Meredith Terretta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meredith Terretta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meredith |
| FAMILY NAME | Terretta |
| SIGNATURE | TERRETTA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Claiming Land, Claiming Rights in Africa’s Internationally Supervised Territories
This chapter reveals that African inhabitants of the United Nations trust territories – pivotal sites for the emergence of international human rights law – used the newly implemented mechanism of petitioning the Trusteeship Council and the General Assembly to claim their socio-economic rights by challenging their administering authorities’ policies on the use, ownership and distribution of land. In the aftermath of the Second World War and the UN…
Decolonizing International Law
This article analyzes the way that political actors, advocate lawyers, and European administrators leveraged the designations political prisoner, political refugee, and prohibited immigrant to claim rights for inhabitants of the UN trust territories of French Cameroon and British Cameroons in the 1950s. Incarcerated activists identified themselves as political prisoners as they claimed that their human rights were upheld by international legal no…
Heart Transplants, Legislating Death, and Disruptive Anti-Apartheid Advocacy
In December 1967, South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard astonished the world by becoming the first to successfully transplant a human heart. In the months that followed, a French Anti-Apartheid Committee proposed an international law to prohibit the harvest of prisoners' organs as French activists combined human rights and legal strategies to question the legality and ethics of Barnard's success. From a South Africa eager to present itself as …
Historical perspectives on contemporary refuge seeking in Africa
This introduction elaborates the aims of the Special Issue, African Refuge | Refuge africain, which are: considering African refuge seeking over the span of a century; moving beyond the classifications that orient annual reporting on refugee statistics; delving into the politics of refuge seeking; and blurring distinctions between refuge seekers and hosts, exiles and humanitarians. The research presented in this issue demonstrates that, whether i…
Bonny Ibhawoh. Human Rights in Africa
Bonny Ibhawoh’s Human Rights in Africa is a readable and historically broad book. It recounts African actors’ constitutive role in human rights, a major preoccupation of many scholars who now identify themselves as intellectual or global historians. Additionally, Ibhawoh’s book makes a number of critical interventions in the fields of intellectual, human rights, and African history. Ibhawoh demonstrates the two-way flow of the idea of human right…
Sons of the Soil”
A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by the League of Nations. The Covenant article authorizing the new imperial dispensation came cloaked in the old civilizationist discourse, entrusting sovereignty over “peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world” to …
In the Colonies, Black Lives Don't Matter.’ Legalism and Rights Claims across the French Empire
This article examines convergences and divergences between various expressions of communism, French republicanism, and pan-black solidarity in overseas France and among metropolitan communities of activists from the 1920s to the rise of the Popular Front against fascism in the mid-1930s. From the time of the first administrative reforms arising from France’s official anti-communist colonial policies in 1922, until the formation of the Popular Fro…
Anti-colonial Lawyering, Postwar Human Rights, and Decolonization across Imperial Boundaries in Africa
Focusing on the relationship between African political actors and their lawyers enables us to see the history of Africa's decolonization as an assemblage of legal processes through which a belief in universal democratic law — meaning law accessible to and in the service of everyone, including colonial subjects — nourished an awareness of the power of universally equal rights — meaning rights for all regardless of citizenship, economic or social s…
Gregory Mann. From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel
Gregory Mann finds a place to study new “forms of postcolonial politics, as expressed through humanitarianism and human rights” (7) in Africa’s Sahelian region. Out of the regional famine of the early 1970s emerged a form of nongovernmentality, or “new forms of governmental rationality realized through NGOs” (2), that took up the work of social governance in place of the state. Mann’s analysis turns on a paradox: humanitarian nongovernmentality b…
African Asylum at a Crossroads
This book examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. It is the first to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony. Courts in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports tailored to the experienc…
Cause lawyering et anticolonialisme
Par leurs alliances avec des militants du RDA en Afrique française à partir de 1946, des avocats français de gauche ont déployé des stratégies juridiques pour poursuivre des objectifs anticoloniaux et nationalistes devant des tribunaux en AOF. Cet article se fonde sur des dossiers personnels, des archives officielles, et des compte-rendus des procès pour montrer comment ces stratégies de « cause lawyering » anticolonial ont façonné les procédures…
Petitioning for our Rights, Fighting for our Nation. The History of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949-1960
Cameroonian Nationalists Go Global
