International law is often represented as a neutral and universal legal system; however, critical scholarship has illustrated the ways in which it is inextricably embedded in colonial histories and sustained by global power hierarchies. Third World Approaches to International Law emerged as a significant critical intervention, highlighting the Eurocentric underpinnings of international law and it…
Gilroy’s theory explores how media representations of race and national identity are shaped by the legacy of colonialism. Central to his thinking are the ideas of the Black Atlantic —a transnational culture shaped by the movement and displacement of African people through slavery—and postcolonial melancholia , a collective mourning for the lost British Empire that lingers in the cultural imaginat…
