Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities - Couverture souple

Chatterjee, Moyukh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1478019662 ISBN 13 : 9781478019664

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2023

Synopsis

In 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television, left more than one thousand dead. In Composing Violence Moyukh Chatterjee examines how highly visible political violence against minorities acts as a catalyst for radical changes in law, public culture, and power. He shows that, far from being quashed through its exposure by activists, media, and politicians, state-sanctioned anti-Muslim violence set the stage for transforming India into a Hindu supremacist state. The state's and civil society's responses to the violence, Chatterjee contends, reveal the constitutive features of modern democracy in which riots and pogroms are techniques to produce a form of society based on a killable minority and a triumphant majority. Focusing on courtroom procedures, police archives, legal activism, and mainstream media coverage, Chatterjee theorizes violence as a form of governance that creates minority populations. By tracing the composition of anti-Muslim violence and the legal structures that transform that violence into the making of minorities and majorities, Chatterjee demonstrates that violence is intrinsic to liberal democracy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Moyukh Chatterjee is a Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology in the University of Edinburgh.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478019662
• ISBN 13: 9781478019664
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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