Law, Femicide, and Countercolonial-Feminist Praxis

This book unearths the buried legacies of modern legal thought, exposing femicide’s entanglements with colonialism, Black Atlantic slavery, and their enduring afterlives, while forging countercolonial pathways to justice. In the wake of Marielle Franco’s assassination – a Black feminist city councilor murdered in Rio de Janeiro in 2018 – and amid the global resurgence of far-right authoritarianism, the entanglements of femicide, White supremacy, misogyny, and colonial juridico-political architec