Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities

Moyukh Chatterjee

Published by Duke University Press 2023

Composing Violence

The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities

Moyukh Chatterjee

In the series Theory in Forms

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478024293

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Examining the 2002 pogrom in which Hindu mobs attached Muslims in the west Indian state of Gujuarat, Moyukh Chatterjee examines how political violence against minorities catalyzes radical changes in law, public culture, and power.

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Moyukh Chatterjee is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Edinburgh.

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"It is through scholarship of the kind offered by Composing Violence that we can grapple with questions of mass violence, impunity and justice after violence in South Asia, and beyond, in any meaningful way."

-- Chulani Kodikara Social and Legal Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION: THE LIMITS OF EXPOSURE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. A Minor Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
2. Composing the Archive Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
3. Against the Witness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
4. Anti-Impunity Activism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
5. Beyond the Unspeakable Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
CONCLUSION. MINOR, MINORITIES, MINORITIZATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 184

eBook

Published: January 20, 2023
ISBN: 9781478024293