Ahmed R Memon

In this article, I argue that caste was a central factor in the development of British international legal thought in the subcontinent. Specifically, I contend that British international legal thought entrenched caste hegemony into the broader racial civilisation hierarchy of international law in the nineteenth-century



URLs last accessed 21 September 2023. I would like to acknowledge the incisive feedback of the peer reviewers, and thank the Asian Society of International Law for giving me the opportunity to present this paper at the Junior Scholars Workshop in 2022. I would also like to give a special thanks to Professor Srinivas Burra for his detailed comments on an earlier draft of this piece as well as to Dr Martin Clark for providing key insights on some of the British international legal theorists mentioned in this piece

I examine international law in this thesis as a dialogical interplay between its jurisprudential use and its operation as a network. I define networks as a set of actors who are connected through a common purpose, be it secular, religious, commercial, political or economic. Rather than placing networks as something new and antithetical to our conventional understandings of international legal concepts such as territorial sovereignty, or understandings of the international as only a network of actors, an understanding of international law as a dialogical interplay highlights its nature as a relational process between webs of social actors and its static, territorially centered jurisprudence. This approach demonstrates that networks of social actors deploy, develop and benefit from conventional international legal jurisprudence as much as international law develops, and foregrounds itself, through the operation of networks. My formulation of international law is grounded in sociology ...

Through the lens of recent political developments, Ahmed Raza Memon analyzes the complex entanglement of social orders within Pakistan, where persistent colonial legacies interweave through local sociological realities in ways that resonate across the postcolonial world

On 20 March 2019, the Decolonise UoK, formerly Decolonise UKC conference took place at the University of Kent (W Ahmed and others, Decolonising the Curriculum Project Manifesto: Through the Kaleidoscope (2019) <https://decoloniseukc.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/decolonising-the-curriculum-manifesto-final-2.pdf). Out of this came its manifesto to the university with recommendations in three key areas (ibid). The end goal of this student–staff collaboration was not intended to be a strategic intervention to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) work within universities although the body of knowledge (the manifesto and the Decolonise UoK Collective book, Towards Decolonising the University: A Kaleidoscope for Empowered Action (Counterpress 2020)) is open access for everyone to read and implement. We explore this process of self-empowerment through the concepts of (re-)existence/resistance from decolonial studies in combination with the black feminist critical race theory (CRT) methods of counter-narrating. We discuss the detail of racialised life both as part of surviving and through resisting institutional racism and its affective impact upon us. We argue that the necessary conditions that made it possible to do the work of self-empowerment from our intersectional and multiple positionalities across the student–staff continuum within the neoliberal university have been trust, courage and silence.

I examine international law in this thesis as a dialogical interplay between its jurisprudential use and its operation as a network. I define networks as a set of actors who are connected through a common purpose, be it secular, religious, commercial, political or economic. Rather
than placing networks as something new and antithetical to our conventional understandings of international legal concepts such as territorial sovereignty, or understandings of the international as only a network of actors, an understanding of international law as a dialogical
interplay highlights its nature as a relational process between webs of social actors and its static, territorially centered jurisprudence. This approach demonstrates that networks of social actors deploy, develop and benefit from conventional international legal jurisprudence as
much as international law develops, and foregrounds itself, through the operation of networks.