Renisa Mawani
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 190502 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Renisa Mawani |
| PRENOMES | Renisa |
| SOBRENOME | Mawani |
| ASSINATURA | MAWANI R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 163 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Legal Personhood at Sea
In the scholarship on legal personhood, corporations have received significant attention. Beginning with oceans and maritime worlds, I offer a related, though often overlooked, history of legal personhood through the movements of the British merchant ship. As imperial technologies and juridical forms, these vessels facilitated imperial expansion, colonial dispossession, and racial enslavement. Through the projection and realization of imperial am…
The British Indian Question in Natal
Arts, Faculty of
Nadine El-Enany
Navigating Colonial Law in a “Sea of Islands”
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Animalia
Introduction
C is for Cattle
Unmooring the Komagata Maru
Worlds at Home
The rise in anti-migrant xenophobia, Islamophobia, and so-called populist nationalism in recent years has demonstrated the consequential effects of colonialism, nationalism, and globalisation in ou
Worlds at Home
Christopher Lee and Renisa Mawani interviewed Sneja Gunew, on the occasion of the publication of her book Post-multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators (Anthem Press, 2017). The intervie
From slave revolts to social death
Archival Legal History
Archives and historical records are central to histories of law and legality. Themes and debates in legal history have been shaped, and in some cases even determined by the availability of and access to archival sources. Despite growing critiques of archives as partial, incomplete, and uneven sites of power/ knowledge, ‘the archive’ continues to operate as a site of retrieval and recuperation in legal history. This chapter builds on and expands t…
Law, Settler Colonialism, and “the Forgotten Space” of Maritime Worlds
Law and settler colonialism is not a self-evident, contained, or straightforward field of inquiry. Rather, it uneasily straddles two overlapping bodies of scholarship: legal histories of colonialism and settler colonial studies. In part one, I place these literatures into conversation to trace their contributions, overlaps, and incommensurabilities. In part two, I turn to maritime worlds as a method of speaking across their analytic divides. Here…
Insects, War, Plastic Life
Renisa Mawani, “Insects, War, Plastic Life,” in Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou, ed. Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, 159–87. Copyright 2015, Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the copyright holder and the publisher. www.dukeupress.edu
The Times of Law
In this essay, I situate Kunal Parker's Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790–1900 , within a broader set of intellectual currents engaged with questions of time and temporality. Although Parker's book centers on the common law and history and develops specific conceptions of time, in so doing, he invites legal historians and legal scholars to ruminate on the times of law, particularly the temporal relations that law has with itself…
Juridical Humanity
Reviewed by: Juridical Humanity: A colonial history by Samera Esmeir Renisa Mawani Juridical Humanity: A colonial history By Samera Esmeir. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Samera Esmeir’s Juridical Humanity is a significant addition to the expanding literature on law, violence and colonialism. Focused on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Egypt and examining British reforms over animal welfare, women’s and prisoner’s rights, …
Patterns of Empire and the Politics of Comparison
Mawani’s essay reads Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire through the politics of comparison and through a shared intellectual commitment to a postcolonial sociology. Patterns of Empire is an ambitious and challenging book that places sociology at the heart of Anglo-imperial history. Whereas Go makes important contributions to critiques of exceptionalism, his analytic approach reveals the limits of comparative historical sociology. Mawani asks to what …
The Travels of Law
I believe that no country ever stood so much in need of a code of laws as India; and I believe also that there never was a country in which the want might so easily be supplied. I said that there were many points of analogy between the state of that country after the fall of the Mogul power, and the state of Europe after the fall of the Roman empire. In one respect the analogy is very striking. As there were in Europe then, so there are in India …
Law's Archive
