Humiliation : Claims and Context
- New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
- xii, 238 p.
Introduction : theorizing humiliation / Gobal Guru Foregrounding humiliation as claim. Logic of humiliation / Bhikhu Parekh Humiliation : politics and the cultural psychology of the limits of human degradation / Ashis Nandy Humiliation and justice / Upendra Baxi Understanding humiliation / Sanjay Palshikar Contextualizing humiliation. Bereft of being : the humiliations of untouchability / V. Geetha Untouchability, filth, and the public domain / Valerian Rodrigues Humiliation in a crematorium / Peter Ronald deSouza Equality for what? : or the troublesome relation between egalitarianism and respect / Neera Chandhoke Society, economy, and humiliation. Political economy of humiliation : tale of a failed strike / Suhas Palshika Against untouchability : the discourses of Gandhi and Ambedkar / Thomas Pantham -- Rejection of rejection : foregrounding self-respect / Gopal Guru.