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Towards an Anti-Carceral Politics: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in India

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  • The Carceral Security State

    November 16, 2022 · 2 hr 26 min

    The construction of national security against a propped-up other has been instrumentalised by the colonial and postcolonial Indian state’s enactment of certain laws and deployment of a range of punitive tactics against those it deems…

  • Gender Justice & Anti-carceral Politics

    November 9, 2022 · 1 hr 18 min

    This webinar will seek to engage with the feminist movement in India and its reliance on and opposition to the carceral State in its attempt to frame a critique of carceral politics from a feminist lens.  It will explore the relationship…

  • Caste As Criminality

    November 2, 2022 · 1 hr 18 min

    The carceral state encompasses incarceration as well as ‘a wide range of policies, practices, and institutions that scrutinize individuals and communities - both before and after their contact with the criminal justice system.’ This needs…

  • Rethinking Crime and Punishment in India: Keynote Address

    October 18, 2022 · 1 hr 2 min

    In the joint keynote address that forms the inaugural session of this Webinar series, speakers Darshana Mitra & Jinee Lokaneeta reflect on pertinent themes and questions surrounding the imagination of an anti-carceral politics in a…

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About the show

Rethinking Crime and Punishment in India is a Webinar series co-hosted by CPA Project India, Detention Solidarity, and the Centre for Justice Law and Society, Jindal Global Law School. Over the course of four webinars, we have tried to interrogate issues of crime and punishment in India, particularly concerning caste, gender, and securitisation. We brought together a range of speakers, including those affected by carceral politics, lawyers, scholars, and activists, to open more space for the anti-carceral politics discourse in India.