ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the logistics of participation as a backstage practice of international law's knowledge production. Here, logistics of participation refers to the material conditions of possibility of part-taking. This chapter ties together seemingly dispersed threads of argument in order to reveal how and through what practices scholars of the South are overburdened to participate and, as a result, how Western academia retains its hegemonic presence in knowledge production of international law. The main focus of this chapter is the global visa regime as the most materially tangible technology of impeding the participation of scholars of the South in the scholarly events of international law. And the exorbitant cost of institutional access to online databases and e-journals. It is argued that the these factors, alongside others, determine the composition of international law events, limits diversity of expressions and experiences and subsequently shapes international law by delimiting the scope of the thinkable in the discipline.
