Law Text Culture

Contents

• Sunday Flea Market, New York - Efrat Arbel
• Facts, Not Opinions - Efrat Arbel
• Editor's Introduction: challenging nation - Catherine Dauvergne and W. Wesley Pue
• Koori Court Victoria: Magistrates Court (Koori Court) Act 2002 - Kate Auty and Daniel Briggs
• The Proclamation Island moment: Making Antarctica Australian - Christy Collis
• Fabricating legalities of state in the imperial west: The social work of the courthouse in late Victorian and Edwardian British Columbia - Rhodri Winsdor Lidcombe
• The idea of the constitutional state and global society - Anna Yeatman
• The Peronist and the ghost in the state of Australia - Ian Duncanson
• Law, Nation and (imagined) international communities - Ruth Buchanan and Sundhya Pahuja

• Heteronomy as the challenge to nation: a critique of the collective and of individual rights - John R Moss
• Protecting indigenous knowledge in international law: solidarity beyond the nation-state - Chidi Oguamanam
• Rapunzel and the lure of equal citizenship - Margaret Thornton
• We know what it is when you do not ask us': The unchallengeable nation - Peter Fitzpatrick
• Ecumenical accompanier Matt Robson photographs the 8-metre-high separation fence' at the Palestinian town of Qalqilya, 2003 - Paul Jeffrey/Action by Churches Together
• A soldier serving with Number 1 Company 1 st Battalion, of The Irish Guards pauses 3 April 2003, after a successful raid on a large complex on the outskirts of Basra, Iraq - Giles Penfound

Volume 8 of Law Text Culture is a special issue on the theme of Challenging Nation , under the joint editorship of Catherine Dauvergne and Wes Pue of the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia.

This issue focuses on the role of the "nation" as symbol, construct, event and actor, drawing on historical insights and postcolonial perspectives as well as focusing on urgent contemporary issues. With this call for works we are seeking to complement and build on a core of contributions developed from papers and commentaries presented in the interdisciplinary Challenging Nation speaker series at the University of British Columbia in 2003-04.

The idea of nation that has suffused the history of "the west" and its colonies for four hundred years is at once deeply political, raced, gendered and spaced. Nation stands at once as a positive, encompassing symbol of solidarity transcending the fractiousness of smaller groups but also as a force for exclusion, xenophobia, and aggression. Contemporary challenges to nation arise on both fronts. In the age of "globalisation" it stands simultaneously for parochialism and for "locality".

Guest Editors:

Dr. Catherine Dauvergne, Canada Research Chair, Migration Law, Faculty of Law, UBC e-mail dauvergne@law.ubc.ca
Web: http://www.law.ubc.ca/faculty/dauvergne/

Dr. W. Wesley Pue, Nemetz Chair in Legal History, Faculty of Law, UBC, e-mail pue@law.ubc.ca
Web: http://www.law.ubc.ca/faculty/pue/