Turntablism in the History of International Law

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ID12627245
AutoresJean D’aspremont (0000-0002-0121-2334, Professor, School of Law, Sciences Po Paris France Law Department, University of Manchester Manchester United Kingdom, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen22
Número2-3
Páginas472-496
Fecha de publicación2020-10-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1388-199X • E-ISSN: 1571-8050
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/15718050-12340142
OpenAlexW3121343566
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas23

This article uses the metaphor of turntablism to shed light on the confinement of international lawyers’ engagement with history to the terms, vocabularies, and categories of the very historical narratives they seek to evaluate, disrupt, or displace. For the sake of this article, turntablism is understood here as the art of creating new music and sound effects by using one or several turntables on which a record is placed. This article argues that twenty-first century international lawyers engaging with the history of international law are talented turntablists in that the many historiographical works of international lawyers produced since the so-called ‘historical turn’ have remained confined to the very terms, categories, and vocabularies of the histories whose creation they have been discoursing and theorising. This article ultimately shows that turntablism is not the inevitable fate of international lawyers engaging with history, and that a radical historical critique is possible and should be promoted

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