Routledge Readings on Law, Development and Legal Pluralism Ecology, Families, Governance

Introduction: The Sites and Possibilities of Interdisciplinary Law

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

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

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

Biography

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.

'Routledge Readings on Law, Development and Legal Pluralism will be of extraordinary interest to legal scholars, and scholars in environment and ecology, kinship and indigeneity studies, as well as practitioners. Engaging with concepts of harm and risk the first section connects the rich literature on biodiversity, agro-ecology, disaster, forest rights establishing the rich trajectory of contemporary ecology and law. The second section traces violence and marginality in the plurality of families and their laws in India, while the final section foregrounds legal pluralism. The three inter-connected sections highlight the politics and practices of law making, law reform and law application.'

Rukmini Sen, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India 

'This is an important and much needed collection of rich, textured and critical articles on most significant themes in law. It contains three sections on important contemporary issues of environment, families, and legal pluralism. This volume begins with perhaps the most significant crisis of the times — environment, ecology and disasters, and the role of law and public policy. The second section on Families in Law reflect feminist analyses of the family as the site of discrimination and violence. The last section on legal pluralism is a good closing for this volume compelling readers to examine if non-formal, non-state mechanisms of conflict resolution can co-exist with the formal adversarial legal system in India. This volume is ideal as a ready reckoner on important issues in law and justice in India.'

Ruchira Goswami, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India