Oishik Sircar
University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School, Department Member
- Harvard University, Harvard Law School, Department MemberILS Law College ,University of Pune, Department of Law, Alumnus, and 2 moreadd
- Queer Theory, Postcolonial Theory/Subaltern Studies, Postmodern Jurisprudence, Aesthetics and Law, Cultures of Human Rights, Feminist jurisprudence, and 35 moreSociology of Law, Critical Legal Studies, Marxism, Visual Culture, Law and Literature, Law and Violence, South Asian Studies, Sex Work, Law and Sexuality, Critical Pedagogy, Critical Theory, Ambedkar Studies, Critical Migration Studies, Cultural Studies, TWAIL - Third World Approaches to International Law, Neoliberalism, State Impunity, Transitional justice and reconciliation processes, Gender and Sexuality, Intersectionality, Neoliberalism & Governmentality, Law and Empire, Politics of Secularism, Film and Media Studies, Documentary Film, Photography (Visual Studies), Affect (Cultural Theory), Memory Studies, Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, Postcoloniality, Anti-Colonialism, Achille Mbembe, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Viusal Cultureedit
What is Upendra Baxi's contribution to jurisprudence in India? Baxi's single-most important contribution to jurisprudence in India has been to infuse legal scholarship with pathos – the pathos of suffering, resistance, responsibility and... more
What is Upendra Baxi's contribution to jurisprudence in India? Baxi's single-most important contribution to jurisprudence in India has been to infuse legal scholarship with pathos – the pathos of suffering, resistance, responsibility and care. An apocryphal reading of Baxi's work might make us consider his passionate heft as a sentimental inflection, but it will not necessarily lead us to consider this as a jurisprudence. Baxi's pathos endeavors to unmask law's violence and silence about the suffering of those on the margins (even as he has offered ways of working with law); and in turn Baxi's pathos has become marginal to the teaching and learning of jurisprudence in India. Indian legal education is marked by a simultaneous presence and absence of Baxi. His work is acclaimed for its rigorous content, but not necessarily for its innovative forms. While his politics is contingently celebrated, his aesthetics is considered removed from jurisprudential insight. It might be well accepted that Baxi writes with pathos, but does that pathos constitute a jurisprudence? In this essay, I offer some illustrations of Baxi's minor jurisprudence by looking at three particular forms of writings which don't get counted as part of his jurisprudential oeuvre: his lesser known works in the field of law, acknowledgements and footnotes that appear on the margins of major works, and tributes written by him on the passing of his mentors and comrades. My choice of the selected references has to do particularly with how these writings have helped me think through my own work as a law teacher and scholar.
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Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Jurisprudence, Media and Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Violence, and 11 moreLaw and Society, Law and Literature, Political Violence, Memory Studies, Collective Memory, Indian Law, India, Law and Film, Secularism, Indian Cinema, Bollywood, Film Studies, South Asia, Media, and Aesthetics and Law
What does it mean for a man to conduct oneself as a feminist? It is this question that the author, a legal academic, dwells on in this essay. The article can be seen as a jurisdictional auto-critique about feminism's relationship with... more
What does it mean for a man to conduct oneself as a feminist? It is this question that the author, a legal academic, dwells on in this essay. The article can be seen as a jurisdictional auto-critique about feminism's relationship with law, which by extension is a comment on the author's relationship with both law and feminism and his attempt to fashion a lawful feminist self as a man.
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Research Interests: Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Reproduction, Feminism, Modernity, and 15 moreMarxism and Sexuality, Neoliberalism, Postcolonial Theory, Abortion, Sexuality Studies, Law and Sexuality, Maternity, Queer, Twentieth-Century Australian History, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Anti colonial Thought, Queer Imperialism, Lesbian and Gay History, Citrizenship, and Sexualtiy Gender and National Identity
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In the last 15 years, queer movements in many parts of the world have helped secure the rights of queer people. These moments have been accompanied by the brutal rise of crony capitalism, the violent consequences of the ‘war on terror’,... more
In the last 15 years, queer movements in many parts of the world have helped secure the rights of queer people. These moments have been accompanied by the brutal rise of crony capitalism, the violent consequences of the ‘war on terror’, the hyper-juridification of politics, the financialization/managerialization of social movements and the medicalization of non-heteronormative identities/practices. How do we critically read the celebratory global proliferation of queer rights in these neoliberal times?
