Opis: State of Justice in India - Sanam Roohi

This set presents a comprehensive analytical study of the state of social justice in India. The four volumes undertake theoretical and empirical inquiry into the various spheres of justice, collectively creating what can be termed a 'report card' of the regime of social justice in the country. Authored by some of the finest ethnographers and analysts in the country, the works approach the issue of justice in the broader context of post-colonial democracy, and look at the limits within which democracy permits justice, social justice in particular. The volumes, which are part of the series "State of Justice in India: Issues of Social Justice", reveal that the issues pertaining to social justice are extremely contentious, and hence, dynamic. The ethnographic-historical studies are cast in an archaeological mode of inquiry. They highlight how time, place, history, perceptions, arrangements or apparatuses (such as legal, judicial, constitutional and administrative apparatuses) play significant roles in influencing social justice. This set will be a rich resource for students and researchers working in the fields of justice, sociology, law, political theory and Indian democracy. It will also be immensely useful for policy makers, policy analysts, human rights activists and NGOs. "Volume I: Social Justice and Enlightenment: West Bengal" is edited by Pradip Kumar Bose, Professor of Sociology, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Kolkata and Samir Kumar Das, Professor of Political Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata. This first volume of the series presents a collection of insightful writings on the state of social justice in present-day West Bengal. It studies the silent disjunction between the nineteenth-century and the early twentieth century notion of enlightened politics and social justice. It was this notion of enlightened politics on which the constitutional Left in West Bengal later on thrived for several decades. The volume probes the issue of whether there is a necessary connection between enlightened politics and the attainment of social justice? "Social Justice and Enlightenment: West Bengal" (Ist part of a four-part set) is based on ethnographic studies, which suggest that rule of law as the main mechanism of justice makes little sense in the specific context of the local demands for justice and semi-legal practices. It questions why the archaic principle and the structure of rule of law has to still remain fundamental in administering and delivering justice under the Left Front rule. As its conclusion, it maintains that the West Bengal experience demonstrates that while democracy may widen through the mass entry of workers, peasants and the rural and urban poor, and though this may facilitate long-denied political justice for them, this does not ensure social justice per se. "Volume II: Justice and Law: The Limits of the Deliverables of Law" is edited by Ashok Agrwaal, Lawyer, researcher and civil rights activist and Bharat Bhushan, Editor of the "Daily Mail Newspaper". This second volume of the series focuses on the perennial tension between law and justice. The articles highlight the way law creates dichotomies in its attempt to be a guardian of justice. The authors seek to articulate the idea of a 'justice gap', which must always lie between the claims for justice and the way the dispensation of justice is organised. "Justice and Law: The Limits of the Deliverables of Law" (IInd part of a four-part set) opens with two articles on how our legislators engaged with the issues during the course of framing the Constitution. They bring out the inevitability of compromise (between law and justice) in such an exercise. It then moves on to explore the tension over the issue of reservations for scheduled castes, and other backward castes. One article documents the history of reservations in India in the background of political contentions, elections and judicial activism. Another traces how the 'game of justice' gets played in the language of the courts and the law. Both articles indicate that the issue of social justice is closely linked with the expansion of democracy. The last article seeks to measure the limits of the legal system in providing justice to those who have become marginalised on account of their sexual preferences. "Volume III: Marginalities and Justice" is edited by Paula Banerjee, Head of the Department of South and South East Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, Kolkata and Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata and Sanjay Chaturvedi, Professor of Political Science at the Centre for the Study of Geopolitics and Honorary Director, Centre for the Study of Mid-West and Central Asia, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Volume three of the series shows how marginalities in social spaces marked by power raise the issue of justice. It deals with the situation of people living on the margins of the society and their relationship with communities and sections of citizenry who have the resources and the wherewithal to secure their rights. It reveals how modes of governance intentionally or unintentionally use strategies of inclusion, exclusion, differential exclusion, and, most importantly, techniques of turning spaces into 'marginal enclaves', giving rise to injustice, and thereby, the demand for justice. "Marginalities and Justice", (IIIrd part of a four-part set) demonstrates the fundamental fact that justice emanates from the dynamics of marginality. The same governmental techniques that, to some extent, address issues of social justice, may produce marginal positions too. This collection, therefore, suggests the existence of a remainder - the one that remains outside the operations of governmentality - and explores the arrangement of social spaces in marking out a particular regime of justice. "Volume IV: Key Texts on Social Justice in India" is edited by Sanam