Law’s violence

Reivew of Oishik Sircar, Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India

Ntina Tzouvala ~ RP 2.15 (Autumn 2023), pp. 83–86 ~ Review

Oishik Sircar, Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021). 370pp., £40.99 hb., 978 0 19012 792 3 This is a book that resists easy categorisation and, as a result, also resists the typical review process. 1 I could, for example, note that the book consists of […]

Platforming new conspiracism

Reivew of Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, eds., A Lot of People are Saying

Michael F. Miller ~ RP 2.14 (April 2023), pp. 118–121 ~ Review

Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, eds., A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019). 211pp., £20.00 hb., 978 0 69118 883 6. One thing a lot of people are saying right now – especially after the events of January 6th 2021 – is […]