Sundhya Pahuja
Biographic Data
| ID | 1354517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sundhya Pahuja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sundhya |
| FAMILY NAME | Pahuja |
| SIGNATURE | PAHUJA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0758-8911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
No future without history
Making and Remaking the World Anew
As a particular project of international institutions, development is a way of seeing, assessing, transforming, and imagining the world in relational terms. Interventions are conducted in the name of creating in ‘developing’ and ‘underdeveloped’ places, preferred models of social and economic organisation putatively embodied by the ‘developed’ world. This relational exercise was originally calibrated in terms of a relatively crude comparison betw…
Development, International Law, and the State
This chapter traces three specific ways in which the state interacts with the worlds made, imagined, and resisted by those who live with the contradictory realities of international law and development. First, we look at how international law and development disciplines populations through the state form and its institutions. Second, it looks at how the state itself takes up international developmentalist logics to continue this disciplining work…
The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development
The intertwined relationship between ‘development’, ‘law’, and the ‘international’ is rooted deeply in the formation of the contemporary world. Since the end of the Second World War, ‘international law’ and ‘international development’ have become two of the most prominent secular languages through which competing aspirations about a better world are articulated and put into practice, especially in terms of the ‘developing’ world. Regardless of de…
Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development
Not to save, but to encounter
This essay sketches the lineaments of the relationship between international law and the jurisprudence of Peter Fitzpatrick. It argues that Fitzpatrick was a model ‘transnational jurisprudent’ who accepted responsibility for the ongoing conduct of lawful relations, even as he offered a thoroughgoing critique of occidental law. For the occidentally trained international lawyer, Fitzpatrick's work offers a way to take up that responsibility by reim…
World-Making Through Market Morality
In her 2019 book The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte investigates ‘the historical and conceptual relations between human rights and neoliberalism’. 1
The southern jurist as a teacher of laws
How to Run a Writing Workshop? On the Cultivation of Scholarly Ethics in 'Global' Legal Education
This article does two main things. First, it records and shares a methodology for running a writing workshop in the context of transnational doctoral and post-doctoral legal education. Second, it offers a critical reflection\non this methodology, and in doing so draws out some more general lessons for thinking about our roles as scholars and teachers in the contemporary university.\nOur thesis is that the unusually formal, even stylised, structur…
Beyond the (Post)Colonial
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 195 - 221
Decolonising International Law
The universal promise of contemporary international law has long inspired countries of the Global South to use it as an important field of contestation over global inequality. Taking three central examples, Sundhya Pahuja argues that this promise has been subsumed within a universal claim for a particular way of life by the idea of 'development'. As the horizon of the promised transformation and concomitant equality has receded ever further, inte…
Events
Foreword, Martti Koskenniemi 1. Introduction, Fleur Johns, Richard Joyce & Sundhya Pahuja 2. The International Law in Force: Anachronistic Ethics and Divine Violence, Jennifer Beard 3. Absolute Contingency and the Prescriptive Force of International Law, Chiapas-Valladolid, ca. 1550, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 4. Latin Roots: The Force of International Law as Event, Peter Fitzpatrick 5. Westphalia: Event, Memory, Myth, Richard Joyce 6. The Force of a…
Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law
Law, nation and (imagined) international communities
Although it was published more than 20 years ago, in a world that was geopolitically dramatically different from our own, it is difficult to approach the subject of nation without invoking Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities. This small book has come to serve as an almost mandatory point of reference for academic discussions of the modern nation. And although many disagree with Anderson’s analysis that ‘from the start, nation was conceived i…
This is the World
In recent critically inclined texts on human rights, we find a desire to acknowledge the cultural specificity of the human rights regime, to consider the colonial origins of international law and to take account of the putative axiom of globalization. This trilogy is often accompanied by an asserted faith (however vestigial) in the human rights regime. In this essay, the author explores the paradox of such a convergence, asking whether such texts…
Before the Beginning
(2003). Before the Beginning: A Disclosure of Law’s Foundation. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 1-10
Technologies of Empire
This article seeks to complicate conventional understandings of the way in which IMF conditionality operates in relation to North/South relations. It begins with a genealogy of how the Fund became involved in lending to the South and argues that the Fund was transformed from an essentially monetary institution concerned with the industrialised states to a surveillance organisation directed at providing information about the South to the North. Th…
TradingSpaces
(2000). Trading Spaces: Locating Sites for Challenge Within International Trade Law. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 38-54
Events
Foreword, Martti Koskenniemi 1. Introduction, Fleur Johns, Richard Joyce & Sundhya Pahuja 2. The International Law in Force: Anachronistic Ethics and Divine Violence, Jennifer Beard 3. Absolute Contingency and the Prescriptive Force of International Law, Chiapas-Valladolid, ca. 1550, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 4. Latin Roots: The Force of International Law as Event, Peter Fitzpatrick 5. Westphalia: Event, Memory, Myth, Richard Joyce 6. The Force of a…
Beyond the (Post)Colonial
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 195 - 221
No future without history
How to Run a Writing Workshop? On the Cultivation of Scholarly Ethics in 'Global' Legal Education
