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Violent Modernities - Cultural Lives of Law in the New India (Hardcover)
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Violent Modernities - Cultural Lives of Law in the New India (Hardcover)
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Law and violence are thought to share an antithetical relationship
in postcolonial modernity. Violence is considered the other of law,
lawlessness is understood to produce violence, and law is invoked
and deployed to undo the violence of lawlessness. Violent
Modernities uses a critical legal perspective to show that law and
violence in the New India share a deep intimacy, where one
symbiotically feeds the other. Researched and written between 2008
and 2018, the chapters study the cultural sites of literature,
cinema, people's movements, popular media and the university to
illustrate how law's promises of emancipation and performances of
violence live a life of entangled contradictions. The book
foregrounds reparative and ethical accounts where law does not only
inhabit courtrooms, legislations and judgments, but also lives in
the quotidian and minor practices of disobediences, uncertainties,
vulnerabilities, double binds and failures. When the cultural lives
of law are reimagined as such, the book argues, the violence at the
foundations of modern law in the postcolony begins to unravel.
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