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Radha D'Souza

Radha D’Souza is a Professor of International Law, Development and Conflict Studies at the University of Westminster (UK). Before joining the University of Westminster in early 2007, she taught law at University of Waikato in New Zealand, and development studies, sociology and human geography at the University of Auckland. She practiced law in the High Court of Mumbai in the areas of labour rights, constitutional and administrative law, public interest litigation and human rights.

D’Souza works as a writer, critic and commentator. She is a social justice activist and worked with labour movements and democratic rights movements in her home country of India as an organizer and activist lawyer. She has worked with social justice movements in the Asia-Pacific region to focus attention on the effects of international economic policies on developing countries.

D’Souza has a BA in philosophy from Elphinstone College (University of Mumbai) and a LLB from New Law College (University of Mumbai), and she completed her PhD in Geography at the University of Auckland. She is the author of What’s Wrong with Rights? (Pluto, 2018) and Interstate Disputes Over Krishna Waters (Orient Longman, 2006) and works with the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) in the UK.

Together with artist Jonas Staal curated the exhibition Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (2021-2022) commissioned and produced by Framer Framed, Amsterdam. They co-edited the book, The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes. Published by Framer Framed, the book is available to buy online now, or in the Framer Framed bookshop.

Radha D’Souza, Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (2021), © Ruben Hamelink / Framer Framed

Links

• Korean Times - Bringing climate crimes to court
• AI Murmurings - Imaginaries of the Deep Present
• Texte zur Kunst - Tobias Dias on Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
• 'What's Wrong With Rights?' by Radha D'Souza from Pluto Press

Exhibitions

5 Apr – 30 Jul 2023

Exhibition: CICC Gwangju Biennale - Extinction Wars

An exhibition of the CICC at the Netherlands Pavilion of the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, commissioned and produced by Framer Framed.

18 Nov – 1 Jan 2023

Exhibition: CICC Seoul - The Law on Trial

A new iteration of the project Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) at the Oil Tank Culture Park in Seoul, South Korea.

25 Sep – 13 Feb 2022

Exhibition: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes

A project by Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal

Agenda

Magazine

Bookshop Selection / CICC / Subversive Publishing /

From Archiving to Publishing: Framer Framed's 'New Social'

CICC / Bookshop Selection / Ecology /

Bookshop Selection: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes

CICC / Southeast Asia /

CICC: Extinction Wars selected by Monthly Art for exhibition award

CICC / Ecology / Art and Activism / East Asia /

Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The Law on Trial

CICC / Ecology / Extractivism / Art and Activism /

Report: The CICC, a DIY Court for Climate Crimes

/ CICC / Ecology / Art and Activism / Political Climate /

Digital Archive: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes

CICC / Ecology / Colonial history / Art and Activism /

Errant Journal: A conversation between Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal

CICC / Ecology /

"Nature is not an object of property, but subject of rights"

CICC / Ecology / Colonial history /

The climate crisis is a colonial crisis - by Roos van der Lint

Art and Activism / Action Research / Crisis Imaginaries / Ecology / Planetary Poetics /

Climate and Environmental Activism - #ActivismArchive

CICC / Ecology /

The Intergenerational Climate Crimes Act

Bookshop Selection / CICC /

Bookshop selection: What's Wrong with Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations

Ecology / CICC / Art and Activism / Political Climate /

Announcement: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes

Ecology / CICC /

Irene de Craen on Errant Journal's second issue 'Slow Violence'