A Region Among States: Law and Non-Sovereignty in the Caribbean Cabatingan Lee
Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork at the Caribbean Court of Justice, A Region among States explores the possibility of constituting a region on a geopolitical and ideological terrain dominated…
Specifikacia A Region Among States: Law and Non-Sovereignty in the Caribbean Cabatingan Lee
Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork at the Caribbean Court of Justice, A Region among States explores the possibility of constituting a region on a geopolitical and ideological terrain dominated by the nation-state.How is it that a great swath of the independent, English-speaking Caribbean continues to accept the judicial oversight of their former colonizer via the British institution of the Privy Council? And what possibilities might the Caribbean Court of Justice--a judicial institution responsive to the region, not to any single nation--offer for untangling sovereignty and regionhood, law and modernity, and postcolonial Caribbean identity?Joining the Court as an intern, Lee Cabatingan studied its work up close: she attended each court hearing and numerous staff meetings, served on committees, assisted with the organization of conferences, and helped