The archival turn has followed a long, protracted, and spiraled trajectory through the fields of history, historical anthropology, philosophy, and literary studies. Animated by the cultural turn and shaped by the challenges of poststructuralism, subaltern, and postcolonial studies, critics have formulated history's archive not solely as a repository of sources through which to retrieve and/or assemble the past but as an uneven effect of power and…
Racial Violence and the Cosmopolitan City
In this paper I argue that cosmopolitanisms, as visions of living with difference, and race and racisms, as political regimes of subjection and subjectification, are mutually constitutive. Although scholars have made similar claims regarding earlier versions of cosmopolitanisms, developed largely from the work of Immanuel Kant, recent proponents have conceptualized their renewed formulations, detached from Eurocentric histories and newly expanded…
Specters of Indigeneity in British-Indian Migration, 1914
Colonial legal histories of indigeneity and British-Indian migration have not often been placed in conversation with one another. This article pursues such a project by tracing indigeneity as a spectral presence that emerged with uneven regularity in juridico-political conflicts over British-Indian migration. Specifically, I focus on the 1914 journey of the Komagata Maru, a Japanese steamship carrying 376 Punjabi migrants that sailed from Hong Ko…
Roundtable on Eve Darian-Smith, Religion, Race, Rights
Colonial Proximities
Real and imagined encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations produced racial anxieties that underwrote crossracial contacts in the salmon canneries, the illicit liquor trade, and the (white) slavery scare in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia. Colonial Proximities explores the legal and spatial strategies of rule deployed by Indian agents, missionaries, and lega…
Half-breeds,' racial opacity, and geographies of crime
Discussions of hybridity have proliferated in cultural geography and in social and cultural theory. What has often been missing from these accounts are the ways in which mixed-race identities have been forged, contested, and embodied spatially. Inspired by recent calls in cultural geography to rematerialize race and drawing from the growing literature on law and geography, this article examines the material dimensions of hybridity, how it was leg…
The Sociological Imagination and its Imperial Shadows
This article commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of The Sociological Imagination by recalling, renewing and updating C. Wright Mills' pledge to expand a politically aware, self-reflective and publicly accessible intellectual culture between aestheticism and scientism. We begin by sketching how Mills' 'bifocal' vision of the translation between the close-up perspective on personal milieus and the longer view of social structures contrasts with r…
Specters of Indigeneity in British-Indian Migration, 1914
Colonial legal histories of indigeneity and British-Indian migration have not often been placed in conversation with one another. This article pursues such a project by tracing indigeneity as a spectral presence that emerged with uneven regularity in juridico-political conflicts over British-Indian migration. Specifically, I focus on the 1914 journey of the Komagata Maru, a Japanese steamship carrying 376 Punjabi migrants that sailed from Hong Ko…
The Travels of Law
I believe that no country ever stood so much in need of a code of laws as India; and I believe also that there never was a country in which the want might so easily be supplied. I said that there were many points of analogy between the state of that country after the fall of the Mogul power, and the state of Europe after the fall of the Roman empire. In one respect the analogy is very striking. As there were in Europe then, so there are in India …
The Sociological Imagination and its Imperial Shadows
This article commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of The Sociological Imagination by recalling, renewing and updating C. Wright Mills' pledge to expand a politically aware, self-reflective and publicly accessible intellectual culture between aestheticism and scientism. We begin by sketching how Mills' 'bifocal' vision of the translation between the close-up perspective on personal milieus and the longer view of social structures contrasts with r…
Law, Settler Colonialism, and “the Forgotten Space” of Maritime Worlds
Law and settler colonialism is not a self-evident, contained, or straightforward field of inquiry. Rather, it uneasily straddles two overlapping bodies of scholarship: legal histories of colonialism and settler colonial studies. In part one, I place these literatures into conversation to trace their contributions, overlaps, and incommensurabilities. In part two, I turn to maritime worlds as a method of speaking across their analytic divides. Here…
Colonial Proximities
