Lawful Repair

Name: Lawful Repair
Brand: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781478035022
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DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781478035022

Reimagining Law Through Queer Dissent

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By Danish Sheikh
Imprint: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: August 2, 2027
Format: HARDBACK
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Weight: 570 g
Pages: 176

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In Lawful Repair, Danish Sheikh asks what happens when queer people, confronted by a law that criminalizes their intimate lives, work creatively within its own forms to enact the law they need in the here and now. Drawing on queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's account of reparative reading and on the work of legal humanists Patricia Williams, Robert Cover, and James Boyd White, Sheikh examines the work of dissenters against Section 377, India's colonial-era sodomy law. Through playful and generative experiments with contracts, affidavits, and rewritten judgments, these dissenters turn the law's constraints into resources for hopeful legal futures. Combining memoir, critical theory, and theater, Sheikh interweaves practices of dissent with his own lived experience of repair work, showing how queer people extract sustenance from a culture whose avowed desire has often been to harm them. Sheikh demonstrates that law remains too vital a resource to cede and that the creative forces of queer dissent can keep law's imaginative possibilities alive.

Danish Sheikh is a legal scholar and playwright. He is Senior Lecturer at Monash Law School and the author of Love and Reparation: A Theatrical Response to the Section 377 Litigation in India and coauthor of Invisible Libraries.

"Through a range of intimate, literary, and public exchanges, Sheikh takes the dark and broken things law produces and nudges us towards the delight that can survive our despair. Attending to self and other through careful reinterpretation and reveal, Lawful Repair does the important work of queer worldmaking, even if (especially when) it calls it 'minor mending.'"--Swethaa Ballakrishnen, author of, Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India's Professional Elite "Danish Sheikh's beautiful and imaginative book shows how reparatory readings of institutional structures can support queer flourishing. Oriented to emancipatory possibilities within the seams of law, Sheikh draws on life, theater, and community to discover what else law can do. A stunning account of hopeful dramaturgical legal methods."--Davina Cooper, author of, Conceptual Activism: Radical Sense-Making and the Struggle for Gender

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