Confirmation Seminar: Reparative Jurisprudence by Danish Sheikh

Thursday 23 July 2020, 3:30 pm via Zoom
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How might dissent be conducted in a manner that is reparative?  I place this question in the context of dissenting practices that emerge in relation to the colonial anti-sodomy law in India.

My thesis identifies acts of dissent across different spaces: in the theatre, in academic writing, in activist engagement, and in the space of legal pedagogy. These acts occupy a prefigurative mode, performing the change they intend to seek. Drawing upon theatre and performance studies, I track the reparative as it moves across these spaces; at times generating hope and evoking the utopian, at others providing a space for mourning and remembrance.

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