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Renisa Mawani

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Professor | Canada Research Chair | Colonial Legal HistoriesDepartment of Asian StudiesUniversity of British Columbia

Renisa Mawani

Professor | Canada Research Chair | Colonial Legal Histories

Department of Asian Studies

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Principal investigator on 5 research grants (5 SSHRC), most recently in 2021.

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Colonial Legal Histories
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$400,000
Colonial Legal Histories
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$200,000
Enemies of empire: a socio-legal history of piracy
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$93,524

All 8 grants and awards

Colonial Legal Histories

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Mawani, Renisa

$400,000

Colonial Legal Histories

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Mawani, Renisa

Keywords: colonialism legal history maritime law South Asia British Empire international law Indian radicalism postcolonial studies Indian Ocean

$200,000

Enemies of empire: a socio-legal history of piracy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Mawani, Renisa

Keywords: anticolonialism; piracy; transoceanic shipping; Black and Indian radicalism; legal history; international law; oceans and Maritime worlds; postcolonial studies; British Empire; US Empire; jurisdiction; Indian Ocean; Atlantic Ocean

$93,524

Worlds at home: on cosmopolitan futures

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Lee, Christopher M.

Keywords: cosmopolitanism; transnationalism; multiculturalism; colonialism; imperialism; racism; migrancy; cultural production; settler colonialism; decolonization; refugees; immigration; diaspora; world literature; cultural difference

$25,000

Charting imperial itineraries, 1914-2014 unmooring the Komagata Maru

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: Dhamoon, Rita K.

Keywords: Komagata Maru; Canadian history and politics; imperial and colonial histories; transpacific mobilities; resistance and radicalism; migration and terrorism; memory and culture

$23,838

Law on the edge

Co-investigatorSSHRC2012

Principal investigators: Cunliffe, Emma

Keywords: law and society

$50,000

Imperial circuits of law the Komagata Maru, the Indian diaspora, and the British empire 1912-1947

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009

Principal investigators: Mawani, Renisa

Keywords: law and society; legal history; colonialism and imperialism; diaspora; globalization; India; South East Asia; Canada in a global context

$88,595

Making nature/ making place: law, identity, and the construction of Stanley park, 1853-2003

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Mawani, Renisa

Keywords: socio-legal studies; law and geography; legal construction of nature; postcolonial studies; Aboriginal peoples

$52,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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