Workshop organised in Edinburgh on 15-16 June 2017 by Daniela Berti (CNRS/CEH) and Tony Good (University of Edinburgh)
With the support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the University of Edinburgh, the Centre for Himayan Studies (CNRS/CEH) and the Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS)
The aim of this third workshop is to explore three contexts in which environmental issues, and the relationship between ecology and religion, come to the fore in contemporary South Asia : (i) development projects and territories of the gods ; (ii) protected areas and people’s rights ; and (iii) ’animal rights’ and religious reforms. Its distinctive focus, differentiating it from other work on development, environment or religion in South Asia, is on legal aspects of these issues, where possible on actual litigation in appellate and other courts.
Lieu : St Trinnean’s Room, Pollock Halls, Edinburgh
Programme
Thursday, 15 June
09.30-10.00 Introduction, Daniela Berti and Anthony Good
10.00-10.50 Domenico Amirante, University of Campania
The National Green Tribunal of India : a legal forum at the crossroads between science, environment and society
Discussant : Jamie Cross, University of Edinburgh
11.20-12.10 Sudha Vasan, University of Delhi
Green courts and the production of socio-ecological assemblages in India
Discussant : Jamie Cross
12.10-13.00 Anuj Bhuwania, South Asian University, New Delhi
On the ‘misuse’ of law in India : The case of anti-cow slaughter statutes
Discutant : Gilles Tarabout, CNRS/LESC
14.00-14.50 Rohit De, Yale
Cows and constitutionalism : from religious rites to economic rights
Discussant : Gilles Tarabout
14.50-15.40 Nayanika Mathur, University of Sussex, England
The government of crooked big cats in India, 1972-2017
Discussant : Heid Jerstad, University of Edinburgh
16.00-16.50 Diane Philiponet, Université de Toulouse – Jean-Jaurès
‘Monkeys come from the forest.’ State management of problems linked to monkeys in North Indian cities
Discussant : Heid Jerstad
16.50-17.30 Synthesising discussion : Sally Engle Merry (New York University)
Friday, 16 June
09.10-10.00 Anthony Good, University of Edinburgh
Animal sacrifice and the law in Tamil Nadu, South India
Discussant : Filippo Osella, University of Sussex
10.00-10.50 Daniela Berti, CNRS/CEH
Animal sacrifice under judicial scrutiny. Moral reforms and religious freedom in India
Discussant : Filippo Osella
11.20-12.10 Raphaël Voix, CNRS/CEIAS
Animal sacrifice in West Bengal ; practice, contestation and the state
Discussant : Véronique Bouillier, CNRS/CEIAS
12.10-13.00 Chiara Letizia, Université de Quebec, Montreal & Blandine Ripert, CNRS Paris/CSH Delhi
“Not in the name of religion.” A Supreme Court verdict on animal sacrifice in Nepal
Discussant : Véronique Bouillier
14.00-14.50 Joëlle Smadja, CNRS/CEH
A chronicle of law implementation in environmental conflicts : the case of Kaziranga National Park in Assam (North-East India)
Discussant : Tobias Kelly, University of Edinburgh
14.50-15.40 Kelly D. Alley & Tarini Mehta, Auburn University, USA
Draining activism : delay and persistence in India’s legal discourse
Discussant : Tobias Kelly
16.10-17.15 Synthesising discussion : K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale