Countersign

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Countersign is a podcast hosted by Stewart Motha, Professor of Law at Birkbeck. Stewart and guests discuss books, films, and other materials from across disciplines to consider new perspectives on law, difference, and being in common.

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What we talk about when we talk about genocide

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What we talk about when we talk about genocide

Feat. Vasuki Nesiah 11th December 2023 48m

Discussing the concept of genocide; is it an event or process? How do we move from genocide as the exceptional apex crime in international criminal law, to appreciating its role in the structural process of world-making? Vasuki Nesiah gave the London Review of International Law annual lecture at the LSE on these themes. We discuss the implications of her analysis for the war in Gaza.

BIO: Vasuki Nesiah is Professor of Practice at NYU Gallatin where she teaches human rights, and legal and social theory. She is also faculty director of the Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights. A founding member of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), she is co-editing TWAIL: A Handbook with Anthony Anghie, Bhupinder Chimni, Michael Fakhri, and Karin Mickelson (forthcoming from Elgar).

Nesiah was awarded the Jacob Javits Professorship (2022), Gallatin Distinguished Teacher Award in 2021 and the NYU Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award in 2020. Her current book projects include International Conflict Feminism (forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press) and Reading the Ruins: Colonialism, Slavery, and International Law.
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