Christine Schwobel-Patel
@CSchwobelPatel
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Professor @Warwick_Law, international law, political economy, aesthetics, green transition. Marketing Global Justice: https://t.co/vCq5SgIBAV
Joined July 2016
Academic production can seem meaningless in these times, but I guess we do it to make sense of the world. I hope that with our collection The Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice we might contribute a little. @pashukanist Out soon with @2counterpress
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🚨 My next book, EXTRACTION: THE FRONTIERS OF GREEN CAPITALISM is out 9/23 with @wwnorton Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Link below!
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Happening tomorrow: an event with the ethical candidate for chancellor of the University of Cambridge Tony Booth. If in Cambridge, do join us!
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The Settlers, the doc I made for the BBC, is now available to stream in the US on BBC Select. It couldn’t be more timely with the announcement today that the Israeli govt has approved construction of 22 new settlements in the West Bank - which are illegal under international law.
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Glad to see this article now out. Part of a special issue on the history of international law, I write on, and against, the erasure of the Marxist tradition in the international legal history of decolonisation. https://t.co/PQbc8HFen6
brill.com
Abstract Despite growing interest in the international legal history of decolonisation, significant elisions remain. Through a ‘symptomatic reading’ of recent engagements with that history, this...
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I’ve uploaded a forthcoming chapter titled ‘Rubble’ in which I reflect on the rubble in Gaza, the rubble of liberal international law, and Walter Benjamin’s ‘rubble of history’ https://t.co/8CdPvibRL5
academia.edu
In this short reflection, I centre the rubble in Gaza and its relationship to settler colonialism, history, and international law. I reflect on the material role of rubble in settler colonialism, its...
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UK must impose sanctions on Israel to meet legal obligations, say more than 800 lawyers
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Letter to PM signed by retired supreme court justices among others says lack of action will imperil international legal system
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Former judges and over 800 lawyers call for sanctions on Israel.
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4 years, 5 countries, 6 languages, 8 archives,thousands of pages later, bound proofs of INDIGNITY have landed on my (or, rather, B. Webb’s) desk! Publishing @PenguinUKBooks in the UK in Sept +🇦🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇸🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇳🇱🇮🇹🇸🇮🇧🇷 + more. So excited (and terrified) to share with you all❤️🧿!
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AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "International Criminal Law's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution, and Transformational Pedagogies" is now available to read and features and incredible line-up of scholars. https://t.co/dD2ram8d31
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Check out our wonderful collection of essays plotting, dreaming, reimagining, abolishing, redistributing and reconstructing ICL's Critical Aftermaths w. @CSchwobelPatel & @RiClements
AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "International Criminal Law's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution, and Transformational Pedagogies" is now available to read and features and incredible line-up of scholars. https://t.co/dD2ram8d31
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If anyone is around LSE next week, Ill be speaking about my current project on Spatialising Human Rights, in particular looking at spatial understandings of a case of sexual violence at protest.
lselaw.events
The PIL hub lunch-time seminar series aims to provide an opportunity to discuss and debate leading research on contemporary, theoretical and historical issues of international law. Speaker: Illan...
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UN Commission: “There is no escape from the conclusion that Israel has employed sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians to terrorise them and perpetuate a system of oppression that undermines their right to self-determination.”
ohchr.org
GENEVA - Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination...
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Join us on Wednesday, 19th March, from 1-2pm in @IrishCentreHR Seminar Room, @UniOfGalway, for 'International Criminal Law’s Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution, and Transformational Pedagogies' with Professor @CSchwobelPatel as part of our Lunchtime Seminar Series.
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Fourth instalment in the lectures series on Marx and the Climate Crisis: Marx and Environmentalism available now from @the87press: https://t.co/PBzSgi78sH
the87press.co.uk
This fourth and final lecture departs from the current “energy impasse” to ask how a contemporary environmental politics might address the obstacles that stand in the way of human and nonhuman...
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Join us for our final reading group of the term next Wednesday 12 March 11-12am. We have been reading Gillian Rose this term and will finish with excerpts from her wonderful memoir Love's Work, introduced by @CSchwobelPatel
This term we are reading Gillian Rose (also to mark the 30 yr anniversary of her death). We meet on Teams every other Wednesday 11-12, beginning 29th Jan. Everyone is welcome. Email Giselle.Bickley@warwick.ac.uk for a meeting link.
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No Other Land airs on Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March. Please share widely so as many people as possible can witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist.
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Can’t wait for this book to come out! This is going to be incredibly illuminating 💫
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton
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Published for the first time, here's Gillian Rose's lecture "Does Marx have a method?" –– with thanks to the Gillian Rose estate, @NoLuckLopez, @Mblaz39, and @Thesis11
https://t.co/vrpOXxOapK
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German youth is extremely polarized. The Left party has become the strongest party among young voters (under 25). The extreme right AfD is #2.
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Warm welcome to join a new reading group on "Making and Unmaking Natural Resources" convened by Anna Saunders and myself. 10am AEDT Tuesdays fortnightly from 11 March 2025, via Zoom (with winter break), email for link and readings! https://t.co/MfBUz1aGxd
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