Real and imagined encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations produced racial anxieties that underwrote crossracial contacts in the salmon canneries, the illicit liquor trade, and the (white) slavery scare in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia. Colonial Proximities explores the legal and spatial strategies of rule deployed by Indian agents, missionaries, and lega…
Legalities of Nature
In this article, I trace the tangled relationships between law, nature, and empire as they figure in Canadian national geographies, imagined and real. While the nature-culture dichotomy has long been contested by cultural geographers, anthropologists, and historians, to date, socio-legal scholars and legal theorists have spent less time problematizing the law-nature distinction. With the exception of natural law, law and nature are commonly perce…
Law's Archive
The archival turn has followed a long, protracted, and spiraled trajectory through the fields of history, historical anthropology, philosophy, and literary studies. Animated by the cultural turn and shaped by the challenges of poststructuralism, subaltern, and postcolonial studies, critics have formulated history's archive not solely as a repository of sources through which to retrieve and/or assemble the past but as an uneven effect of power and…
Genealogies of the Land
Between 1998 and 2003, Canadian courts were confronted with two cases that have held significant legal and political consequences for Aboriginal peoples. The cases, R v Gladue (1999) and R v Powley (2003) raised pressing questions about Aboriginal identities and the rights and material resources that follow from legal recognition. In one form or another, these cases have generated important legal, political, and theoretical questions that require…
The Times of Law
In this essay, I situate Kunal Parker's Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790–1900 , within a broader set of intellectual currents engaged with questions of time and temporality. Although Parker's book centers on the common law and history and develops specific conceptions of time, in so doing, he invites legal historians and legal scholars to ruminate on the times of law, particularly the temporal relations that law has with itself…
Racial Violence and the Cosmopolitan City
In this paper I argue that cosmopolitanisms, as visions of living with difference, and race and racisms, as political regimes of subjection and subjectification, are mutually constitutive. Although scholars have made similar claims regarding earlier versions of cosmopolitanisms, developed largely from the work of Immanuel Kant, recent proponents have conceptualized their renewed formulations, detached from Eurocentric histories and newly expanded…
Half-breeds,' racial opacity, and geographies of crime
Discussions of hybridity have proliferated in cultural geography and in social and cultural theory. What has often been missing from these accounts are the ways in which mixed-race identities have been forged, contested, and embodied spatially. Inspired by recent calls in cultural geography to rematerialize race and drawing from the growing literature on law and geography, this article examines the material dimensions of hybridity, how it was leg…
Cleansing the Conscience of the People”
Cet article analyse les efforts déployés par des Canadiens d'origine chinoise pour obtenir compensation pour la taxe ( head tax )qm leur fut imposée, en explorant les discours social et politique entourant ce débat ainsi que le cas judiciaire, Mack et al. v. The Attorney General of Canada . Même si cette cause n'a jamais été décidée par les cours, sauf pour déterminer si des demandes de réparation avaient un fondement en droit canadien, le raison…
Imperial Legacies (Post)Colonial Identities
Stanley Park is the third largest urban park in North America. Located in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), the 960-acre park was opened by civic authorities in 1888, only two years after the city was incorporated. From early on, Stanley Park became a popular leisure space for Vancouver’s ‘citizens’ and visitors alike. Today, as one of the most frequented tourist destinations in BC, the park remains an important attraction, offering a va…
Worlds at Home
Christopher Lee and Renisa Mawani interviewed Sneja Gunew, on the occasion of the publication of her book Post-multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators (Anthem Press, 2017). The intervie
In Between and Out of Place
Cet article explore et interroge les angoisses coloniales que souleva la progéniture mixed, d'origine européenne et autochtone, chez les responsables gouvernementaux et religieux à la fin du XIX e et au début du XX e siècle en Colombie Britannique. M'appuyant sur des correspondances fédérales, provinciales et locales, des documents de missionnaires, des lois et des rapports judiciaires relatifs aux infractions provinciales et fédérales liées à l'…
The British Indian Question in Natal
Arts, Faculty of
From slave revolts to social death
Juridical Humanity
