Alternate Realities. Book review of Ratna Kapur, Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl
Alternate Realties about:reader?url= Alternate Realties Rajshree Chandra minutes In an elegantly written book, Ratna Kapur takes the critique of the human rights project a step further to make a case for alternative registers of freedom and emancipation. Human rights (HR), she argues, are formulated and imposed by the liberal imaginaries; they are Eurocentric, overwhelmingly western, parochial, provincialised and indeed a ‘fishbowl’. Therefore, all projects of emancipation and freedom, in particular issues that relate to gender, should be delinked from human rights frames. The pursuit of freedom requires that spaces of alterity be sought, for there are alternate, divergent understandings of freedom outside of the liberal and neoliberal imaginaries. What makes the critique and the quest for alterity particularly interesting is the use of two evocative metaphors. The first is the metaphor of a ‘fishbowl’ which illustrates a space that is limited, constrained and enclosed. The book likens the promise of human rights to ‘freedom in a fishbowl’. HR project, it states, promotes an ‘e
Roy, Alpana "Erotic Justice: Law and the New Politics of Post Colonialism by Ratna Kapur" [] SydLawRw 31; () 27(3) Sydney Law Review
EROTIC JUSTICE: LAW AND THE NEW POLITICS OF POSTCOLONIALISM by Ratna Kapur, London, Glass House Press, , pp, ISBN 1 9
Ratna Kapur&#;s Erotic Justice is yet another recent addition to the vast and heterogeneous field of postcolonial discourse. Firmly placing her theoretical trajectories within postcolonial legal feminism, Professor Kapur examines the theme of the subaltern subject. Although her text focuses primarily on the issue of women, she also considers other subjects at the margins of traditional legal discourse, such as transnational migrants, sexual minorities, and Muslims. In her work, she reconceptualises law as a system of domination and resistance, where the role and place of the world&#;s peripheral subjects and cultural Others have been (and continue to be) constructed (and reconstructed). Kapur uses her sexual subalter
Gender and the Rise of the Global Right: A Conversation with Cynthia Enloe, Agnieszka Graff, Ratna Kapur, and Suzanna Danuta Walters
Suzanna Walters (SW): I want to introduce our wonderful guest, Cynthia Enloe—feminist, activist, writer, scholar extraordinaire, research professor at Clark University, author of over a dozen books, and someone who has really been in the forefront of forcing us to think about the relations between gender and militarism and imperialism, in a nut shell—and so much more. It’s such a treat to have you here. I’m Suzanna Walters, the editor of Signs. I am joined here by my wonderful coeditors of the special issue “Gender and the Rise of the Global Right,” Agnieszka Graff from Poland, and Ratna Kapur, who comes to us from Queen Mary University of London. The special issue will be out in spring of , and this discussion with Cynthia is part of that. I should also say it’s part of our initiative at Signs called Ask a Feminist, where we ask a feminist about pressing political issues of the day that the mainstream media generally does not ask feminists about. That is part of a broader initiative called the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, which
Feminist Terrains in Legal Domains: Interdisciplinary Essays on Women and Law in India
The essays in this volume explore the relatively new field of women and law from interdisciplinary, feminist perspectives and help to develop an understanding of feminist legal studies in India. As a collection, the book offers insights about women and law as addressed by feminists from the standpoint of both legal and non-legal disciplines. Individually, the different essays explore the legal terrain through historical and cultural analyses of issues such as women&#;s human rights, gender discrimination, feminist legal scholarship, prostitution, conjugality and the representation of female outlaws in cinema. This varied and contextualised approach explodes the understanding of law as an objective, external, neutral truth. Instead, each writer lays open the contradictory nature of law and shows how it frequently becomes a site of political and ideological struggle.
RATNA KAPUR is an advocate, an activist researcher and a Visiting Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London. She is co-founder of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research, Delhi, and was formerly Visiting Faculty at the
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