Humiliation

Claims and Context
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ISBN: 978-0-19-807492-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 204 g

Reihe: Oxford India Paperbacks

Pioneering study in fields of moral and political theory.
Discusses multiple meanings, practices, contexts, forms, and languages of humiliation.
Interdisciplinary study.
Contributors include renowned scholars like Bhikhu Parekh, Ashis Nandy, and Upendra Baxi.

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.

Zielgruppe

Students, teachers, and scholars of moral philosophy, sociology, anthropology, social history, political theory, legal studies, and literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guru, Gopal

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Guru, Gopal
Gopal Guru is Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Gopal Guru is Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Contributors:
Upendra Baxi; Neera Chandhoke; Peter Ronald deSouza; V. Geetha; Gopal Guru; Ashis Nandy; Sanjay Palshikar; Suhas Palshikar; Thomas Pantham; Bhikhu Parekh; Valerian Rodrigues