I first met Lara Montesinos-Coleman at a workshop in 2016. I recall a discussion on Povinelli’s Economies of Abandonment with respect to everyday resistance and it being necessarily cruddy and mundane. We soon got to talking about our personal lives, and I...
At the core of Struggles for the Human lies the struggle for human rights. Lara Montesinos Coleman dares ask the question that many a jaded critic has already relinquished: Does a radical potential remain in human rights, a system that has been widely acknowledged in...
Human rights rise to geopolitical significance in the 1980s and 90s, and since then we have seen important waves of Marxist, poststructuralist, postcolonial and feminist critiques. At particular moments we see fresh texts setting new agendas, creating new...
Image by Sarah Riley Case, ‘In/human presence’ (2014) Every moment in Relation to another. Every Earth a broken ground. Kathryn Yusoff, ‘a geologic dirge’, in Geologic Life The Law and the Inhuman roundtable discussions compiled in this CLT forum opened on the morning...
Image by Sarah Riley Case, ‘In/human presence’ (2014) The fourth roundtable of the Law and the Inhuman workshop was entitled ‘The Inhuman as Refusal’, and was curated and chaired by Marie Petersmann. The two speakers were Juliana M. Streva and Sarah Riley Case.1 Marie...
Image by Sarah Riley Case, ‘In/human presence’ (2014) The third roundtable of the Law and the Inhuman workshop was entitled ‘The Inhuman as Capital’, and was curated and chaired by Julia Dehm. The two speakers were Angela Last and Adam Bobbette. It explored how the...
