Disturbance, public disorder and everyday violence: a review of Moyukh Chatterjee's composing violence: Composing violence: the limits of exposure and the making of minorities, by Moyukh Chatterjee, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2023, 184 pp., $94.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-4780-1702-8
The article focuses on Moyukh Chatterjee's monograph *Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities*, which examines how political violence and property demolitions targeting Muslim minorities in India are framed and normalized through state institutions, legal processes, a...
| Publicado en: | Social Identities Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 193 - 198 |
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