Human Rights in Everyday Life in India

The Praxis from Below

Shalu Nigam (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-4929-2 (ISBN)

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The rhetoric of human rights is being contested and debated theoretically at various levels. However, this work takes into account several field-based examples in the Indian context to illustrate how the frameworks of oppression and resistance operate simultaneously. The oppressors are manipulating the rights paradigm to justify oppression, whereas the oppressed leverage the same discourse to contest marginalization and assert their dignity in everyday lives. Despite challenges, the wretched of the Earth are articulating the language of rights to 'educate, organize, and agitate'. The aim is to challenge oppression and formulate positive rights to demand their dues. In the process, these struggles are harnessing lok shakti (people's power) to consolidate the idea of swaraj (self-rule) while shattering the monolithic discourse of rights to imagine a diverse world view. This work suggests reimagining a just world by strengthening the struggles of ordinary people to consolidate the rights framework.

Shalu Nigam is a feminist advocate and researcher working on gender, law, governance, and human rights in India. With a PhD in Social Work and a law degree, she is practicing at the courts of Delhi and is actively engaged with various human rights and women's rights movements and research organizations including the People's Union for Civil Liberties, the Indian Social Institute and the Centre for Women's Development Studies. She was awarded a senior fellowship by the Indian Council of Social Science Research. Her publications include Women and Domestic Violence Law in India: A Quest for Justice, Domestic Violence Law in India: Myth and Misogyny, Dowry is a serious Economic Violence: Rethinking Dowry Law in India, and Single Mothers, Patriarchy, and Citizenship: Rethinking Lone Motherhood from Socio-Legal Perspective. She has also co-authored The Founding Mothers: 15 Women Architects of the Indian Constitution. She regularly contributes to various journals.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.07.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-0364-4929-7 / 1036449297
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-4929-2 / 9781036449292
Zustand	Neuware