This article reassesses the political alternatives imagined by African nationalists in the ‘first wave’ of Africa's decolonization through the lens of Cameroonian nationalism. After the proscription of Cameroon's popular nationalist movement, the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC), in the mid-1950s, thousands of Cameroonian nationalists went into exile, most to Accra, where they gained the support of Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-African Bureau for Af…
God of Independence, God of Peace’
The story of freedom fighter Jean Djonteu provides a new approach to the history of Union des populations du Cameroun (UPC) nationalism in the Grassfields and Mungo regions of Cameroon. Within the context of Baham, his village of origin, Djonteu's actions and tracts reveal his politico-spiritual reasons for joining the UPC militia in its revolutionary fight against Franco-Cameroonian state administration. UPC nationalism and village political cul…
On the Postcolony
Cameroonian Nationalists Go Global
This article reassesses the political alternatives imagined by African nationalists in the ‘first wave’ of Africa's decolonization through the lens of Cameroonian nationalism. After the proscription of Cameroon's popular nationalist movement, the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC), in the mid-1950s, thousands of Cameroonian nationalists went into exile, most to Accra, where they gained the support of Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-African Bureau for Af…
African Asylum at a Crossroads
This book examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. It is the first to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony. Courts in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports tailored to the experienc…
God of Independence, God of Peace’
The story of freedom fighter Jean Djonteu provides a new approach to the history of Union des populations du Cameroun (UPC) nationalism in the Grassfields and Mungo regions of Cameroon. Within the context of Baham, his village of origin, Djonteu's actions and tracts reveal his politico-spiritual reasons for joining the UPC militia in its revolutionary fight against Franco-Cameroonian state administration. UPC nationalism and village political cul…
In the Colonies, Black Lives Don't Matter.’ Legalism and Rights Claims across the French Empire
This article examines convergences and divergences between various expressions of communism, French republicanism, and pan-black solidarity in overseas France and among metropolitan communities of activists from the 1920s to the rise of the Popular Front against fascism in the mid-1930s. From the time of the first administrative reforms arising from France’s official anti-communist colonial policies in 1922, until the formation of the Popular Fro…
Cause lawyering et anticolonialisme
Par leurs alliances avec des militants du RDA en Afrique française à partir de 1946, des avocats français de gauche ont déployé des stratégies juridiques pour poursuivre des objectifs anticoloniaux et nationalistes devant des tribunaux en AOF. Cet article se fonde sur des dossiers personnels, des archives officielles, et des compte-rendus des procès pour montrer comment ces stratégies de « cause lawyering » anticolonial ont façonné les procédures…
Anti-colonial Lawyering, Postwar Human Rights, and Decolonization across Imperial Boundaries in Africa
Focusing on the relationship between African political actors and their lawyers enables us to see the history of Africa's decolonization as an assemblage of legal processes through which a belief in universal democratic law — meaning law accessible to and in the service of everyone, including colonial subjects — nourished an awareness of the power of universally equal rights — meaning rights for all regardless of citizenship, economic or social s…
Decolonizing International Law
This article analyzes the way that political actors, advocate lawyers, and European administrators leveraged the designations political prisoner, political refugee, and prohibited immigrant to claim rights for inhabitants of the UN trust territories of French Cameroon and British Cameroons in the 1950s. Incarcerated activists identified themselves as political prisoners as they claimed that their human rights were upheld by international legal no…
Bonny Ibhawoh. Human Rights in Africa
Bonny Ibhawoh’s Human Rights in Africa is a readable and historically broad book. It recounts African actors’ constitutive role in human rights, a major preoccupation of many scholars who now identify themselves as intellectual or global historians. Additionally, Ibhawoh’s book makes a number of critical interventions in the fields of intellectual, human rights, and African history. Ibhawoh demonstrates the two-way flow of the idea of human right…
Sons of the Soil”
A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by the League of Nations. The Covenant article authorizing the new imperial dispensation came cloaked in the old civilizationist discourse, entrusting sovereignty over “peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world” to …
On the Postcolony
God of Independence, God of Peace’
The story of freedom fighter Jean Djonteu provides a new approach to the history of Union des populations du Cameroun (UPC) nationalism in the Grassfields and Mungo regions of Cameroon. Within the context of Baham, his village of origin, Djonteu's actions and tracts reveal his politico-spiritual reasons for joining the UPC militia in its revolutionary fight against Franco-Cameroonian state administration. UPC nationalism and village political cul…
Cameroonian Nationalists Go Global
This article reassesses the political alternatives imagined by African nationalists in the ‘first wave’ of Africa's decolonization through the lens of Cameroonian nationalism. After the proscription of Cameroon's popular nationalist movement, the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC), in the mid-1950s, thousands of Cameroonian nationalists went into exile, most to Accra, where they gained the support of Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-African Bureau for Af…
