1st Edition
Law, Femicide, and Countercolonial-Feminist Praxis Choreographies of Survival
By Juliana Streva
Copyright 2026
192 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book unearths the buried legacies of modern legal thought, exposing femicide’s entanglements with colonialism, Black Atlantic slavery, and their enduring afterlives, while forging countercolonial pathways to justice.
In the wake of Marielle Franco’s assassination – a Black feminist city councilor murdered in Rio de Janeiro in 2018 – and amid the global resurgence of far-right... Read more
-1. Legal Under/Grounds and the Front Door of Violence 0. Subject-Positions: Body and Territory 1. Colonial Racial-Patriarchal Order: Nation-State and Democracy 2. Seeding a Politics of Vitality: Countercolonial-Feminist Praxis and the Limits of Justice
Biography
Juliana Streva is a transdisciplinary legal scholar born and raised in Brazil, currently working as a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University, USA.
