RT Book
T1 Ways of remembering: law, cinema and collective memory in the new India
T2 Law in context
A1 Sircar, Oishik
LA English
PP Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Melbourne, Australia New Delhi, India Songapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1883252091
AB "Ways of Remembering tells a story about the relationship between secular law and religious violence by studying the memorialisation of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom-postcolonial India's most litigated and mediatized event of anti-Muslim mass violence. By reading judgments and films on the pogrom through a novel interpretive framework, the book argues that the shared narrative of law and cinema engenders ways of remembering the pogrom in which the rationality of secular law offers a resolution to the irrationality of religious violence. In the public's collective memory, the force of this rationality simultaneously condemns and normalises violence against Muslims while exonerating secular law from its role in enabling the pogrom, thus keeping the violent (legal) order against India's Muslim citizens intact. The book contends that in foregrounding law's aesthetic dimensions we see the discursive ways in which secular law organizes violence and presents itself as the panacea for that very violence"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN DS432.M84
SN 9781316512814
K1 Muslims : Violence against : India
K1 Gujarat Riots, India, 2002
K1 Memorialization : India
K1 Collective Memory : India
K1 Collective memory and motion pictures : India
K1 Law in motion pictures
K1 Islamophobia : India
K1 Ethnic conflict : India : Gujarat
K1 Minorities : Violence against : India : Gujarat
K1 Gujarat (India) : Ethnic relations
K1 Gujarat : Hindu : Muslim : Unruhen : Kollektives Gedächtnis : Islamfeindlichkeit : Recht : Film