Much of the discussion of social transformation and resistance in socio-legal studies centres around the question of whether and how the law can be used to achieve practical change. However, the editors of this volume argue that it will never be possible to enact change through the law because it is inseparable from violence, be it metaphysical, social, or political. They posit that a “just world,” free from oppressive power relations, requires us to imagine communities where the state and its law cease to exist. Contributors address the underexplored questions of what alternatives to law could look like: how communities could organize their everyday lives, and how they could address social and interpersonal conflicts outside of an apparatus of violence. These essays contribute to the ongoing interrogation of settler colonialism, racism, and structural violence in Canada by demonstrating how to expose the violence the law produces, how to deconstruct law’s power, and, finally, how to identify modes of resistance that have transformative potential.
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- Mariful Alam, Patrick Dwyer, and Katrin Roots
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Half Title 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- Acknowledgements 12
- Introduction: Socio-legal Perspectives on Law’s Violence 16
- Part I Lawfare and Settler Colonialism 48
- 1. Race and Colonialism in Socio-legal Studies in Canada 50
- 2. Jurisfiction and Other Settler-Colonial Legal Imaginaries 74
- Part II Gendered Violence and Racial Subjugation 94
- 3. Making Terrorism: Security Practices and the Production of Terror Activities in Canada 96
- 4. Law, Gendered Violence, and Justice: Critically Engaging #MeToo 122
- 5. Through Different Lenses: Legality, Humanitarianism, and the Western Gaze 146
- Part III Resistance and Social Transformation 166
- 6. Practicing Freedom of Information as “Feral Law” and Advancing Research Methods in Socio-legal Studies 168
- 7. Far from the Madding Crowds: Redefining the Field of Socio-legal Studies from Within 188
- Afterword: Toward the Law of Anti-laws: Notes on Prefigurative Politics and Radical Imaginations 220
- Contributors 228
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- Cover 1
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- Acknowledgements 12
- Introduction: Socio-legal Perspectives on Law’s Violence 16
- Part I Lawfare and Settler Colonialism 48
- 1. Race and Colonialism in Socio-legal Studies in Canada 50
- 2. Jurisfiction and Other Settler-Colonial Legal Imaginaries 74
- Part II Gendered Violence and Racial Subjugation 94
- 3. Making Terrorism: Security Practices and the Production of Terror Activities in Canada 96
- 4. Law, Gendered Violence, and Justice: Critically Engaging #MeToo 122
- 5. Through Different Lenses: Legality, Humanitarianism, and the Western Gaze 146
- Part III Resistance and Social Transformation 166
- 6. Practicing Freedom of Information as “Feral Law” and Advancing Research Methods in Socio-legal Studies 168
- 7. Far from the Madding Crowds: Redefining the Field of Socio-legal Studies from Within 188
- Afterword: Toward the Law of Anti-laws: Notes on Prefigurative Politics and Radical Imaginations 220
- Contributors 228
