Elsa Dorlin

Is violent self-defence ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, and capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies "worthy of defending" and those who have been disarmed and rendered defenceless. In 1685, for example, France's infamous "Code Noir" forbade slaves from carrying weapons, under penalty of the whip. In nineteenth-century Algeria, the colonial state outlawed the...