Humiliation
Claims and Context
Published in December 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-0-19-807492-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this pioneering work in the field of political and moral theory, the contributors explore the complex and varied meanings, contexts, forms, and languages of humiliation within an interdisciplinary framework. The essays unfold the meaning of humiliation by juxtaposing it with other concepts such as shame, disgust, discrimination, degradation, and segregation.
They also interrogate the structures that underlie and renew various forms of humiliation. The collection presents a wide-ranging comparative perspective on various forms of humiliation--racial humiliation in the context of colonialism, the humiliation of working classes in the Bombay textile strike of 1982, caste-based humiliation through the practice of untouchability, and various forms of gender humiliation.
They also interrogate the structures that underlie and renew various forms of humiliation. The collection presents a wide-ranging comparative perspective on various forms of humiliation--racial humiliation in the context of colonialism, the humiliation of working classes in the Bombay textile strike of 1982, caste-based humiliation through the practice of untouchability, and various forms of gender humiliation.
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Series
Edition
UK edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Students, teachers, and scholars of moral philosophy, sociology, anthropology, social history, political theory, legal studies, and literature.
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-807492-2 (9780198074922)
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Person
Gopal Guru is Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Content
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; PREFACE ; INTRODUCTION: THEORIZING HUMILIATION, GOPAL GURU ; SECTION I: FOREGROUNDING HUMILIATION AS CLAIM ; 1. Logic of Humiliation, Bhikhu Parekh ; 2. Humiliation: Politics and the Cultural Psychology of the Limits of Human Degradation, Ashis Nandy ; 3. Humiliation and Justice, Upendra Baxi ; 4. Understanding Humiliation, Sanjay Palshikar ; SECTION II: CONTEXTUALIZING HUMILIATION ; 5. Bereft of Being: The Humiliations of Untouchability, V. Geetha ; 6. Untouchability, Filth, and the Public Domain, Valerian Rodrigues ; 7. Humiliation in a Crematorium, Peter Ronald deSouza ; 8. Equality for What? Or the Troublesome Relation between Egalitarianism and Respect, Neera Chandhoke ; SECTION III: SOCIETY, ECONOMY, AND HUMILIATION ; 9. Political Economy of Humiliation: Tale of a Failed Strike, Suhas Palshikar ; 10. Against Untouchability: The Discourses of Gandhi and Ambedkar, Thomas Pantham ; 11. Rejection of Rejection: Foregrounding Self-respect, Gopal Guru ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS