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Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the T
- Publication Date
- 2018-08-17
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780822370352
- Subject Area
- Law, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Across Oceans of Law : the Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Maritime, Emigration & Immigration, Sociology / General, Legal History
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Series
- Global and Insurgent Legalities Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 17.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822370352
ISBN-13
9780822370352
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240940722
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Across Oceans of Law : the Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire
Subject
Maritime, Emigration & Immigration, Sociology / General, Legal History
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Social Science
Series
Global and Insurgent Legalities Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
17.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2018-008234
Reviews
Across Oceans of Law is much more than an account of yet another dark chapter in Canadian and British imperial history. . . . Fresh and compelling. . . . Straightforward in its ingenuity and genuinely convincing in its execution. Indeed, there is here an elegance in the delivery of the core idea., Charting the 1914 voyage of the S.S. Komagata Maru and focusing on the sea, the ship, the manifest, the indigenous, and the fugitive, Renisa Mawani makes a compelling case against the European myth of the 'free sea.' Arguing for a new 'ocean as method' and foregrounding the co-emergence of maritime law and the policing of immigration this book will rightly be seen as a legal and historical tour de force., This impressively researched and theoretically sophisticated book will profoundly transform the ways in which scholars of migration, empire, and anticolonialism approach their work., It is...impossible not to appreciate the urgent contemporary relevance and resonance of the 'ocean as method' from the outset of Mawani's text., By requiring scholars to think thematically, narratively, connectedly, vertically, temporally, and non-foundationally, Across Oceans of Law provides stimulating conceptual tools for applications in contexts beyond the voyage of the Komagata Maru , and beyond the seas., This beautifully written and richly illustrated book provides a new global and oceanic history perspective on the journey of the Komagata Maru . Ranging across theories of law, time, and space, Renisa Mawani places an event limited in time and scale into some of the large questions and themes of history: migration, mobility, maritime jurisdiction, race, legal rights, and anticolonial radicalism., Renisa Mawani has written a beautifully conceived, deeply researched, and elegantly argued book that all of us should read., Across Oceans of Law follows a breathtaking scalar approach attentive to the hierarchies of race, time, and jurisdiction, while narrating a microhistorical story of Komagata Maru's transoceanic travel to recover oceans as 'vibrant spaces of law, politics and poetics' (236). It is a beautifully written, richly documented, and theoretically sophisticated study that connects the dense imperial, legal, and maritime histories with global histories of time from the perspective of a ship steered by a colonial subject during the heyday of anticolonialism., What makes the book particularly valuable are the questions that it raises about freedom and movement, questions that are timely, especially given the manifold migration crises taking place around the globe today. Thus, for scholars who wish to better understand contemporary concerns around migration and race, Mawani's book is certainly a good resource., Across Oceans of Law is complex, comprehensively researched, and engagingly presented. . . . Each of the four chapters presents a unique perspective on thinking about the diverse and significant themes found in the examination of the changing development of maritime jurisprudence and evolving interpretation of the freedom of the sea, changing definitions of the legal nature of a ship, the status of colonial subjects, anticolonial restrictions on immigration, and the career of Gurdit Singh. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
341.45
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and two months later were deported to Calcutta. In Across Oceans of Law Renisa Mawani retells this well-known story of the Komagata Maru . Drawing on "oceans as method"--a mode of thinking and writing that repositions land and sea--Mawani examines the historical and conceptual stakes of situating histories of Indian migration within maritime worlds. Through close readings of the ship, the manifest, the trial, and the anticolonial writings of Singh and others, Mawani argues that the Komagata Maru 's landing raised urgent questions regarding the jurisdictional tensions between the common law and admiralty law, and, ultimately, the legal status of the sea. By following the movements of a single ship and bringing oceans into sharper view, Mawani traces British imperial power through racial, temporal, and legal contests and offers a novel method of writing colonial legal history., 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.
LC Classification Number
KZA1145.M258 2018
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