Keeping Hold of Justice2020

"Four of the Chief Investigators from the Minutes of Evidence project-which combines research, education, performance and public engagement to spark new ways of understanding structural inequalities in settler societies like Australia-closely consider law's complex relation to the structural injustices of colonialism. This interdisciplinary book brings together the insights and approaches of history, criminology, socio-legal studies and law to present a range of case studies of the encounter between law and colonialism. Through historical and contemporary case studies, it emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a structural injustice which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and continues to affect people's lives in the present. It...