Reviewed by: Juridical Humanity: A colonial history by Samera Esmeir Renisa Mawani Juridical Humanity: A colonial history By Samera Esmeir. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Samera Esmeir’s Juridical Humanity is a significant addition to the expanding literature on law, violence and colonialism. Focused on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Egypt and examining British reforms over animal welfare, women’s and prisoner’s rights, …
In Between and Out of Place
Cet article explore et interroge les angoisses coloniales que souleva la progéniture mixed, d'origine européenne et autochtone, chez les responsables gouvernementaux et religieux à la fin du XIX e et au début du XX e siècle en Colombie Britannique. M'appuyant sur des correspondances fédérales, provinciales et locales, des documents de missionnaires, des lois et des rapports judiciaires relatifs aux infractions provinciales et fédérales liées à l'…
Imperial Legacies (Post)Colonial Identities
Stanley Park is the third largest urban park in North America. Located in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), the 960-acre park was opened by civic authorities in 1888, only two years after the city was incorporated. From early on, Stanley Park became a popular leisure space for Vancouver’s ‘citizens’ and visitors alike. Today, as one of the most frequented tourist destinations in BC, the park remains an important attraction, offering a va…
Cleansing the Conscience of the People”
Cet article analyse les efforts déployés par des Canadiens d'origine chinoise pour obtenir compensation pour la taxe ( head tax )qm leur fut imposée, en explorant les discours social et politique entourant ce débat ainsi que le cas judiciaire, Mack et al. v. The Attorney General of Canada . Même si cette cause n'a jamais été décidée par les cours, sauf pour déterminer si des demandes de réparation avaient un fondement en droit canadien, le raison…
Genealogies of the Land
Between 1998 and 2003, Canadian courts were confronted with two cases that have held significant legal and political consequences for Aboriginal peoples. The cases, R v Gladue (1999) and R v Powley (2003) raised pressing questions about Aboriginal identities and the rights and material resources that follow from legal recognition. In one form or another, these cases have generated important legal, political, and theoretical questions that require…
Legalities of Nature
In this article, I trace the tangled relationships between law, nature, and empire as they figure in Canadian national geographies, imagined and real. While the nature-culture dichotomy has long been contested by cultural geographers, anthropologists, and historians, to date, socio-legal scholars and legal theorists have spent less time problematizing the law-nature distinction. With the exception of natural law, law and nature are commonly perce…
The Sociological Imagination and its Imperial Shadows
This article commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of The Sociological Imagination by recalling, renewing and updating C. Wright Mills' pledge to expand a politically aware, self-reflective and publicly accessible intellectual culture between aestheticism and scientism. We begin by sketching how Mills' 'bifocal' vision of the translation between the close-up perspective on personal milieus and the longer view of social structures contrasts with r…
Colonial Proximities
Real and imagined encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations produced racial anxieties that underwrote crossracial contacts in the salmon canneries, the illicit liquor trade, and the (white) slavery scare in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia. Colonial Proximities explores the legal and spatial strategies of rule deployed by Indian agents, missionaries, and lega…
Half-breeds,' racial opacity, and geographies of crime
Discussions of hybridity have proliferated in cultural geography and in social and cultural theory. What has often been missing from these accounts are the ways in which mixed-race identities have been forged, contested, and embodied spatially. Inspired by recent calls in cultural geography to rematerialize race and drawing from the growing literature on law and geography, this article examines the material dimensions of hybridity, how it was leg…
Roundtable on Eve Darian-Smith, Religion, Race, Rights
Law's Archive
The archival turn has followed a long, protracted, and spiraled trajectory through the fields of history, historical anthropology, philosophy, and literary studies. Animated by the cultural turn and shaped by the challenges of poststructuralism, subaltern, and postcolonial studies, critics have formulated history's archive not solely as a repository of sources through which to retrieve and/or assemble the past but as an uneven effect of power and…
Racial Violence and the Cosmopolitan City
