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kalpana kannabiran

kalpana kannabirankalpana kannabirankalpana kannabiran

sociologist, legal researcher & author

sociologist, legal researcher & authorsociologist, legal researcher & authorsociologist, legal researcher & author

JOURNAL ARTICLES

1. “Caste and Gender: Understanding Dynamics of Power and Violence,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 26, No. 37 (14-20 Sep 1991). Pp. 2130-2133.  Co-author V. Kannabiran.


2. “The Judiciary, Social Reform and the Debate on ‘Religious Prostitution’ in Colonial India”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 30, No. 43 (28 Oct-03 Nov 1995). Pp. WS 59-WS 69. 


3. “Gendering Justice,” Economic & Political Weekly, Vol.31 No.33 (17-23 Aug 1996). Pp. 2223-2225. 

 

4. “From Social Action to Political Action: Women and the 81st Amendment”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 32. No.5 (1-7 Feb 1997).  Pp.196-97. Co-author V. Kannabiran.


5. “Gender in Mainstream Politics: Case of Telugu Desam Party”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.32 No.22 (31 May – 06 Apr 1997).  Pp.1236-1238.


6. “Mapping Migration, Gender, Culture and Politics in the Indian Diaspora: Commemorating Indian Arrival in Trinidad”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 33 No. 44 (31 Oct-06 Nov 1998). Pp. WS 53-WS 57.


7. “Gender and Peace: Some Reflections on Commonwealth Asia”, Indian Journal of Human Rights, 2:1&2, Jan-Dec 1998, pp. 138-163. 


8. “Disobedience and Social Sciences,” Economic and Political Weekly, VOL 38 No.20, May 17-23, 2003, pp. 1931-1932.


9. “Women’s Rights and Naxalite Groups in AP” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 39 No. 45 (6 Nov. 2004). Pp. 4874-4877.  Co-authors Volga, V. Kannabiran.


10. “Reflections on the Peace Process in Andhra Pradesh”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 40 No. 7, (12-18 Feb 2005).  Pp. 610-612.   Co-authors Volga and V. Kannabiran.


11. “Peace and Irresponsibility”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 40 No.13 (26 Mar-01Apr 2005). Pp. 1310-1312. 


12. “Expanding the Public Domain: Access, Diversity and Representation”, Seminar, July, 2005.

https://www.india-seminar.com/2005/551/551%20kalpana%20kannabiran.htm

 

13. “Ideology and the Architecture of Performance” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 40, No. 27 (Jul 2-8, 2005). Pp. 2899-2904. Co-authors Volga, V. Kannabiran, A.K. Rao.


14. “Three-Dimensional Family:  Remapping a Multidisciplinary Approach to Family Studies,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 41 No. 42 (21-27 Oct 2006). Pp. 4427-4433.


15. “What is Justice for Survivors of Gujarat 2002? A Report of the 37th Session of CEDAW”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42 No. 11 (17-23 Mar 2007).  Co-author S. George.


16. “Taslima Case: On a Code of Conduct for Elected Representatives,” Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 42, No. 36, (08-14 Sep 2007). Pp. 3605-3608. Co-author K.G. Kannabiran.


17. “Chunduru: On the Road to Justice,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42 No. 39 (29 Sep–05 Oct 2007). Pp. 3915-3916.


18. “Making the Forked Tongue Speak: An Ethnography of the Self”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 43 No. 16 (19-25 Apr 2008). Pp. 63-70.


19. “The Sociology of Caste and the Crooked Mirror: Recovering BR Ambedkar’s Legacy”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 44, No. 4 (19-25 Jan 2009). Pp. 35-39.


20. “Judicial Meanderings in Patriarchal Thickets: Litigating Sex Discrimination in India,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 44, No. 44 (31 Oct-6 Nov, 2009). Pp. 88-98.


21. “The Law, Gender and Women," Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 44, No. 44 (31 Oct-6 Nov, 2009).

 

22. “On the Telangana Trail.” In Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 45, No. 13 (27 Mar 2010).  Pp. 69-82.  Co-authors: M. P. Kumar, N. Madhusudhan, S. Ashalatha, S. R. Ramdas.


23. “A New Beginning?" Economic and Political Weekly, 46: 33, 13 August 2011, pp. 34-37.


24. “Who is a ‘Worker’?  Problematising Ability in the Conceptualisation of Labour.”  In Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 57 (Jan-Mar 2014). Pp. 67-92.

 

25. “Annihilation by Caste: Lessons from Budaun and Beyond,” Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 49, Nos. 26-27 (21 Jun 2014). Pp. 13-15.


26. “Storytelling in the Time of Hate: Deciphering Law(s) through Literature.”  Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. L, No. 20 (16 May 2015), pp. 76-83.


27. “The Complexities of the Genderscape in India,” Seminar, No. 672, August 2015.


28. “Constitutional Geographies and Cartographies of Impunity: Human Rights and Adivasis/Tribes in India,” Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 51, No. 44 & 45 (5 Nov 2016). Pp. 92-100.


