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Ways of remembering : law, cinema and collective memory in the new India / Oishik Sircar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sircar, Oishik, author.
- Series:
- Law in context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslims--Violence against--India.
- Muslims.
- Gujarat Riots, India, 2002.
- Memorialization--India.
- Memorialization.
- Collective memory--India.
- Collective memory.
- Collective memory and motion pictures--India.
- Collective memory and motion pictures.
- Law in motion pictures.
- Islamophobia--India.
- Islamophobia.
- Ethnic conflict--India--Gujarat.
- Ethnic conflict.
- Minorities--Violence against--India--Gujarat.
- Minorities.
- Gujarat (India)--Ethnic relations.
- Gujarat (India).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 337 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Ways of Remembering tells a story about the relationship between secular law and religious violence by studying the memorialisation of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom-postcolonial India's most litigated and mediatized event of anti-Muslim mass violence. By reading judgments and films on the pogrom through a novel interpretive framework, the book argues that the shared narrative of law and cinema engenders ways of remembering the pogrom in which the rationality of secular law offers a resolution to the irrationality of religious violence. In the public's collective memory, the force of this rationality simultaneously condemns and normalises violence against Muslims while exonerating secular law from its role in enabling the pogrom, thus keeping the violent (legal) order against India's Muslim citizens intact. The book contends that in foregrounding law's aesthetic dimensions we see the discursive ways in which secular law organizes violence and presents itself as the panacea for that very violence"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Law and the aesthetics of atrocity
- A jurisdictional-aesthetic approach
- The Best Bakery judgments : aesthetics of judicial memory
- Bollywood's law : cinematic justice and collective memory
- 'As they ought'
- Glossary
- Cover
- Ways of Remembering
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Law and the Aesthetics of Atrocity
- Gujarat 2002: A 'Small' Retelling
- Law in/as Aesthetics
- New India
- Bollywood
- Collective Memory
- The Book Itself
- 2 A Jurisprudential-Aesthetic Approach
- Constituting the J-A Approach
- Minor Jurisprudence
- 'Narrative Compact'
- Cinema's Lawscape
- Law in/as Cinema
- Law in the Bollywood Aesthetic
- 3 The Best Bakery Judgments: Aesthetics of Judicial Memory
- The Best Bakery Case and Its Judgments
- Acquittal: The Vadodara Sessions Court Judgment
- Appeal: The Gujarat High Court Judgment
- Retrial: The First Supreme Court of India Judgment
- Conviction: The Second Supreme Court of India Judgment
- Judgment and Its Forms
- Judgment as Record
- Judgment as Image
- Judgment as Mnemohistory
- 4 Bollywood's Law: Cinematic Justice and Collective Memory
- 'Obiter Depicta'
- Dev: A Hindu Constitution
- Parzania: The Promise of Secular Law
- Kai Po Che: The Developmentalist Road to Justice
- 5 'As They Ought'
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024).
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9781009281928
- 1009281925
- 9781009072182
- 1009072188
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