Kojo Koram
Biographic Data
| ID | 3429779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kojo Koram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kojo |
| FAMILY NAME | Koram |
| SIGNATURE | KORAM K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1867-2361 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fanon and the Law in advance: The Misery of our Time and the Spirit of Revolt
This essay traces the impact of Frantz Fanon’s thought on legal/political philosophy. We begin by distinguishing economic from psychological misery , a distinction traceable to Fanon’s forebears in continental constitutionalism, antifascism, and history from below, including Suzanne Césaire, Pierre Yoyotte, and René Ménil. This tradition makes two crucial moves. The first develops a social psychology of centralist mentalities and institutions, as…
Phantasmal commodities: Law, Violence and the Juris-Diction of Drugs
An appreciation of the social function of the concept of drugs is essential for understanding the moral panic they engender. Despite only emerging as a concept over the course of the twentieth century, drugs have come to be seen not as mere plant life in the manner that they appear in nature, nor are they seen as commodities, natural resources to be exploited for capitalist gain. Drugs instead function as the primary example of what anthropologis…
Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State
The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line
Book synopsis: The War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead, displaced and incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races, international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line across the globe. While laws prohibiting the production, sale and use of particular drugs are presented as politically neutral and objective, this collection reveals the racist impact of the war on drugs across multiple continents and in numero…
Satan is Black” – Frantz Fanon’s Juridico-Theology of Racialisation and Damnation
Recent critical legal scholarship has shown the significance of colonialism for emergence of modern international law. 1 Paralleling, sometimes interweaving, with this post-colonial/decolonial reading has been a “religious turn” in which scholars highlight the persistence of the theological-political within the ostensible secularity of law. 2 Frantz Fanon has much to offer both lines of scholarship. This article revisits the work of Fanon so as t…
Phantasmal commodities: Law, Violence and the Juris-Diction of Drugs
An appreciation of the social function of the concept of drugs is essential for understanding the moral panic they engender. Despite only emerging as a concept over the course of the twentieth century, drugs have come to be seen not as mere plant life in the manner that they appear in nature, nor are they seen as commodities, natural resources to be exploited for capitalist gain. Drugs instead function as the primary example of what anthropologis…
Satan is Black” – Frantz Fanon’s Juridico-Theology of Racialisation and Damnation
Recent critical legal scholarship has shown the significance of colonialism for emergence of modern international law. 1 Paralleling, sometimes interweaving, with this post-colonial/decolonial reading has been a “religious turn” in which scholars highlight the persistence of the theological-political within the ostensible secularity of law. 2 Frantz Fanon has much to offer both lines of scholarship. This article revisits the work of Fanon so as t…
The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line
Book synopsis: The War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead, displaced and incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races, international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line across the globe. While laws prohibiting the production, sale and use of particular drugs are presented as politically neutral and objective, this collection reveals the racist impact of the war on drugs across multiple continents and in numero…
Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State
Phantasmal commodities: Law, Violence and the Juris-Diction of Drugs
An appreciation of the social function of the concept of drugs is essential for understanding the moral panic they engender. Despite only emerging as a concept over the course of the twentieth century, drugs have come to be seen not as mere plant life in the manner that they appear in nature, nor are they seen as commodities, natural resources to be exploited for capitalist gain. Drugs instead function as the primary example of what anthropologis…
Fanon and the Law in advance: The Misery of our Time and the Spirit of Revolt
This essay traces the impact of Frantz Fanon’s thought on legal/political philosophy. We begin by distinguishing economic from psychological misery , a distinction traceable to Fanon’s forebears in continental constitutionalism, antifascism, and history from below, including Suzanne Césaire, Pierre Yoyotte, and René Ménil. This tradition makes two crucial moves. The first develops a social psychology of centralist mentalities and institutions, as…
Political science (2 works) · Allegiance (1 works) · Alliance (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 works) · Chess endgame (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works)