Ongoing Projects
Current research in the Law Initiative is focused on how the discourse of rights designates the realms of family, community, and religion as subordinate and irrational. In rendering these spaces as pre-modern and anti-woman, the modern rights project pays no attention to women’s actions in mobilizing the critical resources of family and community in alleviating their suffering. An important concern is to problematise the notion of agency demanded of a rights-bearing woman, by the citizenship discourse, in the face of intersecting subjections. A. Suneetha and Vasudha Nagaraj work on this project.