{"id":4510,"date":"2021-03-30T17:59:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T21:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:59:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T21:59:02","slug":"chalmers-on-how-clothes-maketh-the-man-mimesis-laughter-and-the-colonial-rule-of-law-iilah_unimelb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/30\/chalmers-on-how-clothes-maketh-the-man-mimesis-laughter-and-the-colonial-rule-of-law-iilah_unimelb\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalmers on How Clothes Maketh the Man: Mimesis, Laughter, and the Colonial Rule of Law @IILAH_UniMelb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Chalmers, Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH), Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne, has published <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3769758&amp;dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law:culture:ejournal_abstractlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clothes Maketh the Man: Mimesis, Laughter, and the Colonial Rule of Law<\/a> at<br \/>\nShane Chalmers, &#8216;Clothes Maketh the Man: Mimesis, Laughter, and the Colonial Rule of Law&#8217;, 2 Index: Griffith Law Review 84 (2020).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This article ventures into the mythology of modern law, through the artwork of Anglo-Australian artist S T Gill, to interrogate the concept of equality that both promises and is the promise of \u201cthe rule of law\u201d. The scene is colonial Australia in the mid-nineteenth century. The call is Governor Arthur\u2019s Proclamation to the Aboriginal People (c1830), a proclamation that both illustrates and enacts the promise of the rule of law. The response is Gill\u2019s Native Dignity (1860), a painting that plays on the racialised and racist contradictions within the promise (of equality, of the rule of law). By offering a histrionic reading of Native Dignity \u2013 a reading that focuses on the figure of the histrio, whose role it is, traditionally, to represent society\u2019s mythologies through burlesque \u2013 the article offers a new reading of Gill\u2019s artwork that thickens our understanding of the role of clothing, laughter and the rule of law in colonial and anti-colonial Australia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the article from SSRN at the link. The author notes that a longer version of the article is available as Shane Chalmers, Native Dignity, Griffith Law Review (2019).<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Chalmers, Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH), Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne, has published Clothes Maketh the Man: Mimesis, Laughter, and the Colonial Rule of Law at Shane Chalmers,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[639,547,132],"class_list":["post-4510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-humanities","tag-international-law-and-the-humanities","tag-law-and-humanities","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1aK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4511,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions\/4511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}