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Pratiksha Baxi

Pratiksha Baxi

Pratiksha Baxi
Pratiksha Baxi
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for the Study of Law and Governance
Room No
08
Off. Phone
011-26704790
Email
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

Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University (since 30 September 2016).
Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University (since 30 September 2013-2016).
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

Anchored Law and Social Sciences Research Network, LASSnet from 2007-2024

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.

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.