Thresholds of Accusation

ISBN-13: 9781009334044 / Twarda / 2023 / 265 str.

George (University of Alberta) Pavlich

Opis

Examines pretrial rituals of accusation that enabled colonial law and order to support possessive settler-colonialism across western Canada.

Recenzje

'What is the relationship between criminal law and settler colonialism? In Thresholds of Accusation, George Pavlich presents an erudite and compelling genealogy of criminal accusation as a long process of criminalization that continues to conceal the coercive and violent effects of settler colonialism on Indigenous communities today. Pavlich asks us to consider how the vast inequities in the Canadian criminal justice system, especially the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples, are the effects of what he calls 'a dispossessing colonial rule by law.' The book is brimming with theoretical and methodological insights. Pavlich distills his arguments of accusation as a performative foundation of colonial law through close readings of archival documents. His analysis repudiates archival research as historical discovery and offers innovative methods for writing legal history. This is a must read.' Renisa Mawani, Canada Research Chair, Colonial Legal Histories and Professor, The University of British Columbia

Spis treści

1. Grammars of critique and colonial accusation; 2. Reconnaissance discourses for colonial law; 3. Sovereign spectacles and criminal accusation; 4. Justices of the peace at accusatory theatres; 5. Training police accusers; 6. Moulding accused individuals; 7. Biopolitics and colonial accusation; 8. Denouements and turned spades.