Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India by Fuchs, Sandhya

Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India

Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate...
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Author: Sandhya Fuchs
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Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India by Fuchs, Sandhya

Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India

BD$76.11

Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India

BD$76.11
Author: Sandhya Fuchs
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the political fore. In 2019, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice urgently asked how legal systems can counter bias and discrimination. In India, a nation with vast socio-cultural diversity, and a complex colonial past, questions about the relationship between law and histories of oppression have become particularly pressing. Recently, India has seen a rise in violence against Dalits (ex-untouchables) and other minorities. Consequently, an emerging "Dalit Lives Matter" movement has campaigned for the effective implementation of India's only hate crime law: the 1989 Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act (PoA).

Drawing on long-term fieldwork with Dalit survivors of caste atrocities, human rights NGOs, police, and judiciary, Sandhya Fuchs unveils how Dalit communities in the state of Rajasthan interpret and mobilize the PoA. Fuchs shows that the PoA has emerged as a project of legal meliorism: the idea that persistent and creative legal labor can gradually improve the oppressive conditions that characterize Dalit lives. Moving beyond statistics and judicial arguments, Fuchs uses the intimate lens of personal narratives to lay bare how legal processes converge and conflict with political and gendered concerns about justice for caste atrocities, creating new controversies, inequalities, and hopes.



Author: Sandhya Fuchs
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 06/18/2024
Pages: 358
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781503639362

About the Author
Sandhya Fuchs is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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