A Jurisprudence of Conversations
Law, Life and Feminism in Post-colonial India
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2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-58156-1 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
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Grounded in empirical research, this book shows how feminists, as activists and scholars, made relationships of reciprocity central to their engagement of life and law through conversation. It inaugurates a new method for thinking about law and feminist jurisprudence, one that takes into account the hierarchies in Indian academic practices.
How do feminists, as lawyers and activists, think about, and do law, in a way that makes life more meaningful and just? How are law and feminism called into relation, given meaning, engaged with, used, refused, adapted and brought to life through collaborative action? Grounded in empirical studies, this book is both a history of the emergence of feminist jurisprudence in post-colonial India and a model of innovative legal research. The book inaugurates a creative practice of scholarly activism that engages a new way of thinking about law and feminist jurisprudence, one that is geared to acknowledge and take responsibility for the hierarchies in Indian academic practices. Its method of conversation and accountability continues the feminist tradition of taking reciprocity and the time and place of collaboration seriously. By bringing legal academics and sex worker activists into conversation, the book helps make visible the specific ties between post-colonial life and law and joins the work of refusing and reimagining the hierarchical formation of legal knowledge in a caste-based Indian society. A significant contribution to the history and practice of feminist jurisprudence in post-colonial India, A Jurisprudence of Conversations will appeal to both an academic and an activist readership.
How do feminists, as lawyers and activists, think about, and do law, in a way that makes life more meaningful and just? How are law and feminism called into relation, given meaning, engaged with, used, refused, adapted and brought to life through collaborative action? Grounded in empirical studies, this book is both a history of the emergence of feminist jurisprudence in post-colonial India and a model of innovative legal research. The book inaugurates a creative practice of scholarly activism that engages a new way of thinking about law and feminist jurisprudence, one that is geared to acknowledge and take responsibility for the hierarchies in Indian academic practices. Its method of conversation and accountability continues the feminist tradition of taking reciprocity and the time and place of collaboration seriously. By bringing legal academics and sex worker activists into conversation, the book helps make visible the specific ties between post-colonial life and law and joins the work of refusing and reimagining the hierarchical formation of legal knowledge in a caste-based Indian society. A significant contribution to the history and practice of feminist jurisprudence in post-colonial India, A Jurisprudence of Conversations will appeal to both an academic and an activist readership.
Debolina Dutta is a Research Fellow at Melbourne Law School's ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW). She has a long-standing association with the sex workers' movement in India and is the co-director of the award-winning documentary film We Are Foot Soldiers (2011) on the activism of sex workers' children in Kolkata.
Part A. Setting the Stage: 1. Knowledge and its relations; 2. Adda as method; Part B. Performing Adda: 3. Sex worker feminist jurisprudence I: DMSC; 4. Sex worker feminist jurisprudence II: VAMP; 5. Academic feminist jurisprudence: Upendra Baxi and Ratna Kapur; 6. Towards a feminist jurisprudence of conversations.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Law in Context |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-58156-2 / 1009581562 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-58156-1 / 9781009581561 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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