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Special Issue Article
Abstract
As part of the Special Issue, this article adopts a methodological orientation that works through and with international law’s cultural legal archive to unearth artifacts that reveal how relations were made in and between nations in the colonial era, and to examine the traces of those constitutive relations in the present. The particular artifact in question is an intriguing literary excursion by a British, colonial era judge in Palestine, entitled Palestine Parodies, which raises for Taha a number of provocative themes “relating to Mandate law, revolution, humor and humiliation.” The paper engages in a detailed exegesis of a number of images drawn from this document, arguing that parsing closely these ‘humorous’ illustrations and drawings from a different era is a way of excavating the “imperial debris that haunt the material realities of Palestine today.”
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Taha, Mai.
"Law, Humour and Revolution in Mandate Palestine."
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
59.1 (2022)
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https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol59/iss1/18