29. “Of Law, Resurrection and a Future.”  Seminar, No. 689, January 2017.  Pp. 82-85.

https://www.india-seminar.com/2017/689/689_kalpana_kannabiran.htm 


30. “Investigating the Causes for Low Female Age at Marriage: The Case of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol LII, No. 18 (6 May 2017). Pp. 57-65. Co-authors S.K. Mishra and S. S. Raju.


31. Crusader for the Scientific Temper. Social Change, 47(4), 650-653, 2017.


32. “Education and its Discontents: Investigating Barriers to Schooling among De-notified and Nomadic Communities.”  Journal of Social Inclusion Studies, 4(1), 2018. Pp. 80-103. Co-authors S.K. Mishra, S. Vinayan and K. Jafar.


33. “Anticipation of Dispossession: Narratives from Mallanasagar Reservoir Area” co-author. Social Change. 49 (1), March 2019.  Pp. 41-60. Co-author S. Sunkari.


34. “The Struggle is its own Reward,” Seminar 721, September 2019, Pp. 29-38.


35. “‘What Use is Poetry’? Excavating Tongues of Justice around Navtej Singh Johar vs. Union of India.” National Law School of India Review. Vol. 31(1), 2019. Pp. 1-31. 


36. “Justice and Rights in Viral Contexts In India”.  The India Forum. 28 April 2020. https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/justice-and-rights-viral-contexts-india


37. “Reproductive Justice Not ‘Personhood of Foetus’: Lessons Learnt from Safoora Zargar’s Experience,” Livelaw, 27 June 2020. https://www.livelaw.in/columns/reproductive-justice-not-personhood-of-foetus-lessons-learnt-from-safoora-zargars-experience-158991


38. “The Shifting Sands of Citizenship: Dispossessions, Constitutional Ruptures and Borderlands” Sociological Bulletin, Vol 69: 3 (Oct 2020). Pp. 1-20.


39. “Constitution-as-Commons: Notes on Decolonizing Citizenship in India” The South Atlantic Quarterly 120:1, January 2021.  Pp. 232-241.


40.  "Conversation: Kalpana Kannabiran in conversation with Rukmini Sen" Explorations, ISS e-journal, Vol. 5 (2), October 2021, pp. 277-291, Indian Sociological Society


41. “Insurgent, Passional Chronicles of Revolutionary Praxis: Reading Gail Omvedt.”  Social Change, 51(4), Dec 2021. Pp. 600-607.


42. “Migration and ‘Intimate Citizenship’: The ‘Small Voice’ of Ansari Begum”. Social Change, Vol. 52(2), Jun 2022.  Pp. 291-307. Co-author R. K. Tella.


43. “A Biography of Civil Liberties in Independent India.”  South Asia Centre Blog, London School of Economics. 14 Nov 2022. 

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2022/11/14/a-genealogy-of-civil-liberties-in-independent-india/


44. "Political Reservation for Women: The (Un)Making and Futures of the Constitution (106th Amendment) Act, 2023 ", Social Change, Vol. 54, No. 1, March 2024.


45. "Caste, gender, race: Signposts of a feminist anti-caste approach", Current Sociology 1 –6, 2024.


46. “A New Constitutional Vocabulary? Constitution-as-Commons, Citizenship and the Borders of Belonging” Response to Secularism as Misdirection by Nivedita Menon. Law and Other Things. 12 February 2025. https://lawandotherthings.com/secularism-as-misdirection-response-by-kalpana-kannabiran/

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3. Gendering-Justice (pdf)Download
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5. Gender-in-Mainstream-Politics (pdf)Download
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7. Disobedience-and-social-sciences (pdf)Download
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9. Reflections-on-the-peace-process (pdf)Download
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11. Ideology-Architecture-of-Performance (pdf)Download
12. 3-D-Family (pdf)Download
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14. Taslima-case (pdf)Download
15. Chunduru (pdf)Download
16. Making-Forked-Tongue-Speak (pdf)Download
17. Sociology-of-caste (pdf)Download
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20. On-the-Telangana-Trail (pdf)Download
21. A-New-Beginning (pdf)Download
22. Who-is-a-worker (pdf)Download
23. Annihilation-by-Caste (pdf)Download
24. Storytelling_in_the_Time_of_Hate (pdf)Download
25. Complexities-of-genderscape (pdf)Download
26. Constitutional_Geographies_and_Cartographies_of_Impunity (pdf)Download
27. Investigation-Age-at Marriage_Kannabiran (pdf)Download
28.Crusader PM Bhargava-KKannabiran (pdf)Download
29. Education-and-Its-Discontents (pdf)Download
30. Anticipation of Dispossession-SC (pdf)Download
31. The Struggle is its own reward (pdf)Download
32. What use is Poetry (pdf)Download
33. Shifting Sands (pdf)Download
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35. Conv_Kalpana_K (1) (pdf)Download
36. Gail Omvedt-KK Social Change Dec 2021 (pdf)Download
37. Ansari Begum-Social Change June 2022 (pdf)Download
38. Political reservation for women_March 2024 (pdf)Download
39. Caste-gender-race-signposts-of-a-feminist-anti-caste-approach September 2024 (pdf)Download

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