Book contents
- The Law of the List
- GLOBAL LAW SERIES
- The Law of the List
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Abbreviations
- Interviews
- 1 The Law of the List
- 2 Global Listing Technologies and the Politics of Expertise
- 3 The List As Multiple Object: the UN Office of the Ombudsperson
- 4 Complexity in the Courts: the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the List
- 5 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - The Law of the List
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2020
- The Law of the List
- GLOBAL LAW SERIES
- The Law of the List
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Abbreviations
- Interviews
- 1 The Law of the List
- 2 Global Listing Technologies and the Politics of Expertise
- 3 The List As Multiple Object: the UN Office of the Ombudsperson
- 4 Complexity in the Courts: the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the List
- 5 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 1 introduces The Law of the List and the ISIL and Al-Qaida listing regime, sets out the key research questions it addresses and highlights the relevant literatures that are engaged with. It introduces the three key analytical moves of this book – (i) studying global law as a legal assemblage, (ii) examining risk and preemption as practices of governmentality, and (iii) rethinking the problem of exceptional governance. The introductory chapter also positions this book as a methodological experiment in situated knowledge production. The author’s own role within the listing assemblage as a practising lawyer representing listed individuals is discussed. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholarship, it is argued that methods are performative. They enact and interfere with the worlds they describe and so are intensely political. Three distinct methodological moves of this book are also highlighted - studying the ISIL and Al-Qaida list as a multisited research object by focusing on local global ‘structure-making sites’; empirically examining the role of practices in global security law and governance; and using leaked documents to study global security law that would otherwise be secret. The chapter closes with a brief overview of the structure of the book.
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- The Law of the ListUN Counterterrorism Sanctions and the Politics of Global Security Law, pp. 1 - 53Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020