Roohi, Programme Associate, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata and Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata. "Key Texts on Social Justice in India" carries forward the debate on social justice as the fourth volume of the series. It brings out the relational nature of justice as well as the fragmented nature of its existence. This final part of a four-part set, which is a compendium of key texts on social justice, explores how well the law fares in delivering justice, how violence becomes an essential part of the popular notion of justice and how the dynamics of justice is linked with the emergence of marginal situations. Each text of the series is, on one hand, an appeal for justice, or a response to the urge for justice, and, on the other, a manifesto that state actions fall short of ensuring justice. This compilation is meant for the students and researchers working in the fields of justice, sociology and law. It will serve as supplementary text in law as well as a source book that gives a comprehensive analysis of justice in the Indian scenario.VOLUME I: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ENLIGHTENMENT: WEST BENGAL - Pradip Kumar Bose and Samir Kumar Das Series Acknowledgement - Ranabir Samaddar Series Introduction - Ranabir Samaddar Introduction - Pradip Kumar Bose and Samir Kumar Das Land Acquisition Act and Social Justice: A Study on Development and Displacement - Ratan Khasnabis Two Leaves and a Bud: Tea and Social Justice in Darjeeling - Roshan Rai and Subhas Ranjan Chakrabarty Deprivation and Social Injustice in a Rural Context: An Ethnographic Account - Kumar Rana with Amrit Paira and Ila Paira On the Wrong Side of the Fence: Embankment, People and Social Justice in the Sundarbans - Amites Mukhopadhyay Prescribed, Tolerated, & Forbidden Forms of Claim Making - Ranabir Samaddar VOLUME II: JUSTICE AND LAW: THE LIMITS OF THE DELIVERABLES OF LAW - Ashok Agrwaal and Bharat Bhushan Series Acknowledgement - Ranabir Samaddar Series Introduction - Ranabir Samaddar Introduction - Ashok Agrwaal and Bharat Bhushan Justice in the Time of Transition: Select Indian Experiences - Sabyasachi Basu and Ray Chaudhury The Founding Moment: Social Justice in the Constitutional Mirror - Samir Kumar Das Indexing Social Justice in India-A Story of Commissions, Reports and Popular Responses - Bharat Bhushan Trivializing Justice: Reservation Under Rule of Law - Ashok Agrawaal The Fallacy of Equality: 'Anti-Citizens', Sexual Justice and the Law in India - Oishik Sircar VOLUME III: MARGINALITIES AND JUSTICE - Paula Banerjee and Sanjay Chaturvedi Series Acknowledgement - Ranabir Samaddar Series Introduction - Ranabir Samaddar Introduction - Paula Banertjee and Sanjay Chaturvedi Gulamiya Ab Hum Nahi Bajeibo: Peoples' Expressions for Justice in Jehanabad - Manish K Jha Ethnography of Social Justice in Dalit Pattis (Hamlets) of Rural UP - Badri Narayan Tiwari Rights and Social Justice for Tribal Population in India - Amit Prakash AIDS, Marginality and Women - Paula Banerjee Towards Environmental Justice Movement in India? Spatiality, Hierarchies and Inequalities - Sanjay Chaturvedi VOLUME IV: KEY TEXTS ON SOCIAL JUSTICE IN INDIA - Sanam Roohi and Ranabir Samaddar Series Acknowledgement - Ranabir Samaddar Series Introduction - Ranabir Samaddar PART I. DEVELOPMENT AND DISCONTENT: THE QUESTION OF INJUSTICE Section Introduction Ethnic Politics and Land Use: Genesis of Conflicts in India's North-East - Sanjay Barbora Contexts and Constructions of Water Scarcity - Lyla Mehta Karnataka: Kudremukh: Of Mining and Environment - Muzaffar Assadi Report of Investigation into Nandigram Mass Killing - Sanhati Eroded Lives: Riverbank Erosion and Displacement of Women in West Bengal - Krishna Bandyopadhyay, Soma Ghosh and Nilanjan Dutta PART II. SOCIAL JUSTICE: THE STATE AND ITS PERCEPTIONS Section introduction The Communal Violence (Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of Victims) - Bill The National Trust for Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities Act, 1999 The Right to Information Act, 2005 The National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy, 2007 The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 PART III. JUSTICE: LAW AND BEYOND Section Introduction Illegality and Exclusion: Law in the Lives of Slum Dwellers - Usha Ramanathan Illegal Coal Mining in Eastern India: Rethinking Legitimacy and Limits of Justice - Kuntala Lahiri Dutt Verdict on an HIV case, Supreme Court of India Reproduced in Medhina - Laya, Dipika Jain and Colin Gonzalves An Indian Charter for Minority Rights - Sabyasachi Basu and Ray Chaudhury PART IV. WOMEN AND MARGINALITY: An Issue of Gender Justice Section Introduction Gender: Women and HIV - Medhini, Laya, Dipika Jain and Colin Gonzalves National Policy for the Empowerment of Women (2001) Women, Trafficking and Statelessness in South Asia - Paula Banerjee PART V. JUSTICE: Marginal Positions and Alternative Notions Section Introduction Voices From Folk School of Dalit Bahujan & Marginalised to Policy Makers - Peoples Vigilance Committee on Human Rights Social Assessment of HIV/AIDS among Tribal People in India - NACP III Planning Team Caste is Dead, Long Live Caste - G P Deshpande Tehelka Debate: Beyond Caste - Puroshottam Agarwal Report from the Flaming Fields of Bihar PART VI. FREEDOM AND EQUALITY, RIGHTS AND SOCIAL SECURITY: BUILDING BLOCKS OF JUSTICE Section Introduction Jungle Book: Tribal Forest Rights Recognised For First Time - Nandini Sundar Informal Sector in India: Approaches for Social Security Arguments, Protests, Strikes and Free Speech: The Career and Prospects of the Right to Strike in India - Rajeev Dhavan Democracy and Right to Food - Jean Dreze

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Tytuł: State of Justice in India
Autor: Sanam Roohi
Producent: SAGE Publications Ltd
ISBN: 9788132100645
Rok produkcji: 2009
Ilość stron: 1276
Oprawa: Twarda

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