Across Oceans of Law
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Across Oceans of Law
The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire
Mawani, Renisa
Duke University Press
10/2018
352
Mole
Inglês
9780822370352
15 a 20 dias
Renisa Mawani charts the story of the Komagata Maru-a steamship that left Hong Kong for Vancouver in 1914 carrying 376 Punjabi immigrants who were denied entry into Canada-to illustrate imperialism's racial, legal, spatial, and temporal dynamics and how oceans operate as sites of jurisdictional and colonial contest.
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
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Renisa Mawani charts the story of the Komagata Maru-a steamship that left Hong Kong for Vancouver in 1914 carrying 376 Punjabi immigrants who were denied entry into Canada-to illustrate imperialism's racial, legal, spatial, and temporal dynamics and how oceans operate as sites of jurisdictional and colonial contest.
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
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