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Empire, Colonialism and the Law: Renisa Mawani talks about her work as a historical legal scholar focusing on oceanic law and colonial encounters
University of British Columbia professor Renisa Mawani guides us through the beginning of her career as a critical theorist and legal scholar studying the history of empire and colonialism. She talks about the origins of her focus on Asian migration and Indigenous dispossession as overlapping histories in her first book, Colonial Proximities, and how this focus arose from family histories of migration. She walks us through some of her methodology, how she makes sense of archives and how charting lines on a map led her to consider colonial legal history in oceanic terms, to see 'oceans as method' in her second book, Across Oceans of Law. She talks about interdisciplinary work as learning to speak new languages and broaches what it's like to publish and work in academia, with mentions of her most recent co-edited work in Animalia, and her upcoming book project on colonialism and piracy.
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By Rodney Stehr, Patara McKeen, Jane WillsieUniversity of British Columbia professor Renisa Mawani guides us through the beginning of her career as a critical theorist and legal scholar studying the history of empire and colonialism. She talks about the origins of her focus on Asian migration and Indigenous dispossession as overlapping histories in her first book, Colonial Proximities, and how this focus arose from family histories of migration. She walks us through some of her methodology, how she makes sense of archives and how charting lines on a map led her to consider colonial legal history in oceanic terms, to see 'oceans as method' in her second book, Across Oceans of Law. She talks about interdisciplinary work as learning to speak new languages and broaches what it's like to publish and work in academia, with mentions of her most recent co-edited work in Animalia, and her upcoming book project on colonialism and piracy.
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