In this episode Amanda Blair and Sonia Qadir talk to Ian M. Cook about their research and personal relationship to the theme of the legal afterlife of… criminal law. Amanda’s work focuses on the prosecution of sexual and gender-based crimes during wartime and Sonia looks at the criminalisation of political groups in Pakistan as part of the War on Terror.
This 4-episode podcast on The legal afterlife of… raises questions about how fixed and stable things really are. Perhaps, as Professor of Literature Frederick Jameson has said, ‘it might be time for us to consider that the living present is scarcely as self-sufficient as it claims to be; that we would do well not to count on its density and solidity, which might under certain circumstances betray us.’
Perhaps the legal afterlife continues for all of us, whether we know, like it, or not.
Acknowledgements
This podcast is part of the legal afterlife of war and revolution slow scholarship project led by Marika Sosnowski and hosted at the University of Melbourne Law School.
The Executive Producer is Marika (Miki) Sosnowski
The Host and Producer is Ian M. Cook
The theme music is taken from a track called Surge2 by James Henderson
The show’s artwork is by Hisham Rifaie
The show is kindly supported by the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness and the University of Melbourne.
Many thanks to all the legal afterlife project team:Jenny Hedström, Nasia Hadjigeorgiou, Izzy Rhoads, Anuja Jaiswal, Birgitte Stampe Holst, Charlotte al Khalili, Carlos Antonio Díaz Bolaños, Daniel Ricardo Quiroga-Villamarín, Amanda Blair and Sonia Qadir.