Law and Democracy in Contemporary India Constitution, Contact Zone, and Performing Rights

Law and Democracy in Contemporary India Constitution, Contact Zone, and Performing Rights / edited by Tatsuya Yamamoto, Tomoaki Ueda.

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 legisl...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Yamamoto, Tatsuya (Editor), Ueda, Tomoaki (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Human Rights Interventions
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Social justice.
Human rights.
Citizenship—Sociological aspects.
Economic sociology.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction; Tatsuya Yamamoto
  • 2. Inventing Rights in the Indian Context; Kazuhiro Itakura
  • 3. Who Appoints Judges? Judicial Independence and Democratization of the Judiciary in India; Tomoaki Ueda
  • 4. Citizenship In-between: A Case Study of Tibetan Refugees in India; Tatsuya Yamamoto
  • 5. Rethinking the Reservation System in Contemporary India: A Local Point of View; Kenta Funahashi
  • 6. 'The Right to Know Is the Right to Live': The Right to Information Movement in India; Shinya Ishizaka
  • 7. Protesting the AFSPA in the Indian Periphery: The Anti-Militarisation Movement in Northeast India; Makiko Kimura
  • 8. Justice and Human Rights at the Grassroots Level: Judicial Empowerment in Dalit Activism; Maya Suzuki
  • 9. The Right to Sacredness: Politics Surrounding Wind Power Development in the Thar Desert; Kodai Konishi. .

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