This article does two main things. First, it records and shares a methodology for running a writing workshop in the context of transnational doctoral and post-doctoral legal education. Second, it offers a critical reflection\non this methodology, and in doing so draws out some more general lessons for thinking about our roles as scholars and teachers in the contemporary university.\nOur thesis is that the unusually formal, even stylised, structur…
Technologies of Empire
This article seeks to complicate conventional understandings of the way in which IMF conditionality operates in relation to North/South relations. It begins with a genealogy of how the Fund became involved in lending to the South and argues that the Fund was transformed from an essentially monetary institution concerned with the industrialised states to a surveillance organisation directed at providing information about the South to the North. Th…
TradingSpaces
(2000). Trading Spaces: Locating Sites for Challenge Within International Trade Law. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 38-54
Technologies of Empire
This article seeks to complicate conventional understandings of the way in which IMF conditionality operates in relation to North/South relations. It begins with a genealogy of how the Fund became involved in lending to the South and argues that the Fund was transformed from an essentially monetary institution concerned with the industrialised states to a surveillance organisation directed at providing information about the South to the North. Th…
TradingSpaces
(2000). Trading Spaces: Locating Sites for Challenge Within International Trade Law. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 38-54
Before the Beginning
(2003). Before the Beginning: A Disclosure of Law’s Foundation. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 1-10
Law, nation and (imagined) international communities
Although it was published more than 20 years ago, in a world that was geopolitically dramatically different from our own, it is difficult to approach the subject of nation without invoking Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities. This small book has come to serve as an almost mandatory point of reference for academic discussions of the modern nation. And although many disagree with Anderson’s analysis that ‘from the start, nation was conceived i…
This is the World
In recent critically inclined texts on human rights, we find a desire to acknowledge the cultural specificity of the human rights regime, to consider the colonial origins of international law and to take account of the putative axiom of globalization. This trilogy is often accompanied by an asserted faith (however vestigial) in the human rights regime. In this essay, the author explores the paradox of such a convergence, asking whether such texts…
Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law
Events
Foreword, Martti Koskenniemi 1. Introduction, Fleur Johns, Richard Joyce & Sundhya Pahuja 2. The International Law in Force: Anachronistic Ethics and Divine Violence, Jennifer Beard 3. Absolute Contingency and the Prescriptive Force of International Law, Chiapas-Valladolid, ca. 1550, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 4. Latin Roots: The Force of International Law as Event, Peter Fitzpatrick 5. Westphalia: Event, Memory, Myth, Richard Joyce 6. The Force of a…
Decolonising International Law
The universal promise of contemporary international law has long inspired countries of the Global South to use it as an important field of contestation over global inequality. Taking three central examples, Sundhya Pahuja argues that this promise has been subsumed within a universal claim for a particular way of life by the idea of 'development'. As the horizon of the promised transformation and concomitant equality has receded ever further, inte…
Beyond the (Post)Colonial
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 195 - 221
The southern jurist as a teacher of laws
How to Run a Writing Workshop? On the Cultivation of Scholarly Ethics in 'Global' Legal Education
This article does two main things. First, it records and shares a methodology for running a writing workshop in the context of transnational doctoral and post-doctoral legal education. Second, it offers a critical reflection\non this methodology, and in doing so draws out some more general lessons for thinking about our roles as scholars and teachers in the contemporary university.\nOur thesis is that the unusually formal, even stylised, structur…
World-Making Through Market Morality
In her 2019 book The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte investigates ‘the historical and conceptual relations between human rights and neoliberalism’. 1
Not to save, but to encounter
This essay sketches the lineaments of the relationship between international law and the jurisprudence of Peter Fitzpatrick. It argues that Fitzpatrick was a model ‘transnational jurisprudent’ who accepted responsibility for the ongoing conduct of lawful relations, even as he offered a thoroughgoing critique of occidental law. For the occidentally trained international lawyer, Fitzpatrick's work offers a way to take up that responsibility by reim…
Making and Remaking the World Anew
As a particular project of international institutions, development is a way of seeing, assessing, transforming, and imagining the world in relational terms. Interventions are conducted in the name of creating in ‘developing’ and ‘underdeveloped’ places, preferred models of social and economic organisation putatively embodied by the ‘developed’ world. This relational exercise was originally calibrated in terms of a relatively crude comparison betw…
Development, International Law, and the State
This chapter traces three specific ways in which the state interacts with the worlds made, imagined, and resisted by those who live with the contradictory realities of international law and development. First, we look at how international law and development disciplines populations through the state form and its institutions. Second, it looks at how the state itself takes up international developmentalist logics to continue this disciplining work…
The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development
The intertwined relationship between ‘development’, ‘law’, and the ‘international’ is rooted deeply in the formation of the contemporary world. Since the end of the Second World War, ‘international law’ and ‘international development’ have become two of the most prominent secular languages through which competing aspirations about a better world are articulated and put into practice, especially in terms of the ‘developing’ world. Regardless of de…
Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development
No future without history
Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · International law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (5 works) · Human Rights and Development (5 works) · International Law and Human Rights (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works)