Choreographic Occultation
and Petrification of Meaning:
Post-colonial Law and Alternative Subject
Post-colonial Law and Alternative Subject
by
Neshat Quaiser
Associate
Professor
Jamia
Milia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Chair:
Dr. Ankur Datta, SAU
Dr. Ankur Datta, SAU
Discussant:
Dr. Diya Mehra, SAU
Dr. Diya Mehra, SAU
The seminar examines the
ways in which law contributes, as an occultating constitutive, crucially in the
construction of inverted truth, meaning and subject. Post-colonial law and
legal institutions are inscribed in the history of colonial power, its legal
epistemology and the ways in which these constructed colonial and consequently
post-colonial legal subjects. It also examines the
ideology of capital punishment; rule of law-community-equal justice; law as a
domain of struggle; trial as an arena of power; and alternative subject
formation. Although the seminar deals with specific examples from Indian
jurisprudence, its general concerns with the colonial/postcolonial legacy of
juridical/legal practice and critique of the western/liberal notion of law as
choreographed gives it general focus and presents the possibility for the
formations of a people’s legality.
Date:
7 August 2013
7 August 2013
Time:
02.30 PM
02.30 PM
Venue:
FSI Hall, Ground Floor, South Asian University,
Akbar Bhawan, Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi 110021
FSI Hall, Ground Floor, South Asian University,
Akbar Bhawan, Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi 110021
ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED
(Please
have your mobile phones switched off during lecture and discussion)