UBC Professor Renisa Mawani is a recipient of the 2014/2015 Killam Teaching Prize for Graduate Instruction. This award is given in recognition of excellent graduate-level teaching.
Dr. Mawani is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Founding Chair of the Law and Society Minor Program at the University of British Columbia.
My research is organized along two trajectories.
The first meets at the interface of critical theory and legal history. To date, my work has aimed to write histories of indigenous displacement and non-European migration (from China and India, in particular) as conjoined and entangled colonial legal processes central to British imperial expansion. My first book, Colonial Proximities (2009), details legal encounters between aboriginal peoples, Chinese migrants, Europeans, and those enumerated as “mixed race” along Canada’s west coast. The book considers how state racisms are produced and mobilized in colonial sites of heterogeneity and critically engages Foucault’s formulation of biopolitics and state racisms.
My current book, Across Oceans of Law, traces the mobility of law and the movements of British Indian migrants across the British Empire.
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