Delving into the patterns of law and violence through the cultural imaginaries of justice, marked by the combined rise of neoliberalism and Hindutva- the book argues that legal imagination in India does not only emanate from courtrooms, legislations and judgments, but is also lived in the practices of ordinary disobediences and everyday failures.s The author suggests that it is only when law can be re-imagined as such, that the violence at the foundations of state law can be unsettled

Sircar is Associate Professor, Jindal Global Law School, Sonepat, Haryana

• Foreword by Vasuki Nesiah


• List of Images


• Preface


• Negative Spaces


• PART 1: ... the Theoretical...


• Chapter 1


• Spectacles of Emancipation: Reading Rights Differently


• Chapter 2


• Beyond Compassion:


• Children of Sex Workers and the Politics of Suffering (with Debolina Dutta)


• Chapter 3


• Bollywood's Law: Cinema, Justice and Collective Memory


• Chapter 4


• New Queer Politics: Notes on Failure and Stuckness at a Negative Moment


• Part II: ... is Personal...


• Chapter 5


• The Silence of Gulberg: Refracted Memories, Inadequate Images


• Chapter 6


• Professor of Pathos: Upendra Baxi's Minor Jurisprudence


• Chapter 7


• The Conduct of Critique: Jurisdictional Account of a Feminist Journey


• Consolidated Bibliography


• Index