An interview with sneja gunew by christopher lee and renisa mawani, journal of intercultural studies, 405, 638647. Crossracial encounters and juridical truths in british columbia, 18711921 law and society mawani, renisa on. Komagata maru left hong kong for vancouver carrying 376 punjabi. Encounters between aboriginal peoples, european colonists, chinese migrants, and mixedrace populations produced racial anxieties that underwrote crossracial interactions in the salmon canneries. Renisa mawani is associate professor of sociology at the university of british columbia. The handbook of law and society wiley online books. Towards the ocean as archive oxford handbooks online archival legal history. In this special issue of theory and society, contributors from ancient history, anthropology, and sociology examine the book s broader intellectual. The rise and fall of moral conflicts in the united states and canada. The archival turn has followed a long, protracted, and spiraled trajectory through the fields of history, historical anthropology, philosophy, and literary studies. The journal encourages a decolonial and nonorientalist approach to the analysis of the historical and contemporary political, socioeconomic, and cultural processes constitutive of the islamicate in its. Drawing on oceans as methoda mode of thinking and writing that repositions land and sea mawani examines the historical and conceptual stakes of situating histories of indian migration within maritime worlds.
On law as a temporalizing force in colonial contexts, see renisa mawani, law as temporality. Read juridical encounters online, read in mobile or kindle. Law and society, historical methods, social and cultural theory, sociology of knowledge and culture, political philosophies of law and. Patricia ewick is professor of sociology at clark university. Renisa mawani is professor of sociology and chair of the law and society program at the university of british columbia. Renisa mawani is professor of sociology at the university of british columbia and author of. She is currently professor in the department of sociology at the university of british columbia and recurring chair of the law and society program. Renisa mawani professor chair, law and society program department of sociology, anso 2315. Encounters among aboriginal peoples, european colonists, chinese migrants, and mixedrace populations generated a range of racial anxieties that underwrote colonialism in bc. The first book with the term sociology in its title was written in the mid19th century by the english philosopher herbert spencer.
We begin by sketching how mills bifocal vision of the translation between the closeup perspective on personal. Towards the ocean as archive renisa mawani the oxford handbook of legal history edited by markus d. This was explained by a few of the members who argued that shorty had made several statements such as the victim, who was a pan african, was a fake person. Faculty associate, peter wall institute for advanced studies, the institute for race, gender, sexuality. This article commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the sociological imagination by recalling, renewing and updating c. Law without the state as law without violence 433 julieta lemaitre. Whereas go makes important contributions to critiques of exceptionalism, his analytic approach reveals the limits.
Download laws dream of a common knowledge the cultural lives of law ebook free in pdf and epub format. All books are in clear copy here, and all files are secure so dont worry about it. Writing of the us context, lowe argues that asians have been historically and materially crucial in. Instant access to millions of titles from our library and its free to try. Her most recent book across oceans of law is to be published by duke university. Disease, globalization and security, 1850 to the present. Mawani illustrates how interracial proximities in one colonial contact zone inspired the production of juridical racial truths and modes of governance that continue to linger. Please be sure to download and or print copies of the weekly readings, as we. Over empires and oceans book download ebook pdf, epub.
Laws archive is a site from which law derives its meanings, authority, and legitimacy, a proliferation of documents that obscures its originary violence and its ongoing force, and a trace that holds the potential to reveal its foundations as illegitimate. In february 2012, she gave a lecture specters of indigeneity in british indian migration, 1914 at the portland center for public humanities. Dubber and christopher tomlins print publication date. Moving beyond traditional narratives of aboriginaleuropean contact and chineseeuropean relations, renisa mawani probes the unsettled landscape of crossracial encounters between indians and chinese in british columbia history. The sociological imagination and its imperial shadows thomas m. Department of sociology, university of british columbia, vancouver, bc v6t 1z1 canada. By reading his body of work all together, as part of a much larger whole. Wright mills pledge to expand a politically aware, selfreflective and publicly accessible intellectual culture between aestheticism and scientism. Renisa mawani is associate professor of sociology and chair of the law and. Residual sovereignty and the legal foundations of the british empire in india, law, culture and. Reorient is dedicated to rethinking those entities and events considered to lie outside the conceptuality of western hegemony, culturally, geopolitically and philosophically.
