This book presents some of the finest essays on social justice, environment, rights and governance. With a new Introduction, it offers a guide to understanding biodiversity, agro-ecology, disaster, forest rights, family law, and governance in South Asia.
This book presents some of the finest essays on social justice, environment, rights and governance. With a new Introduction, it offers a guide to understanding biodiversity, agro-ecology, disaster, forest rights, family law, and governance in South Asia.
Kalpana Kannabiran is a sociologist and legal scholar, and is Distinguished Professor at the Council for Social Development. Among her book publications are Tools of Justice: Non-Discrimination and the Indian Constitution (2012), Gender Regimes and the Politics of Privacy: A Feminist Re-Reading of Puttaswamy vs. Union of India (2021), Law, Justice and Human Rights in India: Short Reflections (2021) and the edited volumes Violence Studies (2016) and Re-Presenting Feminist Methodologies: Interdisciplinary Explorations (2017). Based in Hyderabad, India, she was formerly Professor and Director at the Council for Social Development, Southern Regional Centre, has taught at NALSAR University of Law, and is co-founder of Asmita Resource Centre for Women. She is a recipient of the VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research (2003) and the Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists (2012), both for her work in the field of law.
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Introduction: The Sites and Possibilities of Interdisciplinary Law PART I Questions of Justice: Environment, Ecology, and Disaster 1 Law, Agro-Ecology and Colonialism in Mid-Gangetic India, 1770s-1910s 2 Historical Wrongs and Forest Rights: Nascent Jurisprudence on FRA and Participatory Evidence Making 3 Feminist Dimension of Biodiversity Challenges 4 An Overview of the Law Governing Hazardous Substances in the Post-Bhopal Era 5 Disability, Disaster and the Law: Legislating Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction PART II Families in Law: Property, Custom, and Violence 6 Family, Work and Matrimonial Property: Implications for Women and Children 7 Sex-selective Abortion and Reproductive Rights: A Syncretic Feminist Approach 8 Adjudicating Domestic Violence in the Courts 9 Feminist Activism, Violence in the Family, and Law Reform in India: A Three Decadal History 10 Saving Custom or Promoting Incest? Post-Independence Marriage Law and Dravidian Marriage Practices PART III Plural Domains of Law and Governance 11 Conflict Resolution in Tribal Societies of Northeast India: Legal Pluralism and Indian Democracy 12 Forums for Conflict Resolution in the Jaintia Tribal Community over Land Resources 13 Pathalgadi Movement and Conflicting Ideologies of Tribal Village Governance
Introduction: The Sites and Possibilities of Interdisciplinary Law PART I Questions of Justice: Environment, Ecology, and Disaster 1 Law, Agro-Ecology and Colonialism in Mid-Gangetic India, 1770s-1910s 2 Historical Wrongs and Forest Rights: Nascent Jurisprudence on FRA and Participatory Evidence Making 3 Feminist Dimension of Biodiversity Challenges 4 An Overview of the Law Governing Hazardous Substances in the Post-Bhopal Era 5 Disability, Disaster and the Law: Legislating Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction PART II Families in Law: Property, Custom, and Violence 6 Family, Work and Matrimonial Property: Implications for Women and Children 7 Sex-selective Abortion and Reproductive Rights: A Syncretic Feminist Approach 8 Adjudicating Domestic Violence in the Courts 9 Feminist Activism, Violence in the Family, and Law Reform in India: A Three Decadal History 10 Saving Custom or Promoting Incest? Post-Independence Marriage Law and Dravidian Marriage Practices PART III Plural Domains of Law and Governance 11 Conflict Resolution in Tribal Societies of Northeast India: Legal Pluralism and Indian Democracy 12 Forums for Conflict Resolution in the Jaintia Tribal Community over Land Resources 13 Pathalgadi Movement and Conflicting Ideologies of Tribal Village Governance
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