In the Shadow of Minority Rights

Decolonising Gender, Liberalism and the Politics of Difference

AvSagnik Dutta

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

How and where do religious minorities claim their rights? This book challenges abstract liberal approaches to minority rights and colonial constructions of the minority. It charts a new way of understanding minority rights based on an exploration of the everyday life of Muslim women's activism in Mumbai and its intersection with transnational feminist networks and a global politics of Islamic reform. It shows how women deploy everyday ideas of ethics and bodily practices to challenge inequality in Muslim family law. They construct a just community based upon the ethical ideals of the Quran and rights guaranteed by the Indian Constitution and negotiate for rights within homes, police stations, and neighbourhoods in ghettoes. Everyday familiarity is interlaced with violence in women's interactions with the state and non-state actors as they claim their rights, and practices of ethics and intimate negotiations with processes of ghettoisation and violence shape the everyday life of rights.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-18
Mått:228 x 152 x 14 mm
Vikt:250 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:198
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009582001

Utforska kategorier

Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik
Lag och samhälle inom Juridik
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Sagnik Dutta is Researcher at the Department of Cultural Studies, Tilburg University, and Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University. They were awarded the Gates Cambridge scholarship for their doctoral studies. They work on decolonial and postcolonial theory, minority citizenship, securitisation, and data justice. Their scholarship has appeared in several prominent peer-reviewed journals.

Recensioner i media

'Dutta's book is both valuable and timely. In an era where discussions of processes of 'decolonisation' are becoming widespread, they provide a valuable corrective: by deploying ethnographic methods, they demonstrate the way in which such processes are lived and practised rather than engaging with them in purely theoretical terms. Indeed, by examining the practical ways in which minority rights and gender are experienced and negotiated in localised settings, Dutta presents a cogent argument that abstract conceptions of rights are insufficient in making sense of complex social and cultural dynamics. The book is a wonderful entrée into a practical and experiential form of comparative political theory that presents a substantive challenge for contemporary political theory, namely, how do theorists comprehend the differences between the practice of political theory and the practices of its individual and collective subjects?' Adrian Little, University of Melbourne

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Ethics: 1. Right to be righteous: constituting rights, travelling constitutions; 2. Becoming equals: gender equality as an ethical commitment; Part II. Spaces: 3. Remaking the ghetto: sites of resistance; 4. Estranged attachments: the carceral state and the everyday life of Muslim law; 5. Between the home and the world: the many publics of Muslim law; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.