In across oceans of law renisa mawani retells this wellknown story of the komagata maru. Instant download for the best ebooks with top categories ranging from business to self development, internet, health, marketing and more. The oxford handbook of legal history edited by markus d. Crossracial encounters and juridical truths in british columbia, 18711921. By focusing on these points of contact, this book forges critical links between histories of.
Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. She is currently professor in the department of sociology at the university of british columbia and recurring chair of. She is the coauthor of the common place of law 1998 and social science, social policy and law 1999. She works in the fields of critical theory and colonial legal history. She is the author of colonial proximities 2009 and coeditor of the travels of law. Renisa mawani university of british columbia academia. Rare books and special collections stoler, colonial archives and the arts of governance. Renisa mawani tells the story of the 1914 voyage of the. Download product flyer is to download pdf in new tab. Renisa mawani is professor, sociology at the university of british columbia. To appreciate fully pattersons contributions to sociology, comparative historical sociology, and the wider literature on slavery, readers must engage with the full corpus of his scholarly production.
Pdf the sociological imagination and its imperial shadows. The komagata maru and jurisdiction in the time of empire. His books include dealing in virtue 1996, the internationalization of palace wars. Longrange continuities in comparative and historical sociology. Renisa mawani at university of british columbia vancouver. Mawani has a phd from the centre for criminology and sociolegal studies at the university of toronto. Patterns of empire is an ambitious and challenging book that places sociology at the heart of angloimperial history. Introduction to sociology this version of the book is current as of. The 201920 cotterrell lecture in sociological jurisprudence will be delivered by professor renisa mawani university of british columbia. Download oceans of time pdf epub, mobi ebooks without registration on our website. Society must be defended available for download and read online in other formats. The komagata maru and jurisdiction in the time of empire global and insurgent legalities. Dr renisa mawani assistant professor of sociology, department of anthropology and sociology. The university of british columbia mawani fall 2019 1 sociology 383.
Renisa mawani, from slave revolts to social death philpapers. Click download or read online button to get over empires and oceans book book now. Rare books and special collections stoler, colonial archives and. Animated by the cultural turn and shaped by the challenges of poststructuralism, subaltern, and postcolonial studies, critics have formulated historys archive not solely as a repository of sources through which to retrieve andor. The reissue of orlando pattersons slavery and social death provides an opportunity to reflect on developments in studies of slavery, postcolonial sociology, and comparativehistorical sociology since the book s initial release in 1982. We then continue this conversation by examining the arguments she made in the 2012 article laws archive, which examines the available means to archive law within the collective narrative that the archive constitute.
Read laws dream of a common knowledge the cultural lives of law online, read in mobile or kindle. Pdf colonial proximities download full pdf book download. In this podcast, renisa mawani introduces her current work that uses the migrant ship komagata maru to address migration within its legal and temporal dimensions. Renisa mawani, university of british columbia, sociology department, faculty member. Ubc press colonial proximities crossracial encounters. Download file to see previous pages the killer, a man named shorty, had apparently killed another man and in the current case he seemed to have continually planned for the murder.
The komagata maru and jurisdiction in the time of empire global and insurgent legalities mawani, renisa on. Indian ocean itineraries renisa mawani and iza hussin i believe that no country ever stood so much in need of a code of laws as india. Download juridical encounters ebook free in pdf and epub format. Colonial proximities download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. The book highlights the legal and spatial strategies of rule mobilized by indian agents, missionaries, and legal authorities who sought to restrict crossracial encounters. Renisa mawani is associate professor of sociology at ubc and cochair of the law and society program. In her book immigrant acts, lisa lowe problematises this tension between the demands of a capitalist economy and the making of a national culture.
Mawani s essay reads julian gos patterns of empire through the politics of comparison and through a shared intellectual commitment to a postcolonial sociology. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. The sociological imagination and its imperial shadows. Pdf society must be defended download full pdf book. Download pdf society must be defended book full free. Kemple and renisa mawani theory culture society 2009. Pdf laws dream of a common knowledge the cultural lives. Ronit dinovitzer is associate professor of sociology at the university of toronto and faculty fellow at the american bar foundation. Click download or read online button to get colonial proximities book now. Read download colonial proximities pdf pdf download. Renisa mawani has a phd from the centre for criminology and sociolegal studies at the university of toronto. The komagata maru and jurisdiction in the time of empire by renisa mawani.