Violence, Imagination, and Resistance : Socio-Legal Interrogations of Power / edited by Mariful Alam, Patrick Dwyer, and Katrin Roots.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alam, Mariful, editor.

Dwyer, Patrick (PhD candidate), editor.

Roots, Katrin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociological jurisprudence--Canada.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Power (Social sciences)--Canada.

Power (Social sciences).

Settler colonialism--Canada.

Settler colonialism.

Race discrimination--Canada.

Race discrimination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Athabasca, AB : AU Press, Athabasca University, [2023]

Summary:

Summary:"For some time, scholars have devoted considerable attention to the law as a force of repression, one that replicates and enforces structural inequalities through violence and legally sanctioned modes of punishment. But it is the means by which the law functions as a tool of governmentality that occupies the contributors to this volume. Through the exploration of how to deconstruct law's power, how to expose the violence the law produces, and finally how to identify modes of resistance that have transformative potential, these essays contribute to the ongoing interrogation of settler colonialism, racism, and structural violence in Canada."-- Provided by publisher.

This volume illustrates current socio-legal approaches to the study of the law as a key governing tactic and a form of power that creates and perpetuates systems of domination, notably white supremacy, settler colonialism, and heteronormative hegemony.

Much of the discussion of social transformation and resistance in socio-legal studies centres around the question of whether and how the law can be used to achieve practical change. However, the editors of this volume argue that it will never be possible to enact change through the law because it is inseparable from violence, be it metaphysical, social, or political. They posit that a “just world,” free from oppressive power relations, requires us to imagine communities where the state and its law cease to exist. Contributors address the underexplored questions of what alternatives to law could look like: how communities could organize their everyday lives, and how they could address social and interpersonal conflicts outside of an apparatus of violence. These essays contribute to the ongoing interrogation of settler colonialism, racism, and structural violence in Canada by demonstrating how to expose the violence the law produces, how to deconstruct law's power, and, finally, how to identify modes of resistance that have transformative potential.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Socio-legal Perspectives on Law's Violence

Part I Lawfare and Settler Colonialism

1. Race and Colonialism in Socio-legal Studies in Canada

2. Jurisfiction and Other Settler-Colonial Legal Imaginaries

Part II Gendered Violence and Racial Subjugation

3. Making Terrorism: Security Practices and the Production of Terror Activities in Canada

4. Law, Gendered Violence, and Justice: Critically Engaging #MeToo

5. Through Different Lenses: Legality, Humanitarianism, and the Western Gaze

Part III Resistance and Social Transformation

6. Practicing Freedom of Information as "Feral Law" and Advancing Research Methods in Socio-legal Studies

7. Far from the Madding Crowds: Redefining the Field of Socio-legal Studies from Within

Afterword: Toward the Law of Anti-laws: Notes on Prefigurative Politics and Radical Imaginations

Contributors

Cover

7. Far from the Madding Crowds: Redefining the Field of Socio-legal Studies from Within.

Afterword: Toward the Law of Anti-laws: Notes on Prefigurative Politics and Radical Imaginations

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-77199-366-9

OCLC:

1380463375