Susan Marks’ Foreword asks ‘If the World is a Household, What Form of Household Is It?’. It’s a provocative query for worldwide attorneys, because the trope of the household runs via the self-discipline in all types of advanced, even contradictory, methods. On this episode, Janne Nijman (Graduate Institute & College of Amsterdam) interviews Susan Marks (LSE) about her Foreword and the bigger challenge it inaugurates. Their dialog ranges throughout the three ‘instances’ featured within the Foreword—the human household in human rights legislation, the ‘household of countries’, and the kid as future in local weather change debates—and past. What are the stakes of using these familial tropes? What do they provide and what may they masks? What different discourses or imaginaries may be accessible?
