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Title Rethinking law and violence / edited by Latika Vashist, Jyoti Dogra Sood
Edition First edition
Published New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 394 pages)
Contents The real of law / Anup Dhar -- 'Human rights', 'Rule of law', and 'Violence' / Sayres Rudy -- Hegemony without dominance / Vishnupad -- Law at the heart of violence / Nikita Agarwal -- Violent beasts and legal animals / Abhayraj Naik and Rachel Chenchiah -- Violence, desire, and death penalty / Amit Bindal -- Violence against the law / Ashley Tellis -- Law, violence, and sexual consent / Latika Vashist -- Negated agency, silenced voice, and the continued negotiations in the spaces within / Khushboo Jain -- Reflections on the future of violence / Shiv Visvanathan
Summary Conceptualized outside the theoretical framing of both liberal as well as critical approaches, this text re-imagines the law by exploring the contradictions and polarities of in terms of its relationship with violence. It encompasses and interweaves themes and ideas as diverse as death penalty, community might, state sovereignty on the one hand, to animal rights, sexual consent, children's agency and LGBT rights, on the other
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital cover (viewed on August 31, 2020)
Subject Law -- Philosophy.
Violence -- Philosophy
Law -- India -- Philosophy
Violence -- India
Law -- Philosophy
Violence
Violence -- Philosophy
Jurisprudence & general issues.
Law.
India
Form Electronic book
Author Vashist, Latika, editor
Sood, Jyoti Dogra, editor
ISBN 9780190992927
0190992921