{"product_id":"fragile-hope-seeking-justice-for-hate-crimes-in-india-hardback-9781503638341","title":"Fragile Hope; Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India (Hardback) 9781503638341","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFragile Hope\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSeeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSandhya Fuchs (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503638341\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e358 pages, 11 halftones, 2 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.58 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is an outstanding book, a deeply thoughtful, imaginative, and occasionally startling piece of work. Through examining the social world of the Prevention Against Atrocities Act, it sets out in moving detail the challenges and possibilities of using the law to challenge ingrained forms of discrimination and violence. While pointing out the limits of the transformative power of the law, Fuchs opens up another level of analysis that explores its unexpected effects and possibilities. In doing so, this is a piece of work that is never willing to simply settle for easy answers, forcing us to ask some hard questions. Throughout, the book is highly engaging, beautifully written, and sensitive in its handling of the material and its subjects, making an important contribution to the social study of law and violence in South Asia.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Tobias Kelly, author of \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty\u003c\/i\u003e \"This is a remarkable book focused on the social life of a law which connects to the deepest and most violent contradictions in contemporary Indian society. Fuchs sensitively explores how the processes around the Prevention of Atrocities Act bring into play the very caste-based violence, patriarchal authority, and silencing of victims that the law intends to prevent. It is a work of compassionate scholarship, with the kind of respect and curiosity that marks anthropology at its best. There are broader lessons here on legal processes amidst inequality: what does it take to be a 'credible complainant'; how are cases rendered 'false', what is the meaning of 'compromise'? The answers depart from what legal professionals might expect, showing how necessary this ethnographic work is to the understanding of law and the meaning of justice in social reality.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —David Mosse, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India\u003c\/i\u003e \"Told through the harrowing stories of caste-based violence, a deeply moving and nuanced account of the hope offered by one of the world's most significant hate-crime laws to bring justice for Dalits while at the same time generating new forms of intra community violence. A beacon of what an anthropology that cares – based on deep ethnography – can produce, this is a must read for all concerned with hate-crime violence, race and caste, South Asia, and the social life of law.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Alpa Shah, author of \u003ci\u003eNightmarch: A Journey into India's Naxal Heartlands\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eFragile Hope\u003c\/i\u003e stands out as a pertinent and significant scholarly work. Beyond the technicalities of the law, the book explores the personal narratives and oppressed lives of the Dalits who mobilize creative legal labor to effect societal transformation.\"—Adelina Tratarou, \u003ci\u003eLegal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis\u003c\/i\u003e \"The volume's strength is its captivating and insightful ethnographic field narratives. It also highlights the paucity of research on truth and reconciliation in cases of caste-based atrocities. With its compelling narratives, \u003ci\u003eFragile Hope\u003c\/i\u003e underscores the need for strategies beyond legal mechanisms to combat caste-based violence. The volume is methodologically significant for anthropologists and ethnographers and is essential reading for scholars, activists, and policymakers engaged with restorative justice practices, human rights, caste, law, and gender issues.\"—Gaurav J. Pathania, \u003ci\u003eZeitschrift für Ethnologie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the political fore. In 2019, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice urgently asked how legal systems can counter bias and discrimination. In India, a nation with vast socio-cultural diversity, and a complex colonial past, questions about the relationship between law and histories of oppression have become particularly pressing. Recently, India has seen a rise in violence against Dalits (ex-untouchables) and other minorities. Consequently, an emerging \"Dalit Lives Matter\" movement has campaigned for the effective implementation of India's only hate crime law: the 1989 Scheduled Castes\/Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act (PoA).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on long-term fieldwork with Dalit survivors of caste atrocities, human rights NGOs, police, and judiciary, Sandhya Fuchs unveils how Dalit communities in the state of Rajasthan interpret and mobilize the PoA. Fuchs shows that the PoA has emerged as a project of legal meliorism: the idea that persistent and creative legal labor can gradually improve the oppressive conditions that characterize Dalit lives. Moving beyond statistics and judicial arguments, Fuchs uses the intimate lens of personal narratives to lay bare how legal processes converge and conflict with political and gendered concerns about justice for caste atrocities, creating new controversies, inequalities, and hopes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface: Positioning Accountability\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Main Interlocutors\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  PART I. A Kaleidoscope of Imaginaries\u003cbr\u003e  1. The Prevention of Atrocities Act: A Social Genealogy\u003cbr\u003e  2. Who Owns the Law? Politics and Intimacies of Atrocity Cases\u003cbr\u003e  PART II. When Atrocities Become Cases:Rewriting Law's Allegiance\u003cbr\u003e  3. The Case That Could Not Be: Police Translations at the Margins\u003cbr\u003e  4. Re-)writing Law's Allegiance? Rumors, Deep Truths, and Strategic Disobedience\u003cbr\u003e  5. \"\u003cbr\u003eYou Must Not Compromise!\"\u003cbr\u003e: Contested Collectives and Complex Complicities160\u003cbr\u003e  PART III Law at the Limits of Hate and Hope\u003cbr\u003e  6. Fields of Massacre: A \"\u003cbr\u003eHollow\"\u003cbr\u003e Law\u003cbr\u003e  7. Habits of Hopefulness:Legal Labors for a Better Future\u003cbr\u003e  Epilogue: New Directions\u003cbr\u003e  Appendix: The 1989 Scheduled Castes\/Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act as per the Amendments of 2015\u003cbr\u003e  Glossary\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  References\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610708832536,"sku":"9781503638341","price":103.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fragile-hope-seeking-justice-for-hate-crimes-in-india-hardback-9781503638341","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}