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Undoing Impunity

Speech after Sexual Violence

By: V. Geetha

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Undoing Impunity

Speech after Sexual Violence

By: V. Geetha

The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the region, a vast body of knowledge on this important - yet silenced - subject. Six country volumes (one each on Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and two on India, as well as two standalone volumes) comprising over fifty research papers and two book-length studies, detail the histories of sexual violence and look at the systemic, institutional, societal, individual and community structures that work together to perpetuate impunity for perpetrators. In this remarkable and wide-ranging study, activist and historian V. Geetha unpacks the meanings of impunity in relation to sexual violence in the context of South Asia. The State's misuse of its own laws against its citizens is only one aspect of the edifice of impunity; its less-understood resilience comes from its consistent denial of the recognition of suffering on the part of victims, and its refusal to allow them the dignity of pain, grief and loss. Time and again, in South Asia, the State has worked to mediate public memory, to manipulate forgetting, particularly in relation to its own acts of commission. It has done this by refusing to take responsibility, not only for its acts but also for the pain such acts have caused. It has denied suffering the eloquence, the words, the expression that it deserves and papered over the hurt of its people with routine government procedures. The author argues that the State and its citizens must work together to accord social recognition to the suffering of victims and survivors of sexual violence, and thereby join in what she calls 'a shared humanity'. While this may or may not produce legal victories, the acknowledgment that the suffering of our fellow citizens is our collective responsibility is an essential first step towards securing justice. It is this that in a fundamental sense challenges and illuminates the contours and details of State impunity, and positions impunity as not merely a legal or political conundrum, but as resolute refusal on the part of State personnel to be part of a shared humanity.

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Zubaan

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9385932152

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9789385932151

Masks and Performance with Everyday Materials

By: Gita Wolf,V. Geetha,Anushka Ravishankar

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Masks and Performance with Everyday Materials

By: Gita Wolf,V. Geetha,Anushka Ravishankar

With reference to South India.

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148

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Tara Publishing

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8186211470

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9788186211472

Religious Faith, Ideology, Citizenship

The View from Below

By: V. Geetha,Nalini Rajan

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Religious Faith, Ideology, Citizenship

The View from Below

By: V. Geetha,Nalini Rajan

This book looks at the triadic relations between faith, the state and political actors, and the ideas that move them. It comprises a set of essays on diverse histories and ideas, ranging from Gandhian civic action to radical free thought in colonial India, from liberation theologies, that take their cue from specific and lived experiences of oppression and humiliation, to the universalism promised by an expansive Islam. Deploying gender and caste as the central analytical categories, these essays suggest that equality and justice rest on the strength and vitality of the exchanges between the worlds of the civic, the religious and the state, and not on their strict separation. Going beyond time-honoured dualities — between the secular and the communal (especially in the Indian context), or the secular and the pre-modern — the book joins the lively debates on secularism that have emerged in the 21st century in West, South and South-east Asia.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000083756

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9781000083750

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India

By: V. Geetha

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India

By: V. Geetha

This book offers a reading of Bhimrao Ambedkar’s engagement with the idea and practice of socialism in India by linking it to his lifelong political and philosophical concerns: the annihilation of the caste system, untouchability and the moral and philosophical systems that justify either. Rather than view his ideas through a socialist lens, the author suggests that it is important to measure the validity of socialist thought and practice in the Indian context, through his critique of the social totality. The book argues its case by presenting a broad and connected overview of his thought world and the global and local influences that shaped it. The themes that are taken up for discussion include: his understanding of the colonial rule and the colonial state; history and progress; nationalism and the questions he posed the socialists; his radical critique of the caste system and Brahmancal philosophies, and his unusual interpretation of Buddhism.

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352

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Springer Nature

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3030803759

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9783030803759

Book's by V. Geetha

Undoing Impunity

Undoing Impunity

Masks and Performance with Everyday Materials

Masks and Performance with Everyday Materials

Religious Faith, Ideology, Citizenship

Religious Faith, Ideology, Citizenship

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India

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