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Osuri, Goldie (2015) Sovereignty, postcoloniality, and gendering human rights : rape and occupation. borderlands ejournal, 14 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 1447-0810.
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Abstract
The December 2012 Delhi gang rape case of Jyoti Singh Pandey prompted widespread protests in India, and received global international media coverage. Since the event of the gang rape case, the complexity of feminist, queer, Hindu nationalist, and legal discourses in India also sheds light on state sovereignty and its investments in occupation, suffering and sexual violence in Kashmir and the North East. Attention to sovereignty in relation to bodies assembled by territory, religion, sexuality and gender makes visible an assertive Indian imperialism. This paper explores the ways in which a gendering human rights approach, which resulted in the 2013 anti- rape law is inadequate in thinking through sexual violence, suffering and torture where it concerns occupation. It may be more apt, this paper argues, to think through the practices of sovereignty in the Indian (post) colony.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | borderlands ejournal | ||||
Publisher: | Anthony Burke | ||||
ISSN: | 1447-0810 | ||||
Official Date: | December 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | 14 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 1-21 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 May 2016 | ||||
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