Lecture by noted social anthropologist and Professor of Sociology in the Delhi School of Economics, Dr. Nandini Sundar.
Presented in collaboration with Stanford University's Center for Human Rights and International Justice and Center for South Asia and under the aegis of Arts & Justice Series - a speaker series that features timely explorations of religious freedom and the freedom of speech.
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DATE: Wednesday, February 17, 2021
TIME: 9am Berkeley | 12 noon New York | 5pm London | 10pm Lahore | 10:30pm Delhi | Calculate Your Local Time
Registration Information: Please go the the Center for South Asia at Stanford University's event website HERE for information on how to register
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Abstract
This talk explores, in a very preliminary manner, how the normal art and artifice of delivering justice and accepting what is delivered as justice in a highly unequal society, changes under authoritarian regimes. What happens when justice assumes the form of an advertisement for the ruling regime? Drawing on recent acts of omission and commission by the Indian Supreme Court, I try and look at what is being advertised, who is advertising, and who is being persuaded. When the law acts as a vigilante but also draws on its authority, doubling up as both jailor and saviour, what is left of the art of law or justice?
About the Speaker
Nandini Sundar is Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. Her recent publications include, The Burning Forest: Indias War against Maoists (Verso 2019), which has been translated into Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu; and four edited volumes, Reading India: Selections from Economic and Political Weekly 1991-2017 (co-edited, Orient Blackswan, 2019); The Scheduled Tribes and their India (OUP, 2016); Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development (co-edited, Sage 2014); and Inequality and Social Mobility in Post-Reform India, Special Issue of Contemporary South Asia (co-edited, 2016), as well as journal articles on democracy, authoritarianism and academic freedom. She was awarded the M.N. Srinivas Memorial Prize, 2003, the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences (Social Anthropology) in 2010, the Ester Boserup Prize for Development Research, 2016 and the Malcolm Adiseshiah Prize for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies, 2017. Her public writings are available in her blogpost at nandinisundar.blogspot.in.
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The event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