Petitioning for our Rights, Fighting for our Nation. The History of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949-1960
African Asylum at a Crossroads
This book examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. It is the first to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony. Courts in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports tailored to the experienc…
Cause lawyering et anticolonialisme
Par leurs alliances avec des militants du RDA en Afrique française à partir de 1946, des avocats français de gauche ont déployé des stratégies juridiques pour poursuivre des objectifs anticoloniaux et nationalistes devant des tribunaux en AOF. Cet article se fonde sur des dossiers personnels, des archives officielles, et des compte-rendus des procès pour montrer comment ces stratégies de « cause lawyering » anticolonial ont façonné les procédures…
Gregory Mann. From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel
Gregory Mann finds a place to study new “forms of postcolonial politics, as expressed through humanitarianism and human rights” (7) in Africa’s Sahelian region. Out of the regional famine of the early 1970s emerged a form of nongovernmentality, or “new forms of governmental rationality realized through NGOs” (2), that took up the work of social governance in place of the state. Mann’s analysis turns on a paradox: humanitarian nongovernmentality b…
In the Colonies, Black Lives Don't Matter.’ Legalism and Rights Claims across the French Empire
This article examines convergences and divergences between various expressions of communism, French republicanism, and pan-black solidarity in overseas France and among metropolitan communities of activists from the 1920s to the rise of the Popular Front against fascism in the mid-1930s. From the time of the first administrative reforms arising from France’s official anti-communist colonial policies in 1922, until the formation of the Popular Fro…
Anti-colonial Lawyering, Postwar Human Rights, and Decolonization across Imperial Boundaries in Africa
Focusing on the relationship between African political actors and their lawyers enables us to see the history of Africa's decolonization as an assemblage of legal processes through which a belief in universal democratic law — meaning law accessible to and in the service of everyone, including colonial subjects — nourished an awareness of the power of universally equal rights — meaning rights for all regardless of citizenship, economic or social s…
Bonny Ibhawoh. Human Rights in Africa
Bonny Ibhawoh’s Human Rights in Africa is a readable and historically broad book. It recounts African actors’ constitutive role in human rights, a major preoccupation of many scholars who now identify themselves as intellectual or global historians. Additionally, Ibhawoh’s book makes a number of critical interventions in the fields of intellectual, human rights, and African history. Ibhawoh demonstrates the two-way flow of the idea of human right…
Sons of the Soil”
A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by the League of Nations. The Covenant article authorizing the new imperial dispensation came cloaked in the old civilizationist discourse, entrusting sovereignty over “peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world” to …
Historical perspectives on contemporary refuge seeking in Africa
This introduction elaborates the aims of the Special Issue, African Refuge | Refuge africain, which are: considering African refuge seeking over the span of a century; moving beyond the classifications that orient annual reporting on refugee statistics; delving into the politics of refuge seeking; and blurring distinctions between refuge seekers and hosts, exiles and humanitarians. The research presented in this issue demonstrates that, whether i…
Claiming Land, Claiming Rights in Africa’s Internationally Supervised Territories
This chapter reveals that African inhabitants of the United Nations trust territories – pivotal sites for the emergence of international human rights law – used the newly implemented mechanism of petitioning the Trusteeship Council and the General Assembly to claim their socio-economic rights by challenging their administering authorities’ policies on the use, ownership and distribution of land. In the aftermath of the Second World War and the UN…
Decolonizing International Law
This article analyzes the way that political actors, advocate lawyers, and European administrators leveraged the designations political prisoner, political refugee, and prohibited immigrant to claim rights for inhabitants of the UN trust territories of French Cameroon and British Cameroons in the 1950s. Incarcerated activists identified themselves as political prisoners as they claimed that their human rights were upheld by international legal no…
Heart Transplants, Legislating Death, and Disruptive Anti-Apartheid Advocacy
In December 1967, South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard astonished the world by becoming the first to successfully transplant a human heart. In the months that followed, a French Anti-Apartheid Committee proposed an international law to prohibit the harvest of prisoners' organs as French activists combined human rights and legal strategies to question the legality and ethics of Barnard's success. From a South Africa eager to present itself as …
Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · African history and culture studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Human rights (6 works) · History (5 works)