This volume responds to the complicated moment in the history of queer struggles by analysing laws, state policies and cultures of activism, to show how new intimacies between queer sexuality and neoliberalism that celebrate modernity and the birth of the liberated sexual citizen, are in fact, reproducing the old colonial desire of civilizing the native. By paying particular attention to the problematics of race, religion and class, this volume engages in a rigorous, self-reflexive critique of global queer politics and its engagements, confrontations, and negotiations with modernity and its investments in liberalism, legalism and militarism, with the objective of queering the ethics of our queer politics.
This volume responds to the complicated moment in the history of queer struggles by analysing laws, state policies and cultures of activism, to show how new intimacies between queer sexuality and neoliberalism that celebrate modernity and the birth of the liberated sexual citizen, are in fact, reproducing the old colonial desire of civilizing the native. By paying particular attention to the problematics of race, religion and class, this volume engages in a rigorous, self-reflexive critique of global queer politics and its engagements, confrontations, and negotiations with modernity and its investments in liberalism, legalism and militarism, with the objective of queering the ethics of our queer politics.
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Criminal Law, Jurisprudence, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, and 16 moreAcademic Freedom, International Law, Postcolonial Studies, Queer Theory, Race and Racism, Gender and Sexuality, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, Neoliberalism, Islamophobia, Cinema, Neoliberalisms and the Transformation of the Cultural Sphere, Settler Colonial Studies, Anti-Racism, Homonationalism, and Pinkwashing Israel and Homonationalism
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Jindal Global Law Review/ Special Double Issue Part II/ Volume 4, Issue 2/ November 2013
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Jindal Global Law Review/ Special Double Issue Part I/ Volume 4, Issue 1/ August 2012
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On our way to Chamanpura, a working class locality in Ahmedabad, Farooq bhai suggested that we pick up Imtiaz. It was well past lunch time, but he insisted that we visit Gulbarg Society before heading to Teen Darwaja to eat kabab and... more
On our way to Chamanpura, a working class locality in Ahmedabad, Farooq bhai suggested that we pick up Imtiaz. It was well past lunch time, but he insisted that we visit Gulbarg Society before heading to Teen Darwaja to eat kabab and halwa. Farooq had been driving me around the city since the morning. I'd got to know him a few days back when I arrived in Ahmedabad - having hired his auto-rickshaw at the railway station. On the way to the place where I was staying, I told him why I was in the city - to look for public remnants of the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom for a research project on collective memories of mass violence. I felt embarrassingly voyeuristic to say this even as I wanted to befriend Farooq, but his relaxed disposition had offered an invitation that allowed me to rest the inhibitions of a first meeting. He very forthcomingly agreed to show me around a few days later.
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Research Interests: Development Studies, Youth Studies, Human Rights, Gender and Sexuality, Human Rights Education, and 3 morePeace and Conflict Resolution, Human Rights, International Development, Diversity, Training, Capacity Building, Peacebuilding, Corporate Social Responsibility Youth Leadership, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights Defenders
Post-liberalization India has seen a simultaneous rise in the rights demands by the sexually marginalized, and that of a market friendly Hindu nationalism. This simultaneity tells a story of fractures and fissures that has resulted in... more
Post-liberalization India has seen a simultaneous rise in the rights demands by the sexually marginalized, and that of a market friendly Hindu nationalism. This simultaneity tells a story of fractures and fissures that has resulted in moments of both celebration and defeat for India's vibrant queer rights movements. This story is of the at once intimate and vexed relationship between the Indian nation-state, its neo-liberalizing market and sexual subalterns. By considering the Delhi High Court's landmark 2009 Naz Foundation judgment (that decriminalized sodomy) as a flash-point moment of this story, this talk will offer some thoughts about the challenges facing queer rights struggles in the new India -- especially in the light of the re-criminalization of sodomy by the Supreme Court in 2013 (that dismissed the Naz judgment) and the Hindu nationalist BJP government's coming to power.
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An in-depth interview with Ratna Kapur and Brenda Cossman on the completion of 20 years since the publication of their 1996 book Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India. I provide a detailed introduction to the book which... more
An in-depth interview with Ratna Kapur and Brenda Cossman on the completion of 20 years since the publication of their 1996 book Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India. I provide a detailed introduction to the book which is followed by the interview.