{"product_id":"unmooring-the-komagata-maru-9780774860659","title":"Unmooring the Komagata Maru","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnmooring the Komagata Maru\u003c\/em\u003e challenges conventional historical accounts to consider the national and transnational colonial dimensions of the\u003cem\u003e Komagata Maru\u003c\/em\u003e incident.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnmooring\u003c\/em\u003e is an important transnational text that sheds light on the history of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest as well as their present. -- Dharitri Bhattacharjee, Western Washington University * BC Studies, Issue 209 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOverall, this book is a well-written, rich and complex exploration of an event that illuminates Canadian nationalism and racisms and the transnational disciplining of brown bodies across borders, as well as historical anti-imperialist and contemporary anti-racist and anticolonial struggles. As a book that makes a vital contribution to political science and, indeed, the social sciences more broadly, \u003cem\u003eUnmooring the Komagata Maru\u003c\/em\u003e deserves an important place in university classrooms and research libraries across Canada and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Elaine Coburn, Glendon College, York University * Canadian Journal of Political Science *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Itinerant Subjects of Empire: Unmooring the \u003cem\u003eKomagata Maru\u003c\/em\u003e \/\u003cem\u003e Davina Bhandar and Rita Kaur Dhamoon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: The Politics of Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Journey of the \u003cem\u003eKomagata Maru\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Right to the Empire?: British Imperial Citizenship before the First World War \/ \u003cem\u003eIan Christopher Fletcher\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 The Last Stretch of the Journey: The \u003cem\u003eKomagata Maru,\u003c\/em\u003e War-Time Political Radicalism, and Migrant Workers from Punjab in Calcutta \/ \u003cem\u003eSuchetana Chattopadhyay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Resistance Struggles: Facing Lies, Deception, and Racism \/ \u003cem\u003eSatwinder Kaur Bains\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Migration Regimes in Colonial Contexts\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 The \u003cem\u003eKomagata Maru\u003c\/em\u003e as Event: Legal Transformations in Migration Regimes \/ \u003cem\u003eRadhika Mongia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Borders, Boats, and Brown Bodies: Reading Tamil “Irregular Arrivals” through the History of the \u003cem\u003eKomagata Maru\u003c\/em\u003e \/ \u003cem\u003eNadia Hasan, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, Nayani Thiyagarajah, and Nishant Upadhyay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Temporary Arrivals: The \u003cem\u003eKomagata Maru\u003c\/em\u003e Passengers and Migrant Labour \/ \u003cem\u003eDavina Bhandar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Colonial Temporalities of Memory and Cultural Production\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 The \u003cem\u003eKomagata Maru\u003c\/em\u003e Incident as Described in Two Japanese Works \/ \u003cem\u003eKaori Mizukami\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 (Mis)Representing the \u003cem\u003eKomagata Maru\u003c\/em\u003e in Indian Print Cultures \/ \u003cem\u003eIrina Spector-Marks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 The Time and Sound of the Nautical Border \/ \u003cem\u003eAyesha Hameed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4: Disrupting Colonial Formations of Nation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 When Home and Harem Collide: The \"Hindu Women’s Question\": A Mass Spectacle of the Canadian Nation, Family, and Modernity \/ \u003cem\u003eEnakshi Dua\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 The \u003cem\u003eKomagata Maru\u003c\/em\u003e Recontextualized: Memory, History, and Diasporic Sikh Subnationalism in Anita Rau Badami’s \u003cem\u003eCan You Hear the Nightbird Call?\u003c\/em\u003e \/ \u003cem\u003eRajender Kaur\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Past Wrongs and a New National Imaginary: Remembering the \u003cem\u003eKomagata Maru\u003c\/em\u003e Incident \/ \u003cem\u003eAlia Somani\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 The Politics of Empire: Minor History on a Global Scale \/ \u003cem\u003eRenisa Mawani\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 Poems: Still Chanting Denied Shores \/ \u003cem\u003eTariq Malik\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix 1: Historical Figures cited in the Chapters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix 2: BC Government Apology, May 23, 2008\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix 3: Canadian Government Apology, May 18, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404941140311,"sku":"9780774860659","price":62.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774860659.jpg?v=1730488132","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unmooring-the-komagata-maru-9780774860659","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}