Contents

Foreword

Christiane Wilke

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Socio-legal Perspectives on Law’s Violence

Mariful Alam, Patrick Dwyer, and Katrin Roots

Part I  Lawfare and Settler Colonialism

1. Race and Colonialism in Socio-legal Studies in Canada

Carmela Murdocca, Shaira Vadasaria, and Timothy Bryan

2. Jurisfiction and Other Settler-Colonial Legal Imaginaries

Stacy Douglas

Part II  Gendered Violence and Racial Subjugation

3. Making Terrorism: Security Practices and the Production of Terror Activities in Canada

Yavar Hameed and Jeffrey Monaghan

4. Law, Gendered Violence, and Justice: Critically Engaging #MeToo

Emily Lockhart, Katrin Roots, and Heather Tasker

5. Through Different Lenses: Legality, Humanitarianism, and the Western Gaze

Heather Tasker

Part III  Resistance and Social Transformation

6. Practicing Freedom of Information as “Feral Law” and Advancing Research Methods in Socio-legal Studies

Alex Luscombe and Kevin Walby

7. Far from the Madding Crowds: Redefining the Field of Socio-legal Studies from Within

Nergis Canefe

Afterword: Toward the Law of Anti-laws: Notes on Prefigurative Politics and Radical Imaginations

Mariful Alam and Irina Ceric

Contributors