub Date : 2022-11-26 DOI:10.1007/s10978-022-09336-z
Mohsen Al Attar, Claire Smith
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International economic law is peculiar. It claims universal character, yet eschews engagement with many, if not all, the racialised features of the global political economy. Its scholars mostly ignore imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism; they exclude slavery, predation, and racism altogether. In the following article, we draw upon Walter Rodney's dialectics of development to offer a racial capitalist critique of international economic law. The disciplinary boundaries and operative logic normalised by its denizens corral us in a white, Eurocentric episteme. Ahistoricism, decontextualisation, and externalisation are three epistemic devices at the forefront of the exclusionary discourse of IEL. In this space, the histories and epistemologies of Black peoples are ghettoised, treated as alien to the framework. After identifying this bias, we use the Black Radical Tradition to evaluate IEL's amenability to the racial capitalism critique.

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种族资本主义与发展辩证法:国际经济法的局限与谎言
国际经济法是奇特的。它声称自己具有普遍性,但却回避了全球政治经济中的许多(如果不是全部的话)种族特征。其学者大多忽视帝国主义、殖民主义和资本主义;他们完全排除奴隶制、掠夺和种族主义。在下文中,我们将借鉴沃尔特-罗德尼的发展辩证法,对国际经济法进行种族资本主义批判。国际经济法的学科界限和运作逻辑将我们禁锢在以白人和欧洲为中心的认识论中。历史主义、非语境化和外在化是国际经济法排斥性话语中最重要的三种认识论手段。在这一空间中,黑人的历史和认识论被聚居区化,被视为与这一框架格格不入。在确定这种偏见之后,我们使用黑人激进传统来评估 IEL 对种族资本主义批判的适应性。
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