Renisa Mawani

Across Oceans of Law

The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Renisa Mawani charts the story of the Komagata Maruâ a steamship that left Hong Kong for Vancouver in 1914 carrying 376 Punjabi immigrants who were denied entry into Canadaâ to illustrate imperialism's racial, legal, spatial, and temporal dynamics and how oceans operate as sites of jurisdictional and colonial contest.

Produktdetails

• Global and Insurgent Legalities
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780822370352
• ISBN-10: 0822370352
• Artikelnr.: 50201919

Autorenporträt

Renisa Mawani

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Currents and Countercurrents of Law and Radicalism  1
1. The Free Sea: A Juridical Space  35
2. The Ship as Legal Person  73
3. Land, Sea, and Subjecthood  115
4. Anticolonial Vernaculars of Indigeneity  152
5. The Fugitive Sojourns of Gurdit Singh  188
Epilogue. Race, Jurisdiction, and the Free Sea Reconsidered  231
Notes  241
Bibliography  293
Index  319