Gender Futures:
Law, Critique and the Struggle for Something More  

3-4 April 2009 @ Westminster University, London

Nivedita Menon, Professor of Political Thought, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India

" Outlawing the Law: Towards an Anarchist-feminist Practice of Justice "

"Since at least the late twentieth century, Law no longer bears the simple banner of emancipation. Postcolonial critiques of Law as the vehicle of imperialist transformations of non-Western societies and the Foucauldian understanding of Law as the mechanism of governmentality, along with older critiques of the exclusivity of legal categories, have resulted in several kinds of re-engagement with the potential and limits of the Law. I would explore some of these re-engagements in my presentation."