Readings
This page contains a selection of relevant background readings for events and talks at the conference, along with some conference papers. If you would like to make your conference paper available online, please send it to webmaster [at] lassnet [dot] org.
Background readings
- Ashok Agrwaal, In Search of Vanished Blood (on enforced disappearances in Kashmir)
- Upendra Baxi, Judging Emmanuel Levinas? Some Reflections on Reading Levinas, Law, Politics (Modern Law Review 72(1), 116-129, 2009)
- John L. Comarrof and Jean Comarrof, Introduction (Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, 2006)
- Jean Comarrof, Beyond Bare Life: AIDS, (Bio)Politics, and the Neoliberal Order (Public Culture 19:1, 2007)
- Rosemary Coombe in conversation with Lawrence Liang (Contested Commons/Trespassing Publics: A Public Record, January 2005)
- Veena Das, Jihad, fitna, and Muslims in Mumbai [along with commentary and response] (The Immanent Frame, 9 December 2008)
- Peter Fitzpatrick, "What Are the Gods to Us Now?": Secular Theology and the Modernity of Law (Theoretical Inquiries in Law 8:1, January 2007)
- Peter Fitzpatrick, Is humanity enough? The Secular Theology of Human Rights (Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal 1, 2007)
- Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health (New Left Review 45, May-June 2007)
- Srila Roy, The grey zone: the 'ordinary' violence of extraordinary times (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, n.s. 14, 316-333, 2008)
Conference papers