Luis Eslava

Luis Eslava is Senior Lecturer in International Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Critical International Law at Kent Law School, The University of Kent, Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne and International Professor at Universidad Externado de Colombia.
Dense Struggle (II): Oh yes, that, our world

Dense Struggle (II): Oh yes, that, our world

by | 2 May 2014

In the preamble of the Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels made the famous dictum: A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and...

Dense Struggle (I): Violence and the otherworldly

Dense Struggle (I): Violence and the otherworldly

by | 1 May 2014

How can we make sense of popular struggles in this period of late capitalist modernity? What do the experiences, voices, and visions of groups involved in such struggles tell us about the actual functioning of our world — a world mined with growing inequalities, ever...