Ian Duncanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 812242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Duncanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Duncanson |
| SIGNATURE | DUNCANSON I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nostalgia and Empire
The argument in this article is that three versions of empire have been at stake in the West since the fall of the Roman Empire and the myths surrounding that polity: political empire, empire by economic hegemony and the empire of what can or cannot be known – what is or is not a legitimate way of understanding the world. This is coupled with the concept of nostalgia. Nostalgia may be a symptom of melancholy concerning what has been, or what is c…
Sovereignty
The purpose of this paper is to assert that sovereignty is not a useful doctrine when applied domestically in modern times in the form it often assumes, namely a locus of legal or political authority which has an existence beyond the political system governed by it and which may therefore have resort to extraordinary power in exceptional circumstances. The conviction that this must be so has gained the status of common sense in some circles: afte…
Identities in the Colony and the Family
In relations of domination and subordination there exist ambiguities that may be recognized only imperfectly and over time, and incipient instabilities which may never fully manifest themselves. The two Rolf de Heer films studied here, one concerned with the interaction of Europeans and Australian Aboriginals in the 1920s when Australia was, in effect, still a colony, the other about an unsatisfactory marriage in the late twentieth century, illus…
Mapping Connections
Introduction to special issue of collected papers from symposium 'Mapping Law at the Margins', Brisbane, December 2004 - covering operation of the law at the intersections of race, class and gender from colonial times to the present through the lens of postcolonial theory. This Special Issue of the Australian Feminist Law journal collects papers largely from the second Symposium 'Mapping Law at the Margins' Brisbane, December 2004, organized to m…
The Peronist and the ghost in the state of Australia
The spirit in this article is that of liberal democracy, that precisely state of affairs in which there exists a separation of powers among the executive, legislature and judiciary, an independence of the judiciary and a substantive independence of the legislature from the executive. Additionally, in the 19th century there was added to this structure, in the United Kingdom and subsequently in the Australian colonies, a tenured civil service. Writ…
Writing and Praxis
This Special Issue of Law Text Culture, ‘Making Law Visible: Past and Present Histories and Postcolonial Theory’ originated with a one-day symposium at the University of Waikato titled ‘Law, History and Postcolonial Theory and Method’. The symposium sought to recognise and stimulate multidisciplinary analyses through the lenses of postcolonial theory that made visible the operation of the law at the intersections of ‘race’, class and gender from …
Seen from Afar
Given the large body of expert writing about Hurst's scholarship in the United States, including the contributions to the present symposium, the most useful course for an outsider seems to me to be to ask a type of Foucauldian question: what is it about the fact of Hurst's writing what he did, at the time he did, that is strange to one foreign to the tradition to which Hurst and his commentators and critics belong? Why was a lawyer in the U.S., s…
Colonialism's law, professionalism's discipline
(2000). Colonialism's law, professionalism's discipline. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 191-211
B ook R eviews
Unchartered lands in an age of “accountability”
Cultural Studies Encounters Legal Pluralism
Cultural studies provides an interesting conceptual perspective on legal pluralism for a number of reasons. Rather than asking ontological questions about parallel legal systems, cultural studies frameworks encourage questions about the meanings which might be generated for “law” at the plural sites of intersection of regulatory phenomena: legal meanings must defer to questions about how a subject is positioned, subjected. Narratives of culture, …
Legal Education and the Possibility of Critique
A social activity is characterized and understood, this paper argues, only after one has found a place to put it among one's more general understandings and a frame to put around it to render it discrete and prevent its escape into chaos. Framing and reframing are the concomitants of social struggles for and against closure and exclusion. The paper sees critique as a form of practical and scholarly struggle against disciplinary closure, doubting …
Legal Fiction in Practise and Legal Science
Equity and Obligations
Cultural Studies Encounters Legal Pluralism
