VIOLENCE STUDIES OIP

Publisher:
OXFORD INDIA
| Author:
KANNABIRAN,KALPANA (Ed.)
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
OXFORD INDIA
Author:
KANNABIRAN,KALPANA (Ed.)
Language:
English
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Bringing together fresh methodological and conceptual perspectives on the way violence is understood and analysed, the contributors to this volume investigate its occurrence across sites??law, family, state, gender, labour, caste, sexuality, communalism, and so on??to explore the normal as well as the exceptional. The case studies in this book are all drawn from the Indian experience. This volume aims towards a coherent and more nuanced understanding of violence that moves beyond the episodic to the systemic, structural levels of society and consciousness.

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Bringing together fresh methodological and conceptual perspectives on the way violence is understood and analysed, the contributors to this volume investigate its occurrence across sites??law, family, state, gender, labour, caste, sexuality, communalism, and so on??to explore the normal as well as the exceptional. The case studies in this book are all drawn from the Indian experience. This volume aims towards a coherent and more nuanced understanding of violence that moves beyond the episodic to the systemic, structural levels of society and consciousness.

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Kalpana Kannabiran is Professor & Regional Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad. She was Professor of Sociology and part of the founding faculty of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Her work has focussed on understanding the social foundations of non-discrimination, structural violence, and questions of constitutionalism and social justice in India. Author of Tools of Justice: Non-discrimination and the Indian Constitution(212), her writing straddles law and gender studies, law and literature and human rights. She is recipient of the Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists, 212, for her work in the discipline of law.

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