"Making Citizenship Familiar: Law & the Polyrhythms of Citizenship" a talk by Prof. Anupama Roy with Prof. Nivedita Menon at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 5pm on 17th October 2014
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"Making Citizenship Familiar: Law & the Polyrhythms of Citizenship" a talk by Prof. Anupama Roy with Prof. Nivedita Menon
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Event Description : "Making Citizenship Familiar: Law and the Polyrhythms of Citizenship"
a talk by Prof. Anupama Roy, (Centre for Political with Prof. Nivedita Menon (SIS, JNU) as the discussant (Lecture 3: Project: “Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Studies), JNU Performance”)
Abstract :
This paper is framed around the Citizenship Act of India 1955. It attempts to be both an exercise in thinking about ways of tracing the life of a law, as also of re-tracing it in a way so as to see how the law as ‘state’s emissary’, to use Ranajit Guha’s metaphor, may also be relocated in the ‘matrix… of historical experience’. The paper explores the manner in which ‘citizenship’ was being framed as a specific legal category, through two periods of ‘interregnum’ or ‘legal hiatus/vacuum’ on citizenship, that is, between the formation of the Indian nation-state (1947) and the commencement of the Constitution (1950), and subsequently between the commencement of the Constitution (1950) and the Citizenship Act of India (1955). While tracing the topological terrain of citizenship in the moment of interregnum in law, the paper would show how the experience of citizenship for that moment, unfolded in polyrhythmous ways. The interregnum between the enforcement of the Constitution and the enactment of the Citizenship Act of 1955, it is argued, was a period of indeterminate citizenship. Yet, it also generated spaces of liminality in the closures brought in by the constitutional deadline. The statutory opening up of constitutional closures was made possible through the insertion of distinct and differential ‘categories’ into citizenship, putting in place a differentiated and graded framework of citizenship. The paper will examine the files of the Citizenship Section in the Ministry of Home, which record a range of ‘cases’ requiring decision on the citizenship status of people in transition.
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Venue : School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067
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Event Description : "Making Citizenship Familiar: Law and the Polyrhythms of Citizenship"
a talk by Prof. Anupama Roy, (Centre for Political with Prof. Nivedita Menon (SIS, JNU) as the discussant (Lecture 3: Project: “Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Studies), JNU Performance”)
Abstract :
This paper is framed around the Citizenship Act of India 1955. It attempts to be both an exercise in thinking about ways of tracing the life of a law, as also of re-tracing it in a way so as to see how the law as ‘state’s emissary’, to use Ranajit Guha’s metaphor, may also be relocated in the ‘matrix… of historical experience’. The paper explores the manner in which ‘citizenship’ was being framed as a specific legal category, through two periods of ‘interregnum’ or ‘legal hiatus/vacuum’ on citizenship, that is, between the formation of the Indian nation-state (1947) and the commencement of the Constitution (1950), and subsequently between the commencement of the Constitution (1950) and the Citizenship Act of India (1955). While tracing the topological terrain of citizenship in the moment of interregnum in law, the paper would show how the experience of citizenship for that moment, unfolded in polyrhythmous ways. The interregnum between the enforcement of the Constitution and the enactment of the Citizenship Act of 1955, it is argued, was a period of indeterminate citizenship. Yet, it also generated spaces of liminality in the closures brought in by the constitutional deadline. The statutory opening up of constitutional closures was made possible through the insertion of distinct and differential ‘categories’ into citizenship, putting in place a differentiated and graded framework of citizenship. The paper will examine the files of the Citizenship Section in the Ministry of Home, which record a range of ‘cases’ requiring decision on the citizenship status of people in transition.
Anupama Roy, Professor, CPS, JNU is a political scientist whose research interests straddle legal studies, political anthropology of public institutions and women’s studies. Her book publications include Gendered Citizenship: Historical and Conceptual Explorations (Orient Longman, 2005), Mapping Citizenship in India (Oxford University Press, 2010).
"Making Citizenship Familiar: Law & the Polyrhythms of Citizenship" a talk by Prof. Anupama Roy with Prof. Nivedita Menon at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 5pm on 17th October 2014
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