The Empire of Disgust
Prejudice, Discrimination, and Policy in India and the US
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436 pages
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ISBN:
9780199487837
Publication date:
06/09/2018
Hardback
436 pages
Edited by Zoya Hasan, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha C. Nussbaum & and Vidhu Verma
In The Empire of Disgust, scholars present an interdisciplinary and comparative study of varieties of stigma and prejudice in India and USA—along the axes of caste, race, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, religion, and economic class—pervading contemporary social and political life. In examining these forms of stigma and their intersections, the contributors present theoretically pluralistic and empirically sensitive accounts that explain group-based stigma and suggest forward-looking remedies, including group resistance to subordination as well as institutional and legal change, equipped to eliminate stigma in its multifaceted forms.
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Edited by Zoya Hasan, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha C. Nussbaum & and Vidhu Verma
Description
All known societies exclude one or more minority groups, frequently employing a rhetoric of disgust to justify stigmatization. For instance, in European anti-Semitism, Jews were considered hyper-physical and crafty; some upper-caste Hindus find the lower castes dirty and untouchable; and people with physical disabilities have been considered subhuman and repulsive. Exclusions vary in their scope and also in the specific disgust-ideologies underlying them. In The Empire of Disgust, scholars present an interdisciplinary and comparative study of varieties of stigma and prejudice in India and USA—along the axes of caste, race, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, religion, and economic class—pervading contemporary social and political life. In examining these forms of stigma and their intersections, the contributors present theoretically pluralistic and empirically sensitive accounts that explain group-based stigma and suggest forward-looking remedies, including group resistance to subordination as well as institutional and legal change, equipped to eliminate stigma in its multifaceted forms.
About the Editors
Zoya Hasan is professor emerita, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Aziz Z. Huq is Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School, USA.
Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School and the Philosophy Department, University of Chicago, USA.
Vidhu Verma is professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Edited by Zoya Hasan, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha C. Nussbaum & and Vidhu Verma
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Dalit Body: A Reading for the Anthropocene
Dipesh Chakrabarty
2. Stigma or Red Tape? Roadblocks in the Use of Affirmative Action
Ashwini Deshpande
3. Of Big Black Bucks and Golden-Haired Little Girls: How Fear of Interracial Sex Informed Brown v. Board of Education and Its Resistance
Justin Driver
4. Four Types of Racism
Emilio Comay del Junco
5. A Social Location Theory of Gender: How Gender Borders Create the Category ‘Woman’
Emily Dupree
6. Gender and Anti-Discrimination Laws in India: Modesty, Honour, and Defiled Bodies
Vidhu Verma
7. Regulating Retirement and Wrinkles in an Age of Prejudice
Saul Levmore
8. Ageing, Stigma, and Disgust
Martha C. Nussbaum
9. Disgust or Equality? Sexual Orientation and Indian Law
Martha C. Nussbaum
10. The Rule of Disgust? Contemporary Transgender Rights Discourse in India
Jeffrey A. Redding
11. Combatting Exclusions through Law: Rights of Transgender People in India
H.R. Vasujith Ram
12. Disability, Exclusions, and Resistance: An Indian Context
Anita Ghai
13. Processes of Shaming: The Limits of Disability Policy in India
Nandini Ghosh
14. What is the Case Against Muslims?
Aziz Z. Huq
15. Muslims and the Politics of Discrimination in India
Zoya Hasan
16. Class and Classification: The Role of Disgust in Regulating Social Status
Laura Weinrib
17. The Point of Discrimination Law: Securing the Freedom to Flourish
Tarunabh Khaitan
18. Economic Theories of Discrimination: The Positive and the Normative
Richard H. McAdams
Notes on the Editors and Contributors
Index
Edited by Zoya Hasan, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha C. Nussbaum & and Vidhu Verma
Features
- The analytical approach towards state institutions that shape the development of anti-discrimination policies should be fruitful for those trying to understand public policies.
- The effort to fuse political theory with issues of democratic processes and social criticisms in this volume is evident in the controversies over aging, gender, sexuality, reservation policy, and legal interventions on stigmatised minority groups.
Edited by Zoya Hasan, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha C. Nussbaum & and Vidhu Verma
Description
All known societies exclude one or more minority groups, frequently employing a rhetoric of disgust to justify stigmatization. For instance, in European anti-Semitism, Jews were considered hyper-physical and crafty; some upper-caste Hindus find the lower castes dirty and untouchable; and people with physical disabilities have been considered subhuman and repulsive. Exclusions vary in their scope and also in the specific disgust-ideologies underlying them. In The Empire of Disgust, scholars present an interdisciplinary and comparative study of varieties of stigma and prejudice in India and USA—along the axes of caste, race, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, religion, and economic class—pervading contemporary social and political life. In examining these forms of stigma and their intersections, the contributors present theoretically pluralistic and empirically sensitive accounts that explain group-based stigma and suggest forward-looking remedies, including group resistance to subordination as well as institutional and legal change, equipped to eliminate stigma in its multifaceted forms.
About the Editors
Zoya Hasan is professor emerita, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Aziz Z. Huq is Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School, USA.
Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School and the Philosophy Department, University of Chicago, USA.
Vidhu Verma is professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Dalit Body: A Reading for the Anthropocene
Dipesh Chakrabarty
2. Stigma or Red Tape? Roadblocks in the Use of Affirmative Action
Ashwini Deshpande
3. Of Big Black Bucks and Golden-Haired Little Girls: How Fear of Interracial Sex Informed Brown v. Board of Education and Its Resistance
Justin Driver
4. Four Types of Racism
Emilio Comay del Junco
5. A Social Location Theory of Gender: How Gender Borders Create the Category ‘Woman’
Emily Dupree
6. Gender and Anti-Discrimination Laws in India: Modesty, Honour, and Defiled Bodies
Vidhu Verma
7. Regulating Retirement and Wrinkles in an Age of Prejudice
Saul Levmore
8. Ageing, Stigma, and Disgust
Martha C. Nussbaum
9. Disgust or Equality? Sexual Orientation and Indian Law
Martha C. Nussbaum
10. The Rule of Disgust? Contemporary Transgender Rights Discourse in India
Jeffrey A. Redding
11. Combatting Exclusions through Law: Rights of Transgender People in India
H.R. Vasujith Ram
12. Disability, Exclusions, and Resistance: An Indian Context
Anita Ghai
13. Processes of Shaming: The Limits of Disability Policy in India
Nandini Ghosh
14. What is the Case Against Muslims?
Aziz Z. Huq
15. Muslims and the Politics of Discrimination in India
Zoya Hasan
16. Class and Classification: The Role of Disgust in Regulating Social Status
Laura Weinrib
17. The Point of Discrimination Law: Securing the Freedom to Flourish
Tarunabh Khaitan
18. Economic Theories of Discrimination: The Positive and the Normative
Richard H. McAdams
Notes on the Editors and Contributors
Index
