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Pratiksha Baxi

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for the Study of Law and Governance

Room No

Off. Phone

011-26704790

pbaxi@mail.jnu.ac.in, pbaxi@jnu.ac.in

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/pbaxi

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Sociology of Law, Courtroom ethnography, violence, feminist theory, law and sexual violence

Experience

Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University (since 30 September 2013).
Assistant Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University (28 April 2006 to 30 September 2013).

Awards & Honours

ICAS-MP Fellowship, Women as Custodial Minorities: Patriarchy, Prisons and Gender in India, 15 July 2022 to 15 Jan 2023
Infosys Prize 2021 for outstanding contribution in the field of social sciences
Research fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Recht als Kultur", in Bonn Germany, 18 April 2017 – 13 July 2017
Hermès-postdoctoral fellowship awarded in common by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Research, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the Foundation Maison des Sciences de I Homme, 01 September 2010 to 30 November 2010.
British Academy Visiting Fellowship, Diasporic Legalities: The Discourse of "Crimes of Honour" in UK and India, May-July, 2006.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

2014. Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India, Delhi: Oxford University Press (Shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award – Non Fiction).
2014. Sexual Violence and its Discontents, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 43: 139-154, October.
2014. Child Bears Witness: menace, despair and hope in a courtroom in Roma Chatterji ed. Wording the World: Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance, New York: Fordham University Press.
2016. Impractical Topics, Practical Fields: Notes on Researching Sexual Violence in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 51, 18: 80-88, April, Special Issue, Women’s Studies, edited by Kalpana Kannabiran and Padmini Swaminathan.
2018. Inflicting Legal Injuries: The Place of the 'Two-Finger Test' in Indian Rape Law in Anne Bloom, David Engel and Michael McCann (eds.) Injury and Injustice: The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress, Pp. 267-292, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

2022. The Ethnographic Gaze on State Law in India in Marie-Claire Foblets, Mark Goodale, Maria Sapignoli, and Olaf Zenker eds. The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Online First December 2020).
2021. Law, Emasculation, and Sexual Violence in India, Current Anthropology, Volume 62, Supplement 23, Pp. S145-S154.
2021. with Navsharan Singh. Gendering the Pandemic in the Prison, in The India Forum ed. India and the Pandemic: The First Year. Delhi: Orient BlackSwan.
2021. Rape, Retribution, state: on whose bodies? in Ochiai Emiko and Patricia Uberoi eds. Asian Families and Intimacies, SAGE Benchmarks in Sociology, Part 3, Volume II, 275-286, Singapore: SAGE.
2019. Governing India’s Daughters in Niraja Gopal Jayal ed. Re-forming India: The Nation Today, Delhi: Penguin Viking.

Patents (if any)

Not Applicable