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Composing violence : the limits of exposure and the making of minorities /
Chatterjee, Moyukh, 1983-
Composing violence : the limits of exposure and the making of minorities / Moyukh Chatterjee. - xiii, 166 pages - Theory in forms . - Theory in forms. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Limits of Exposure -- A Minor Reading -- Composing the Archive -- Against the Witness -- Anti-Impunity Activism -- Beyond the Unspeakable -- Minor, Minorities, Minoritization.
"In 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television, left over one thousand dead. In Composing Violence Moyukh Chatterjee examines how highly visible political violence against minorities acts as a catalyst for radical changes in law, public culture, and power. He shows that, far from being quashed through its exposure by activists, media and politicians, state-sanctioned anti-Muslim violence set the stage for transforming India into a Hindu supremacist state. The state and civil society's responses to the violence, Chatterjee contends, reveal the constitutive features of modern democracy in which riots and pogroms are techniques to produce a form of society based on a killable minority and a triumphant majority. Focusing on courtroom procedures, police archives, legal activism, and mainstream media coverage, Chatterjee theorizes violence as a form of governance that creates minority populations. By tracing the composition of anti-Muslim violence and the legal structures that transform that violence into the making of minorities and majorities, Chatterjee demonstrates that violence is intrinsic to liberal democracy"--
9781478019664
2022036266
Political violence--Religious aspects.--India
Ethnic conflict--India.
Social conflict--India.
Religion and politics--India.
Muslims--Violence against--India.
Minorities--Violence against--India.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
HISTORY / Asia / South / India
India--Politics and government.
HN690.Z9 / V5 2023
303.60954
Composing violence : the limits of exposure and the making of minorities / Moyukh Chatterjee. - xiii, 166 pages - Theory in forms . - Theory in forms. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Limits of Exposure -- A Minor Reading -- Composing the Archive -- Against the Witness -- Anti-Impunity Activism -- Beyond the Unspeakable -- Minor, Minorities, Minoritization.
"In 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television, left over one thousand dead. In Composing Violence Moyukh Chatterjee examines how highly visible political violence against minorities acts as a catalyst for radical changes in law, public culture, and power. He shows that, far from being quashed through its exposure by activists, media and politicians, state-sanctioned anti-Muslim violence set the stage for transforming India into a Hindu supremacist state. The state and civil society's responses to the violence, Chatterjee contends, reveal the constitutive features of modern democracy in which riots and pogroms are techniques to produce a form of society based on a killable minority and a triumphant majority. Focusing on courtroom procedures, police archives, legal activism, and mainstream media coverage, Chatterjee theorizes violence as a form of governance that creates minority populations. By tracing the composition of anti-Muslim violence and the legal structures that transform that violence into the making of minorities and majorities, Chatterjee demonstrates that violence is intrinsic to liberal democracy"--
9781478019664
2022036266
Political violence--Religious aspects.--India
Ethnic conflict--India.
Social conflict--India.
Religion and politics--India.
Muslims--Violence against--India.
Minorities--Violence against--India.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
HISTORY / Asia / South / India
India--Politics and government.
HN690.Z9 / V5 2023
303.60954