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Informationen zum Autor Kalpana Kannabiran Professor and Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad. Among her recent publications is the book Tools of Justice: Non-Discrimination and the Indian Constitution (2012). She has edited The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women's Lived Realities (2005) and Women and Law: Critical Feminist Perspectives (2014); and co-edited Challenging the Rule(s) of Law: Colonialism, Criminology and Human Rights in India (2008). Her writing has focussed on questions of gender, caste, tribe, violence, disability, law, and free speech. Kalpana Kannabiran is 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. Klappentext This volume opens out the field of violence studies with a focus on its myriad habitations and experiences in India. It interrogates the numerous ways in which omnipresent violence is interpreted and represented, and delves into the interconnections between the identifiable normative axes of power and the engendering of violence. It aims towards a coherent and more nuanced understanding of violence that moves beyond the episodic to the systemic, structural levels of society and consciousness. Zusammenfassung Violence is embedded in our everyday. We encounter not only its overt, raw, and brutal nature but also the deeply buried invisible and insidious forms that normalize violence in the collective conscience, making it less noticeable and more tolerable. This volume opens out the field of violence studies with a focus on its myriad habitations and experiences in India. It interrogates the numerous ways in which omnipresent violence is interpreted and represented, and delves into the interconnections between the identifiable normative axes of power and the engendering of violence. Bringing together fresh methodological and conceptual perspectives on the way violence is understood and analysed, the contributors to this volume investigate its occurrence across siteslaw, family, state, gender, labour, caste, sexuality, communalism, and so onto 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: The Habitations of Violence in India - Kalpana Kannabiran I VIOLENCE AND THE POLITICAL 1. Violence and the Political: Thinking across Traditions -Aditya Nigam 2. Violence and the Colonial Order: India under British - Rule David Arnold 3. State Formation, Minoritization, and Violence in Postcolonial India - T.K. Oommen 4. Muslim Citizenship, Identity, and Violence in India - Abdul Shaban II WHAT IS TO BE DONE ABOUT CASTE? 5. Caste Violence against Dalits: Causes and Remedy - Anand Teltumbde 6. Violence and Politics: Two Cases of Dalit Women in - Uttar Pradesh Badri Narayan 7. 'A Part Apart': Dr Ambedkar's Indictment of the Hindu Social Order - V. Geetha III GENEALOGIES OF GENDER, POWER, AND RESISTANCE 8. The Unruly Margins: Reflections on Violence in Public in Mumbai - Shilpa Phadke 9. Witches: Through Changing Contexts Women Remain the Target - Dev Nathan, Govind Kelkar, and Shivani Satija 10. Unearthing a Terrible Beauty: Violence and the Politics of Choices in Assam - Sanjay Barbora IV THE IMPUNITY GRID 11. Indian Maoism: As Victim and Agency of Violence - Sumanta Banerjee 12. The Violence of Postcolonial Spaces: Kudankulam - Itty Abraham 13. On Structural Violence Akhil Gupta 14. The Economics of Violence and the Violence of Economics Jayati Ghosh Index About the Editor and Contributors ...
