Book contents
- Thresholds of Accusation
- Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
- Thresholds of Accusation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Grammars of Critique and Colonial Accusation
- 2 Reconnaissance Discourses for Colonial Law
- 3 Sovereign Spectacles and Criminal Accusation
- 4 Justices of the Peace at Accusatory Theatres
- 5 Training Police Accusers
- 6 Moulding Accused Individuals
- 7 Biopolitics and Colonial Accusation
- 8 Denouements and Turned Spades
- References
- Index
8 - Denouements and Turned Spades
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2023
- Thresholds of Accusation
- Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
- Thresholds of Accusation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Grammars of Critique and Colonial Accusation
- 2 Reconnaissance Discourses for Colonial Law
- 3 Sovereign Spectacles and Criminal Accusation
- 4 Justices of the Peace at Accusatory Theatres
- 5 Training Police Accusers
- 6 Moulding Accused Individuals
- 7 Biopolitics and Colonial Accusation
- 8 Denouements and Turned Spades
- References
- Index
Summary
The discussion concludes by reviewing paradigmatic socio-political logics of hybrid sovereign, disciplinary, and biopower within colonial theatres of criminal accusation, as revealed by the preceding analyses of archived Albertan texts. It traces a ‘coloniality’ within accusatory performances framed by racialized, patriarchal, and marginalizing criminal justice institutions (Maldonado-Torres 2007). In composite, the chapters point to several key social and political foundations through which accusations of crime provided conditions for colonial criminalization to emerge. It is significant that such accusations and the law that they sustained were from the outset placed in the service of dispossessing social, political, and economic ambitions. The book concludes by reflecting on two legacy bequests of colonial accusation that might be used to think in ways that exceed the socio-political horizons that contour today’s vast, unequal, and repressive criminal justice systems.
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- Thresholds of AccusationLaw and Colonial Order in Canada, pp. 197 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023