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1 - The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Sustainable Development

from Part I - Mise en Scène

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah
Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
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Chapter 1 is a discussion of the scope of the concept of sustainable development. It examines the multiple dimensions of the concept and how these different angles to this concept have contributed to both its advance and decline in the law. This conceptual challenge accounted for the concept’s poor meaning and considerably poor performance. This chapter also provides insights into theoretical and methodological considerations underpinning this book, including the choice of Africa as the pivot of analysis and Third World Approaches to International Law as a scholarly approach.

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compromiseGramsciEurocentrismconceptualisationeffective implementationnon-WesternThird World Approaches to International Lawreimaginingresistancehegemony
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Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies , pp. 21 - 48
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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