Cultural studies provides an interesting conceptual perspective on legal pluralism for a number of reasons. Rather than asking ontological questions about parallel legal systems, cultural studies frameworks encourage questions about the meanings which might be generated for “law” at the plural sites of intersection of regulatory phenomena: legal meanings must defer to questions about how a subject is positioned, subjected. Narratives of culture, …
Equity and Obligations
Legal Fiction in Practise and Legal Science
Legal Education and the Possibility of Critique
A social activity is characterized and understood, this paper argues, only after one has found a place to put it among one's more general understandings and a frame to put around it to render it discrete and prevent its escape into chaos. Framing and reframing are the concomitants of social struggles for and against closure and exclusion. The paper sees critique as a form of practical and scholarly struggle against disciplinary closure, doubting …
Unchartered lands in an age of “accountability”
Cultural Studies Encounters Legal Pluralism
Cultural studies provides an interesting conceptual perspective on legal pluralism for a number of reasons. Rather than asking ontological questions about parallel legal systems, cultural studies frameworks encourage questions about the meanings which might be generated for “law” at the plural sites of intersection of regulatory phenomena: legal meanings must defer to questions about how a subject is positioned, subjected. Narratives of culture, …
B ook R eviews
Seen from Afar
Given the large body of expert writing about Hurst's scholarship in the United States, including the contributions to the present symposium, the most useful course for an outsider seems to me to be to ask a type of Foucauldian question: what is it about the fact of Hurst's writing what he did, at the time he did, that is strange to one foreign to the tradition to which Hurst and his commentators and critics belong? Why was a lawyer in the U.S., s…
Colonialism's law, professionalism's discipline
(2000). Colonialism's law, professionalism's discipline. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 191-211
Writing and Praxis
This Special Issue of Law Text Culture, ‘Making Law Visible: Past and Present Histories and Postcolonial Theory’ originated with a one-day symposium at the University of Waikato titled ‘Law, History and Postcolonial Theory and Method’. The symposium sought to recognise and stimulate multidisciplinary analyses through the lenses of postcolonial theory that made visible the operation of the law at the intersections of ‘race’, class and gender from …
The Peronist and the ghost in the state of Australia
The spirit in this article is that of liberal democracy, that precisely state of affairs in which there exists a separation of powers among the executive, legislature and judiciary, an independence of the judiciary and a substantive independence of the legislature from the executive. Additionally, in the 19th century there was added to this structure, in the United Kingdom and subsequently in the Australian colonies, a tenured civil service. Writ…
Mapping Connections
Introduction to special issue of collected papers from symposium 'Mapping Law at the Margins', Brisbane, December 2004 - covering operation of the law at the intersections of race, class and gender from colonial times to the present through the lens of postcolonial theory. This Special Issue of the Australian Feminist Law journal collects papers largely from the second Symposium 'Mapping Law at the Margins' Brisbane, December 2004, organized to m…
Identities in the Colony and the Family
In relations of domination and subordination there exist ambiguities that may be recognized only imperfectly and over time, and incipient instabilities which may never fully manifest themselves. The two Rolf de Heer films studied here, one concerned with the interaction of Europeans and Australian Aboriginals in the 1920s when Australia was, in effect, still a colony, the other about an unsatisfactory marriage in the late twentieth century, illus…
Sovereignty
The purpose of this paper is to assert that sovereignty is not a useful doctrine when applied domestically in modern times in the form it often assumes, namely a locus of legal or political authority which has an existence beyond the political system governed by it and which may therefore have resort to extraordinary power in exceptional circumstances. The conviction that this must be so has gained the status of common sense in some circles: afte…
Nostalgia and Empire
The argument in this article is that three versions of empire have been at stake in the West since the fall of the Roman Empire and the myths surrounding that polity: political empire, empire by economic hegemony and the empire of what can or cannot be known – what is or is not a legitimate way of understanding the world. This is coupled with the concept of nostalgia. Nostalgia may be a symptom of melancholy concerning what has been, or what is c…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law in Society and Culture (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Legal Education and Practice Innovations (3 works)