State of justice in India Vol.3

Volume three of the series State of Justice in India: Issues of Social Justice shows how marginalities in social spaces marked by power raise the issue of justice. It deals with the situation of people living on the margins of the society and their relationship with communities and sections of citizenry who have the resources and the wherewithal to secure their rights. It reveals how modes of governance intentionally or unintentionally use strategies of inclusion, exclusion, differential exclusion, and, most importantly, techniques of turning spaces into 'marginal enclaves', giving rise to injustice, and thereby, the demand for justice.

Marginalities and Justice (III rd. part of a four-part set) demonstrates the fundamental fact that justice emanates from the dynamics of marginality. The same governmental techniques that, to some extent, address issues of social justice, may produce marginal positions too. This collection, therefore, suggests the existence of a remainder-the one that remains outside the operations of governmentality-and explores the arrangement of social spaces in marking out a particular regime of justice.