[Reader-list] Sociology Seminar at SAU: Neshat Quaiser

[Diya Mehra]

The Department of Sociology, South Asian Universitycordially invites you a seminar: Choreographic Occultation and Petrification of Meaning: Post-colonial Law and Alternative Subjectby Neshat QuaiserAssociate Professor, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi,  Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 2.30 pmFSI Hall, Ground Floor, South Asian University,Akbar Bhawan, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 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. The seminar 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.