Renisa Mawani

 

 

other publications

 

Edited Volumes

• 2024 Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Life Worlds, co-edited with Antoinette Burton & Samantha Frost (under contract with Bloomsbury Academic).

• 2020 Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times, co-edited with Antoinette Burton (Duke University Press, 2020).

• 2019 Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories, co-edited with Rita Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, & Satwinder Bains (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press).

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Special Issues

• 2019  "Worlds at Home: On Cosmopolitan Futures," Journal of Intercultural Studies, 40(5), co-edited with Sheila Giffen and Christopher Lee.

• 2014  “Indian Ocean Circuits of Law,” Law and History Review, 32(4), co-edited with Iza Hussin.

 

Articles and Book Chapters

2023

• "The Law of the Sea: Oceans, Ships, and the Anthropocene," in P. Burdon & J. Martel, The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene (Routledge), 115-129.

• "Gale,” in C. Shaw and E. Turpin (eds.), The Work of Wind: Sea (Berlin: K. Verlag), 256 – 281.

• “The Pandemic and the Ship,” in C. Stychin (ed.), Law, Humanities, and the Covid Crisis (London: University of London Press - with Mikki Stelder)

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2022

• “The Slave, the Ship, the Legal Person,” Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, 87: 19-42.

• “Navigating Colonial Law in a ‘Sea of Islands,’” Law and Social Inquiry, 47(1): 355- 361.

• “From Migrants to Revolutionaries: The Komagata Maru’s 1914 ‘Middle Passage’,” in W. Walters, C. Heller, and L. Pezzani (eds.), Viapolitics: Borders, Migration and the Power of Locomotion (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021), 58-83.

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2021

• "Oceans as Method: Law, Violence, and Climate Catastrophe," in L. Lambert (ed.), The Funambulist, Issue 29: The Ocean: From the Black Atlantic to the Sea of Islands.

• “Unruly Oceans: Law, Violence, and Sovereignty at Sea,” TWAILR: Third World Approaches to International Law Review (with Sebastian Prange). 

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2019

• “From Slave Revolts to Social Death,” Theory and Society, 48(6), 835-849.

• “Introduction: Worlds at Home: On Cosmopolitan Futures,” Journal of Intercultural Studies, 40(5), 525-533 (with Sheila Giffen & Christopher Lee).

• “Worlds at Home: An interview with Sneja Gunew by Christopher Lee and Renisa Mawani,” Journal of Intercultural Studies, 40(5), 638-647.

• "Postcolonial Studies." In S. Stern, M. Del Mar, B. Meyler (eds). The Oxford Handbook on Law and the Humanities (Oxford University Press), 105-124.

• “The Politics of Empire: Minor History on a Global Scale.” In R. Dhamoon, D. Bhandar, R. Mawani, and S. Bains (eds). Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press).

 

2018

• “Ships at Sea.” In Philippe Tortell, Mark Turin, & Margot Young (eds.). Memory (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press).

• “Insect Wars: Bees, Bedbugs, and Biopolitics.” In Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory (Routledge).

• “Archival Legal History: Towards the Ocean as Archive.” In Marcus Dubber and Christopher Tomlins (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Historical Legal Research (Oxford University Press).

• "From Slave Revolts to Social Death," Trajectories, 30(1), Autumn 2018

 

2016

• “Law, Settler Colonialism, and ‘the Forgotten Space’ of Maritime Worlds.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 12, 107-131.

• “Criminal Accusation as Colonial Rule: The Case of Gurdit Singh.” In George Pavlich and Matthew Unger (eds.), Accusation: Making Criminals (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press), 73-99.

 

2015

• “Insects, War, Plastic Life.” In Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller (eds.). Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou (Durham: Duke University Press), 159-188.

• “Law and Migration Across the Pacific: Narrating the Komagata Maru Outside and Beyond the Nation.” In Adele Perry, Karen Dubinsky, and Henry Yu (eds.), Within and Without the Nation: Canadian History as Transnational History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 253-275.

• “Bee Workers and the Expanding Edges of Capitalism.” In Leopold Lambert (ed.), The Funambulist Papers (Punctum Books). Read an online version here.

• “Law and Colonialism: Legacies and Lineages.” In Austin Sarat and Patricia Ewick (eds). Law and Society Handbook (Malden: John Wiley and Sons), 417-432.

• “The Times of Law.” Law and Social Inquiry, 40(1), 253-263.

 

2014

• “The Travels of Law: Indian Ocean Itineraries,”(co-authored with Iza Hussin). Introduction to Forum Issue, Law and History Review, 32(4), 733-747.