In this paper I argue that cosmopolitanisms, as visions of living with difference, and race and racisms, as political regimes of subjection and subjectification, are mutually constitutive. Although scholars have made similar claims regarding earlier versions of cosmopolitanisms, developed largely from the work of Immanuel Kant, recent proponents have conceptualized their renewed formulations, detached from Eurocentric histories and newly expanded…
Specters of Indigeneity in British-Indian Migration, 1914
Colonial legal histories of indigeneity and British-Indian migration have not often been placed in conversation with one another. This article pursues such a project by tracing indigeneity as a spectral presence that emerged with uneven regularity in juridico-political conflicts over British-Indian migration. Specifically, I focus on the 1914 journey of the Komagata Maru, a Japanese steamship carrying 376 Punjabi migrants that sailed from Hong Ko…
Juridical Humanity
Reviewed by: Juridical Humanity: A colonial history by Samera Esmeir Renisa Mawani Juridical Humanity: A colonial history By Samera Esmeir. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Samera Esmeir’s Juridical Humanity is a significant addition to the expanding literature on law, violence and colonialism. Focused on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Egypt and examining British reforms over animal welfare, women’s and prisoner’s rights, …
Patterns of Empire and the Politics of Comparison
Mawani’s essay reads Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire through the politics of comparison and through a shared intellectual commitment to a postcolonial sociology. Patterns of Empire is an ambitious and challenging book that places sociology at the heart of Anglo-imperial history. Whereas Go makes important contributions to critiques of exceptionalism, his analytic approach reveals the limits of comparative historical sociology. Mawani asks to what …
The Travels of Law
I believe that no country ever stood so much in need of a code of laws as India; and I believe also that there never was a country in which the want might so easily be supplied. I said that there were many points of analogy between the state of that country after the fall of the Mogul power, and the state of Europe after the fall of the Roman empire. In one respect the analogy is very striking. As there were in Europe then, so there are in India …
Insects, War, Plastic Life
Renisa Mawani, “Insects, War, Plastic Life,” in Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou, ed. Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, 159–87. Copyright 2015, Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the copyright holder and the publisher. www.dukeupress.edu
The Times of Law
In this essay, I situate Kunal Parker's Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790–1900 , within a broader set of intellectual currents engaged with questions of time and temporality. Although Parker's book centers on the common law and history and develops specific conceptions of time, in so doing, he invites legal historians and legal scholars to ruminate on the times of law, particularly the temporal relations that law has with itself…
Law, Settler Colonialism, and “the Forgotten Space” of Maritime Worlds
Law and settler colonialism is not a self-evident, contained, or straightforward field of inquiry. Rather, it uneasily straddles two overlapping bodies of scholarship: legal histories of colonialism and settler colonial studies. In part one, I place these literatures into conversation to trace their contributions, overlaps, and incommensurabilities. In part two, I turn to maritime worlds as a method of speaking across their analytic divides. Here…
Archival Legal History
Archives and historical records are central to histories of law and legality. Themes and debates in legal history have been shaped, and in some cases even determined by the availability of and access to archival sources. Despite growing critiques of archives as partial, incomplete, and uneven sites of power/ knowledge, ‘the archive’ continues to operate as a site of retrieval and recuperation in legal history. This chapter builds on and expands t…
Unmooring the Komagata Maru
Worlds at Home
The rise in anti-migrant xenophobia, Islamophobia, and so-called populist nationalism in recent years has demonstrated the consequential effects of colonialism, nationalism, and globalisation in ou
Worlds at Home
Christopher Lee and Renisa Mawani interviewed Sneja Gunew, on the occasion of the publication of her book Post-multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators (Anthem Press, 2017). The intervie
From slave revolts to social death
Animalia
Introduction
Political science (22 obras) · Sociology (19 obras) · Law (18 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Colonialism (11 obras) · History (11 obras) · Politics (11 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (8 obras) · History (8 obras)