Composing Violence

The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities

Autori

• Moyukh Chatterjee

Parametri

• 182 pagine
• 7 ore di lettura

• Hobby
• Mappe e viaggi
• Turismo / Viaggi

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The book explores the 2002 Gujarat riots, where armed Hindu mobs targeted Muslims, resulting in over a thousand deaths. It argues that such state-sanctioned violence catalyzes significant shifts in law and public culture, paving the way for a Hindu supremacist state. Through an analysis of legal activism, media coverage, and police archives, the author presents violence as a governance tool that shapes societal structures, revealing how modern democracy can produce a hierarchy of majorities and minorities, with violence as an intrinsic element.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2023

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