Violence, Imagination, and Resistance

Socio-Legal Interrogations of Power

Edited by Mariful Alam, Patrick Dwyer, and Katrin Roots
Categories: Law & Legal Studies, Law & Society
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Paperback : 9781778290022, 204 pages, May 2023
Ebook (PDF) : 9781771993661, 230 pages, May 2023
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781771993678, 230 pages, May 2023

Description

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.