Editors:
- Analyses ‘institutionalization from above’ and ‘institutionalization from below,’ moving away from insitution-orientated approaches
- Brings together work from political scientist, sociologists and anthropologists
- Speaks to contemporary concerns about the limitations and challenges of rights legislated over the last two decades in India and South Asia
Part of the book series: Human Rights Interventions (HURIIN)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book analyses legal orders, actors and democracy in contemporary India, with a particular focus on the everyday contexts and dynamics of human rights, citizenship and socio-economic rights and laws.
The contributions explore both ‘institutionalization from above’, where the judiciary and legislative body aim to govern people, and ‘institutionalization from below’, where the governed attempt to expand their substantive rights embedded within their everyday lives. This analysis identifies contact zones between the two directions, which act as spaces for democratic participation and negotiation. Such a perspective should be useful to both those who are interested in Indian politics, and anthropologists and sociologists working on dynamics of laws and rights.
Reviews
“This book provides new insights into the dynamic interaction between the legal order and its institutionalisation through people’s everyday human rights practices. It is a useful addition to our understanding of the ways in which the struggles for rights by diverse populations in India activate democracy and the rule of law.” (Jayshree Mangubhai, Senior Human Rights Adviser, the Pacific Community (SPC), Fiji)
“Law and Democracy in Contemporary India is an outstanding interdisciplinary contribution to our understanding of the complicated and often ambiguous relationship between justice-seeking, governance, and cultural conflict. The editors have assembled a compelling group of anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists in order to unpack some of the most critical questions confronting the ‘world’s largest democracy.’ The collective result sheds new light on how legal forms and logics emerge through the interplay between what the editors describe as ‘institutionalisation from above’ and ‘institutionalisation from below.’” (Mark Goodale, Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Editors and Affiliations
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Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan
Tatsuya Yamamoto
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Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Tomoaki Ueda
About the editors
Tatsuya Yamamoto is Associate Professor at Shizuoka University, Japan. His research focuses on issues concerning citizenship among Tibetan youth and their identification through Tibetan music and dance.
Tomoaki Ueda is Associate Professor at Toyo University, Japan. He studies nationalist movements in colonial India and party politics in contemporary India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Law and Democracy in Contemporary India
Book Subtitle: Constitution, Contact Zone, and Performing Rights
Editors: Tatsuya Yamamoto, Tomoaki Ueda
Series Title: Human Rights Interventions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95837-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95836-1Published: 12 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95837-8Published: 27 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-5117
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 222
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Human Rights, Sociology of Citizenship, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology