1st Edition

Post-Colonial Globalisation Law, Power and Actors in the 21st Century

By Yonit Manor-Percival, Janet Dine Copyright 2024
320 Pages 1 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 1 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 1 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

With the globalist project immersed in conflicts and adversity, Post-Colonial Globalisation offers an insight into the actors who animate it and the power dynamics which run through it. Using the law as the prism through which these are examined, and fusing historical with contemporary perspectives, the book contributes to understanding the crisis in which we find ourselves as a moment of both... Read more

Preface

Introduction

Chapter one The Globalist Project

PART I: Taking: A Historical Perspective

Yonit Manor-Percival

Chapter two On Law and Order

Chapter three Perspectives of Taking

Chapter four: Taking as Improvement: Enclosures and Settlement

Chapter five: Property

Chapter six: Taking by Transfer

Chapter seven: Globalised Taking: Land Grabs

PART II Property Rights and Rights of Nature

Janet Dine

Chapter eight: Rights or Web of Interests?

Chapter nine: Nature as a Commodity

Chapter ten: Property Rights, Animal Rights and Rights for Nature

Chapter eleven: Standing, Remedies and Custodians

Chapter twelve: Delineating Boundaries

Chapter thirteen: Corporate Governance: the Atrato and

Wanganui Cases

Chapter fourteen: Conclusion

Biography

Yonit Manor-Percival is a practicing solicitor and lectures at the School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Janet Dine is Professor of International Economic Development Law at the Centre of Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.