{"product_id":"ways-of-remembering-volume-1-law-cinema-and-collective-memory-in-the-new-india-hardback-9781316512814","title":"Ways of Remembering: Volume 1; Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India (Hardback) 9781316512814","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWays of Remembering: Volume 1\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLaw, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInvestigation into how a shared narrative of law and cinema produces ways of collectively remembering mass violence in postcolonial India.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eOishik Sircar (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781316512814, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.633 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Rare is the shedding of new light on an historical event that has been thoroughly dissected, but Ways of Remembering does just that. Providing connective tissue between the current-day force of Hindutva with the Gujarat pogrom of 2002, Oishik Sircar brilliantly illuminates the reconstitution of violence through legal and cinematic narrative collusion. What emerges as well is an innovative approach to textual reading that generates novel questions and insights about memory making and the state. The result is a book about the past that is unexpectedly timely.' Jasbir K. Puar, Rutgers University, USA\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWays of Remembering tells a story about the relationship between secular law and religious violence by studying the memorialisation of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom—postcolonial India's most litigated and mediatized event of anti-Muslim mass violence. By reading judgments and films on the pogrom through a novel interpretive framework, the book argues that the shared narrative of law and cinema engenders ways of remembering the pogrom in which the rationality of secular law offers a resolution to the irrationality of religious violence. In the public's collective memory, the force of this rationality simultaneously condemns and normalises violence against Muslims while exonerating secular law from its role in enabling the pogrom, thus keeping the violent (legal) order against India's Muslim citizens intact. The book contends that in foregrounding law's aesthetic dimensions we see the discursive ways in which secular law organizes violence and presents itself as the panacea for that very violence.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Law and the Aesthetics of Atrocity\u003cbr\u003e 2. A Jurisprudential-Aesthetic Approach\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Best Bakery Judgments: Aesthetics of Judicial Memory\u003cbr\u003e 4. Bollywood's Law: Cinematic Justice and Collective Memory\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'As They Ought'\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Law [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Law\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Law%20%5BL%5D%22\"\u003eL\u003c\/a\u003e], Violence in society [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Violence in society\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Violence%20in%20society%20%5BJFFE%5D%22\"\u003eJFFE\u003c\/a\u003e], Cultural studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Cultural studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Cultural%20studies%20%5BJFC%5D%22\"\u003eJFC\u003c\/a\u003e], Genocide \u0026amp; ethnic cleansing [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Genocide \u0026amp; ethnic cleansing\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Genocide%20\u0026amp;%20ethnic%20cleansing%20%5BHBTZ%5D%22\"\u003eHBTZ\u003c\/a\u003e], Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e], Films, cinema [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Films, cinema\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Films,%20cinema%20%5BAPF%5D%22\"\u003eAPF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52511410716952,"sku":"9781316512814","price":78.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ways-of-remembering-volume-1-law-cinema-and-collective-memory-in-the-new-india-hardback-9781316512814","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}