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Auteur(s) : Mukhopadhyay, Amrita
Titre(s) : The social and legal regulation of domestic violence in the Kesarwani community [Texte imprimé] : Kolkata, India and beyond / Amrita Mukhopadhyay
Publication : Abingdon ; New York (N.Y.) : Routledge, 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii-191 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Directions and developments in criminal justice and law ; 6
Lien à la collection : Directions and developments in criminal justice and law
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-185) and index
Texte remanié de : Doctoral thesis : School of social sciences : Western Sydney University
: 2021
"This book examines the social and legal regulation of domestic violence (DV) within
the Kesarwani business community following the enactment of the Protection of Women
from Domestic Violence Act 2005. It analyses the existence of the formal law in Kolkata
and the relevance of the law in the familial lives of the Kesarwani community. The
book offers a new conceptualisation of examining the relationship between formal law
and social life. It provides a deep insight into how living with violence becomes
a way of living and how the disposition to familial violence exists with social advantage
and privilege. Explaining the functioning of the formal DV framework in non-legal
terms as it exists on the paper, the book shows the ways in which this one law sought
to democratise the family unit and overhaul the legal process in favour of DV victims
in India. Most of all it hopes to show through the Kolkata study that caste and class,
social structures that regulate and define social life globally, must remain critical
to discussions of the social and legal regulation of DV in Kolkata, India or anywhere
in the world. The book uses ethnography as a research methodology and traverses different
locations in the Kesarwani community, and outside the community in Kolkata, to examine
the relevance of the formal law in the lives of Kesarwani women. While the study is
in India (and in a non-western context), the theme of the study - the social and legal
regulation - remains relevant to contemporary debates on the efficacy of formal law
in addressing coercive control in the western world. Notably, the book makes the formal
domestic violence law legible for non-legal professionals by explaining the formal
legal framework of domestic violence envisaged in the PWDVA. This book will be of
interest to students and scholars of law, criminal justice, sociology, anthropology,
women's studies, and political science. It will also appeal to social service providers
and practitioners working in the area of domestic violence, legal regulation, social
control of women, gender, caste, class and family business"
Sujet(s) : Violence familiale -- Société -- Calcutta (Inde)
Violence familiale -- Droit -- Calcutta (Inde)
Violence envers les femmes -- Calcutta (Inde)
Indice(s) Dewey :
362.829 20954 (23e éd.) = Mauvais traitements dans la famille - Asie du Sud Inde
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781032254340. - ISBN 1032254343
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47096138q
Notice n° :
FRBNF47096138
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; Gendered Violence in India ; The Protection of Women from Domestic
Violence Act 2005 ; Symbolic Violence and Kesarwani Women in Kolkata ; Physical
Violence within the Kesarwani Community ; The Domestic Violence Framework in Kolkata
; Conclusion
