CMS Borders Research Group is excited to present the first event of the Borders Group Speaker Series with Dr. Renisa Mawani (Canada Research Chair, Colonial Legal Histories & UBC Professor of Sociology).
RSVP below for this talk.
Abstract
In this talk, I examine how colonial officials sought to redraw and control maritime and land-based borders in India, Burma, and Siam during the World War I period. In September 1914, Lord Hardinge, the Governor-General of India, signed the Ingress into India Ordinance which granted local police and magistrates unprecedented powers to arrest and detain Indian men returning from abroad. The ordinance was ostensibly aimed at seditionists from Punjab but was used more widely to criminalize merchants and traders in India, Burma, and Siam. To document the violent effects of the Ingress, I offer a legal history through family biography.
Speaker Bio
Professor Renisa Mawani is Canada Research Chair, Colonial Legal Histories & faculty at the Department of Sociology, UBC Vancouver. Her research areas include Colonial Legal History; Critical Theory, Race and Racism; Affect; Time and Temporality; Oceans and Maritime Worlds; Settler Colonialism and Migration; Colonial India and the Diaspora; More-than-human Worlds.
RSVP for this talk has closed. Please join us for the next Borders Group speaker series event on Oct 27th.
