Clr james - Study guides, Study notes & Summaries

These lecture notes and summaries offer a rich exploration of the intricate interplay between the state, modernity, and the constitution of the political, drawing on the insights of influential scholars such as Kant, Sylvia Wynter, Federici, Senghor, Césaire, CLR James, Walter Mignolo, and Tarnas. From Kant's notions of enlightenment to Wynter's critique of coloniality, Federici's analysis of capitalism and patriarchy, and Senghor and Césaire's contributions to postcolonial discourse, thes...

23. Ziems v Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (1957) 97 CLR 279 - Facts: Bar fight followed by drink driving resulting in fatal crash. Held: Conviction for a serious offence does not, of itself, necessitate conclusion that barrister is not a fit and proper person. Personal misconduct may be grounds for disbarring because, by its nature, it reveals some unfitness to practice in terms of the person's character or qualities, but conviction for personal misconduct does not n...

Summary - POLS2006A (Pols2006)

Question: ead the quote below from Laurent Dubois’ piece “Atlantic Freedoms”: “At the basis of every work of history is a question of positioning. This is also, on some level, an ethical question. Whose history are you telling? And from whose perspective? As the Haitian thinker Jean Casimir likes to put it, when you write the story of Columbus arriving in what the indigenous people then called Ayiti, you have to make a decision: are you on the boat or on the shore?” Place the...