• “Patterns of Empire and the Politics of Comparison,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 34(3), 618-625.

• “Law as Temporality: Colonial Politics and Indian Settlers,” University of California Irvine Law Review, 4(1), 101-130.

• “Sovereignties in Dispute: The Komagata Maru and Spectral Indigeneities, 1914.” In Shaunnagh Dorsett and John McLaren (eds.), Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements, and Legacies (London: Routledge), 107-123.

 

2012 

• “Racial Violence and the Cosmopolitan City,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 30(6), 1083-1102.

• “Law’s Archive,” Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 8, 337-365.

• “Specters of Indigeneity in British Indian Migration, 1914” Law and Society Review, 46(2), 369-403.

 

2010

• “‘Half-Breeds,’ Racial Opacity, and Geographies of Crime: Law’s Search for the ‘Original’ Indian,” Cultural Geographies, 17(4), 487-506.

• “On Postcolonialism and Criminology,”(co-authored with David Sealy). In Kirsten Kramar (ed.), Criminology: Critical Canadian Perspectives (Toronto, Pearson).

 

2009

• “The Sociological Imagination and its Imperial Shadows,” (co-authored with Thomas Kemple), Theory, Culture, and Society, 26, 228-249.

 

2008

• “Cross Racial Encounters and Juridical Truths: (Dis)Aggregating Race in British Columbia’s Colonial Contact Zone,” BC Studies (Special Issue on ‘Refracting Pacific Canada’), 156/157, 141-171.

  •  Reprinted in Ashok Mathur, Jonathan Dewar, and Mike DeGagne (eds), Cultivating Canada. (Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research Series, 2011). 

 

2007

• “Legalities of Nature: Law, Empire, and Wilderness Landscapes in Canada,” Social Identities, 13(6), 715-734.

 

2006

• “Screening out Diseased Bodies: Immigration, Mandatory HIV Testing and the Making of a Healthy Canada.” In Alison Bashford (ed) Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization, and Security, 1850 to the Present (London & New York: Palgrave), 136-158.

 

2005

• “Genealogies of the Land: Aboriginality, Law, and Territory in Vancouver’s Stanley Park,” Social and Legal Studies, 14(3), 315-340.

  •  Reprinted in Eve Darian-Smith (ed), Ethnography and Law (London: Ashgate, 2007).

 

2004

• “From Colonialism to Multiculturalism?: Totem Poles, Tourism, and National Identity in Vancouver’s Stanley Park,” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, (Special Issue on Law, Literature and Postcoloniality) 35(1-2), 2006, 31-57.

• “‘Cleansing the Conscience of the People’: Reading Head Tax Redress in Multicultural Canada,” Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 19(2), 127-151.

 

2003

• “Imperial Legacies (Post)Colonial Identities: Law, Space, and the Making of Stanley Park, 1859-2001,” Law/Text/Culture, 7, 98-141.

  • Reprinted in Denise Ferreira Da Silva and Mark Harris (eds), Postcolonialism and the Law (Routledge, 2017).

• “Island of the Unclean: Race, Colonialism, and ‘Chinese Leprosy’ in British Columbia, 1891-1924,” Journal of Law, Social Justice, and Global Development, 1, 1-21.

• “Legal Geographies of Aboriginal Segregation in British Columbia: The Making and Unmaking of the Songhees Reserve.” In Carolyn Strange & Alison Bashford (eds), Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion (London & New York: Routledge), 173-190.

 

2002

• “In Between and Out of Place: Mixed-Race Identity, Liquor, and the Law in British Columbia, 1850-1913.” In Sherene H. Razack (ed.), Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society (Toronto: Between the Lines), 47-69.

• “‘The Iniquitous Practice of Women’: Prostitution and the Making of White Spaces in British Columbia, 1898-1905.” In Cynthia Levine-Rasky (ed.), Working Through Whiteness: International Perspectives (New York: SUNY Press), 43-68.

• “Regulating the Respectable Classes?: Venereal Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914-1935.” In John McLaren, Robert Menzies, & Dorothy E. Chunn (eds.), Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, and the Individual (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press), 170-195.

  • Winner of the Hilda Neatby Prize (best article contribution to Women’s History) from the Canadian Historical Association, 2003

  • Reprinted in A. Glasbeek (ed) Moral Regulation in Canada, (Canadian Scholars Press, 2006).

 

2000

• “In Between and Out of Place: Racial Hybridity, Liquor, and the Law in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century British Columbia,” Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 15(2), 9-38.