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Violence, Misrecognition, and Place: Legal Envelopment and Colonial Governmentality in the Upper Skeena River, British Columbia, 1888

Author(s): Matthew P Unger

This paper is concerned with exploring legal atmospheres during colonial expansionism and the early period of confederation of British Columbia. By describing the theatrical and performative aspects of legal colonialism, the archival documents from this tim...

Article GUID: 38726046
Winter's Topography, Law, and the Colonial Legal Imaginary in British Columbia

Author(s): Matthew P Unger

This article examines how images of nature, weather, and topography disclose a politics of recognition (who is visible/invisible) invested in a burgeoning criminal justice milieu, where punishment of wrongdoing became increasingly racialized in British Colu...

Article GUID: 37885918