Dylan Asafo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4345133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dylan Asafo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dylan |
| FAMILY NAME | Asafo |
| SIGNATURE | ASAFO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Unsettling Legal Imperialism and Cultivating Homegrown Law
Legal scholarship has often been deeply informed by the study of Pacific legal systems, but in law schools across the world there has been very little interest in teaching about, let alone learning from, the region and its people. Scholars and insights from the region remain grossly underrepresented and pushed to the margins of legal scholarship, and this silencing reproduces the underrepresentation of Pasifika people in law schools, the legal pr…
Critical Race Theory and the Law in New Zealand
To respond to the enduring need for a reckoning with racism in New Zealand through legal scholarship and praxis, this article grapples with the question: how can we adopt a Critical Race Theory (CRT) framework that is located within, and appropriate for, the New Zealand context? Our central thesis is that scholars and activists seeking to apply a CRT framework or conduct a CRT analysis in New Zealand should be mindful of the particular circumstan…
Freedom Dreaming of Abolition in Aotearoa New Zealand
The global resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in May 2020 led to an unprecedented reckoning with the racism within Aotearoa New Zealand's police and prison systems. For Pacific peoples, this led to reflections on the racism of the police during the dawn raids of the 1970s and the racist police violence that Pacific peoples and Māori continue to face today. Notably, when the state apologised for the dawn raids in August 2021, it failed …
‘Kindness’ as Violence in the Settler-Colonial State of New Zealand
The 'politics of kindness' adopted by New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has come under strong criticism recently.This criticism has largely been in response to the ongoing failure of the current Labour-led Government to take the actions that are perceived necessary against poverty and white supremacist hate.This article aims to contribute to this criticism by arguing that a 'politics of kindness' cannot be relied upon to achieve justice…
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‘Kindness’ as Violence in the Settler-Colonial State of New Zealand
The 'politics of kindness' adopted by New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has come under strong criticism recently.This criticism has largely been in response to the ongoing failure of the current Labour-led Government to take the actions that are perceived necessary against poverty and white supremacist hate.This article aims to contribute to this criticism by arguing that a 'politics of kindness' cannot be relied upon to achieve justice…
Critical Race Theory and the Law in New Zealand
To respond to the enduring need for a reckoning with racism in New Zealand through legal scholarship and praxis, this article grapples with the question: how can we adopt a Critical Race Theory (CRT) framework that is located within, and appropriate for, the New Zealand context? Our central thesis is that scholars and activists seeking to apply a CRT framework or conduct a CRT analysis in New Zealand should be mindful of the particular circumstan…
Freedom Dreaming of Abolition in Aotearoa New Zealand
The global resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in May 2020 led to an unprecedented reckoning with the racism within Aotearoa New Zealand's police and prison systems. For Pacific peoples, this led to reflections on the racism of the police during the dawn raids of the 1970s and the racist police violence that Pacific peoples and Māori continue to face today. Notably, when the state apologised for the dawn raids in August 2021, it failed …
Unsettling Legal Imperialism and Cultivating Homegrown Law
Legal scholarship has often been deeply informed by the study of Pacific legal systems, but in law schools across the world there has been very little interest in teaching about, let alone learning from, the region and its people. Scholars and insights from the region remain grossly underrepresented and pushed to the margins of legal scholarship, and this silencing reproduces the underrepresentation of Pasifika people in law schools, the legal pr…
Criminology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Racism (2 works) · Scholarship (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aotearoa (1 work) · Canadian Identity and History (1 work) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work)