
Erotic Justice
Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism
Ratna Kapur(Author)
Routledge Cavendish (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 3. February 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
228 pages
978-1-904385-24-0 (ISBN)
Description
The essays in Erotic Justice address the ways in which law has been implicated in contemporary debates dealing with sexuality, culture and `different' subjects - including women, sexual minorities, Muslims and the transnational migrant. Law is analyzed as a discursive terrain, where these different subjects are excluded or included in the postcolonial present on terms that are reminiscent of the colonial encounter and its treatment of difference.
Bringing a postcolonial feminist legal analysis to her discussion, Kapur is relentless in her critiques on how colonial discourses, cultural essentialism, and victim rhetoric are reproduced in universal, liberal projects such as human rights and international law, as well as in the legal regulation of sexuality and culture in a postcolonial context. Drawing her examples from postcolonial India, Ratna Kapur demonstrates the theoretical and disruptive possibilities that the postcolonial subject brings to international law, human rights, and domestic law. In the process, challenges are offered to the political and theoretical constructions of the nation, sexuality, cultural authenticity, and women's subjectivity.
Bringing a postcolonial feminist legal analysis to her discussion, Kapur is relentless in her critiques on how colonial discourses, cultural essentialism, and victim rhetoric are reproduced in universal, liberal projects such as human rights and international law, as well as in the legal regulation of sexuality and culture in a postcolonial context. Drawing her examples from postcolonial India, Ratna Kapur demonstrates the theoretical and disruptive possibilities that the postcolonial subject brings to international law, human rights, and domestic law. In the process, challenges are offered to the political and theoretical constructions of the nation, sexuality, cultural authenticity, and women's subjectivity.
Reviews / Votes
'In this elegantly argued book, [Kapur] provides a rich account of a series of disruptions that, in itself, is a welcome act of political resistance.' - Social & Legal Studies'Kapur demonstrate[s] the continuing importance of gender and sexuality as sites for critical engagement with liberalism, citizenship, nationalism, and postcolonialism. These are interventions that challenge much recieved orthodoxy and they deserve careful reading.' - Social & Legal Studies
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-904385-24-0 (9781904385240)
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Person
Ratna Kapur is the Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi.
Content
Introduction; New Cosmologies: Mapping the Postcolonial Feminist Legal Project; Erotic Disruptions: Legal Narratives of Culture, Sex and Nation in India; The Tragedy of Victimization Rhetoric: Resurrecting the `Native' Subject in International/Postcolonial Feminist Legal Politics; The `Other' Side of Universality: Cross-Border Movements and the Transnational Migrant Subject.