Title Composing violence : the limits of exposure and the making of minorities / Moyukh Chatterjee

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages) : illustrations Series Theory in forms Theory in forms. Contents The Limits of Exposure -- A Minor Reading -- Composing the Archive -- Against the Witness -- Anti-Impunity Activism -- Sexual Violence beyond the Unspeakable -- Minor, Minorities, Minoritization Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Political violence -- India -- Religious aspects Ethnic conflict -- India Social conflict -- India Religion and politics -- India Muslims -- Violence against -- India Minorities -- Violence against -- India HISTORY / Asia / South / India. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Social conflict Religion and politics Politics and government Political violence -- Religious aspects Minorities -- Violence against Ethnic conflict SUBJECT India -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064936 Subject India Form Electronic book LC no. 2022036267 ISBN 1478024291 9781478024293

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