The 2021 Radha Devi Joshi Lecture presents
Insurgent Realisms and Ideas of justice in India: Imagining the 'Corruption Complex' Through Law and Literature
Kalpana Kannabiran
Feminist Sociologist, Legal Researcher and Human Rights Campaigner
Friday, March 5, 2021
Virtual Event
Kalpana Kannabiran is a feminist sociologist, legal researcher and human rights campaigner. Based in Hyderabad, India, she co-founded Asmita Resource Centre for Women in 1991, was on the founding faculty of NALSAR University of Law (1999-2009), and is Professor and Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, a position she has held since March 2011. Author of Tools of Justice: Non-discrimination and the Indian Constitution (2012), among others and editor of several collections, her interdisciplinary writing straddles law, gender studies, literature, and human rights, among others.