Open AccessSome reflections on a research journey in law and society
Author(s) -
Martin Chanock
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
law in context
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1839-4183
pISSN - 0811-5796
DOI - 10.26826/law-in-context.v36i1.83
Subject(s) - project commissioning , colonialism , scholarship , decolonization , discipline , publishing , politics , media studies , political science , sociology , law , social science
A research journey is not planned but develops according to where one is geographically, and the politics of the broader world, and of scholarship, at the time. My journey took me from South Africa, through England, to Africa in the period after decolonisation, and finally to an inter-disciplinary School at La Trobe University. My research, with its foci on colonialism, and a post-colonial world that continues to be dominated by the Global North, reflects this.