Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice Dispossessions, Marginalities, Rights

Introduction: Exploring the Contours of Interdisciplinary Law

1 Law and Terror in the Age of Constitution-Making

2 The Gandhian Conception of the Constitution

3 On the Fringe: The Tribal Laws

4 Law, Rights, and Public Policy

5 The Trajectories of Work, Sexuality and Citizenship: The Rights of the Transgender in India

6 ‘Vimla to Pagal Hai!’ [Vimla is a Lunatic!]

7 Legitimating Love: Tis Hazari and the Judicial Process

8 A Legal Framework to Prevent Trafficking of Women and Young Girls During Disasters in India

9 Victims, Whores, and Wives: Migrant Women and the Law

10 ‘Bargaining’, Gender Equality and Legal Change: The Case of India’s Inheritance Laws

11 Production of Space in Urban India: Legal and Policy Challenges to Land Assembly

12 Rural Civilities: Caste, Gender, and Public Life in Kerala

13 The New Technologies and the Constitution of ‘Theft’

14 The Geographical Indications Act: Place Matters

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 and Social Justice will be of immense use to anyone whose study relates to social justice and public policy.  Over seven decades after the Constitution came into force the community of transgenders, the sex workers, adivasis, women, children, the scheduled castes and tribes, are yet to realise their rights and live with fundamental human dignity.  This volume compels practitioners and students of law to engage with these issues. Not dealing with rights in an abstract way, it engages with them in very practical terms, which is what we need if Constitutional rights are to be realised.'

V.S. Elizabeth, Tamil Nadu National Law University, Trichy, India

 

'Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice is an important and much needed collection of rich, textured, critical and updated articles on most significant themes in law. The narrative of marginalities, rights, justice and the legal systems emerge in a seamless flow. While each section is distinct, the continuity among them is very well brought out. 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

 

Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice offers comprehensive resource material for those interested in contemporary politico-legal scholarship. The contested sites of the constitution, courts, prisons, land or complex processes of migration, trafficking, or geographical indications and their entanglements are covered in this volume, which makes it a compelling read for any student of law, socio-legal studies, legal historian or practitioner of law. This volume foregrounds the politics and plural lives of/in law and becomes an essential reading for everyone who takes law, marginality and violence seriously. It will be of extraordinary interest to legal scholars and practitioners. 

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