This conference offers a multidisciplinary perspective to interrogate the colonial roots of Western modernity through the lenses of legal hi
Istituto Svizzero di Roma
Via Liguria 20 00187 Roma ItalyThe making of colonialism through law and other fictions
The conference will be held in English at the Istituto Svizzero, Via Liguria 20, Roma and online.
Curated by Veronica Pecile (Fellow Roma Calling, Law, Social sciences).
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Istituto Svizzero
Via Liguria 20, Rome
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In the creation of colonies, different discourses and techniques were used to turn fantasies of domination and dispossession into a distinct socio-economic reality. In the Italian case, such fantasies included the utopia of transforming the Southern landless peasants into property owners and regaining the conquests of the Roman empire as a basis for the new national imagination. This conference offers a multidisciplinary perspective to interrogate the colonial roots of Western modernity through the lenses of legal history, postcolonial theory and cultural studies.