Afterword: Antony Anghie and His Critics
TWAIL and Alternative Visions: ‘Talking About a Revolution’: Afterword to the Foreword by Antony Anghie
Abstract
This Afterward is in response to an invitation by EJIL to engage with Tony Anghie’s Foreword in the same journal entitled ‘Rethinking International Law: A TWAIL Retrospective’. I join in conversation with Anghie to further expand and amplify the redemptive potential of TWAIL, through a focus on human rights. I tease out and amplify a robust account of what constitutes an ‘alternative vision’ found in TWAIL as an epistemological inquiry that reflects a yearning to break free of the Eurocentric discourses that continue to structure human rights and the human subject. It also draws attention to the transformative and revolutionary vision of the project available in the aftermath of the critiques of traditional international law.