A Research and Dialogue Program on Social Justice
Publications
Reports
·
Dialogues on Justice – A Report /
by
Samir Kr. Das, Sanam Roohi, and Ranabir Samaddar (CRG, 2007) -
http://mcrg.ac.in/Dialogues_on_Justice.pdf
·
Report on the Conference on “Spheres of
Justice” /
by Giorgio Grappi -
http://mcrg.ac.in/Grappi.htm and
http://mcrg.ac.in/S_justice.htm
·
A Report on a Workshop with Etienne Balibar
/ by Samir Kr. Das and Sanam Roohi -
http://mcrg.ac.in/Report_Etienne.htm
Distinguished Lecture
·
Justice and Equality – A Political Dilemma?
Pascal, Plato, Marx (CRG, 2007)
http://mcrg.ac.in/Lecture_Etienne.pdf
Books
The four-volume series under publication aims is to bring out various forms of justice in reality – social claim as justice, attainment and the restoration of dignity as justice, end to discrimination as justice, retribution as justice, conciliation of claims as justice, social idea of minimal justice, positive discrimination as justice, protection of the vulnerable sections of society as justice, and finally autonomy as justice. Also the series demonstrates, justice can and does have strong gender implications.
The series is strongly ethnographic in approach in place of being philosophical, though it does not hesitate to reflect on given philosophical truths in the light of its ethnographic findings. The studies bring out how social justice as an arena is only partly covered by law; rest is covered by social and political ideas and practices. Ethical ideas about honor, right, respect, autonomy, claim, share, revenge, and shame also play significant role in determining mores of justice. In sum, the approach of the inquiry is in part historical, part ethnographic, and part analytic. The purpose is composite consisting of the following aims:
Below is a
description of the four volumes.
·
Volume 1:
Social
Justice and Enlightenment:
What is happening in West Bengal? /
Editors: Samir Kumar Das and Pradip Kumar Bose (Contributors: Kumar Rana, Amites
Mukhopadhyay, Ratan Khasnabis, Roshan Rai, and Subhas Ranjan Cakroborty)
·
Volume II:
Justice and Law:
The Limits of the Deliverables of Law
/ Editors:
Bharat
Bhushan and Ashok Agrwaal
(Contributors:
Oishik Sircar, Bharat Bhushan, Ashok Agrwaal, Samir Kumar Das, and Sabyasachi
Basu Ray Choudhury)
·
Volume III:
Marginalities
and Justice
/ Editors: Paula Banerjee and Sanjay Chaturvedi (Contributors: Paula Banerjee,
Badri Narayan, Manish Jha, Amit Prakash, and Sanjay Chaturvedi)
·
Volume IV:
Key Texts on Justice - A Compendium
/
Editors: Sanam Roohi and Ranabir Samaddar
Ranabir Samaddar is the editor-in-chief of this 4 volume series.
In course of three years of the program
several public lectures were held on various aspects of social justice. Several
of them were held in collaboration with different institutions thereby
acquainting of the research and dialogue program on social justice to many
students, teachers, and social activists. Below is given a list of the lectures
(http://mcrg.ac.in/pl.htm)
·
Environmental Justice
/ by Sanjay Chaturvedi, Professor and Coordinator, Centre for the Study of
Geopolitics and Department of Political Science, Punjab University, Chandigarh,
18 July 2006 (CRG seminar room)
·
Eviction, Resettlement, and the Test of
Justice / by Professor Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Calcutta Research
Group, 12 December 2006 (in Darjeeling in collaboration with St. Joseph College)
·
How Should We Respond to the Cultural
Injustices of Colonialism / by Rajeev Bhargava, Professor and
Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 13 March, 2007 (in
Calcutta University in collaboration with the South and South East Asian Studies
Department, Calcutta University)
·
The Scope of Transitional Justice in India
/ by Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Professor, Department of Political Science,
Rabindra Bharati University, 13 March, 2007 (in Calcutta University in
collaboration with the South and South East Asian Studies Department, Calcutta
University)
·
Gender
Justice and Muslim Women of Calcutta
/ by Sanam Roohi,
Research Associate, Calcutta Research Group, 20 April 2007 (CRG’s seminar room)
·
Bangladeshi Immigration to Assam in India – The Print Media Discourse
/ by Ksenia Glebova, Honorary Research Associate, Calcutta Research Group, 20
April 2007 (CRG CRG seminar room)
·
Environmental Security
/ by Robert Kaplan, Professor of Political Science, Naval Academy, Annapolis,
U.S.A, 21 June 2007 (CRG seminar room)
·
Provoking Preferences by Changing Beliefs
/ by Margaret Levi, Jere L. Bacharach Professor of International Studies,
Director, CHAOS (Comparative Historical Analysis of Organizations and States),
and previous president of the American Political Science Association, 25 July
2007 (CRG seminar room)
·
Justice
and Equality - A Political Dilemma?
/ by Etienne Balibar, Emeritus Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy,
Paris X, Nanterre, and Distinguished Professor of Humanities, University of
California, Irvine, 21 September 2007 (CRG seminar room)
·
Coolie
Migration in the Colonial Era
/ by Jan Breman, Professor of Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, 13
December 2007 (CRG seminar room)
·
Globalization, Inequality and Urban Health /
by Carolyn
Stephens, Epidemiologist and Senior Lecturer of London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine, 18 January 2008 (CRG seminar room)
·
The Impact of Globalization on French Law: An Example of
Relations between Democracy and Internationalization /
by Jean Louis Halperin, Professor of Law, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris,
28 April 2008 (Asiatic Society in collaboration with the Asiatic Society)
·
Dialogues on Justice / by Vinay Lal, Professor of
University of California, Los Angeles, 14 July 2008 (Presidency College
in collaboration with the Department of Political Science, Presidency College,
Kolkata)
·
Tolerance Established by Law: The Autonomy of South Tyrol
in Italy / by Eva Pföstl , Director, Istituto di Studi Politici S. Pio V,
Department of Law and Economics, Rome University, 14 August 2008 (Rabindra
Bharati University in collaboration with the Departemnt of Political Science,
Rabindra Bharati University); also 17 August 2008 (in collaboration with the
West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences at the WBNUJS)
·
Sociological Imagination: Situating Charles Tilly
/ by Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Calcutta Research Group, 18 August 2008 (CRG
seminar room)
·
Climate Change, Globalisation and
Environmental Justice / by Sanjay Chaturvedi, Professor and
Coordinator, Centre for the Study of Geopolitics and Department of Political
Science, Punjab University, Chandigarh, 22 August 2008 ((in Calcutta University
in collaboration with the South and South East Asian Studies Department,
Calcutta University)
·
The Citizen and the Migrant: The Politics of Justice and
(Non) Belongingness / by Ratna Kapur, Professor and Director, Centre for Feminist
Legal Research, New Delhi, 30 September 2008 ((in collaboration with the West
Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences at the WBNUJS)
·
Development, Justice and Governance /
by Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Calcutta Research Group, 22 December 2008, (in
collaboration with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)