Lys Kulamadayil (Geneva Graduate Institute), Tor Krever (LSE Law School), and Praggya Surana (Geneva Graduate Institute), Introduction: Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times — International Law, Critique and Structural Change, in Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times: International Law, Critique, and Structural Change (Hart Publishing, forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Social Hierarchies is a collective project, its origins lying in conversations between the editors towards the end of 2022. We shared concerns about international law’s ability or even usefulness in confronting the structures constitutive of a social and planetary order prone to producing crisis and catastrophe at different scales, but found that the intellectual traditions in which our concerns were rooted differed. Consequently, so too did our views on what specific structural change was required or how to achieve that change – although we certainly agreed change was urgently needed, be it in the ways that we produce and trade food, relate to the environment, value work, approach diversity and difference, or respond to disaster. Rather than shying away from contention, we embraced our non-alignment as generative potential for creating a collective and collaborative space.
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