Renu Addlakha
Biographic Data
| ID | 149064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renu Addlakha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renu |
| FAMILY NAME | Addlakha |
| SIGNATURE | ADDLAKHA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Socio-economic Research on Development and Democracy, 8/2 Shri Ram Road, Civil Lines, Delhi 110 054 |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-7845-9286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Slow Progress for Women with Disabilities in India
This essay examines the engendering of disability in India over the past half a century through a reflexive lens; the author has been both an observer and participant in this process. The article looks at how women with disabilities have emerged as a distinct category in the different registers of state, civil society, and academia, in the face of overwhelming odds as individuals and invisibility as a group. It also discusses how notions of human…
Kinship Destabilized
In the Global South, disability is often lived as a family experience. The spatiotemporal context in neoliberal India, characterized by rapid social and cultural change disrupting traditional family structures and creating the possibility for the emergence of new and alternative kinship imaginaries. This paper positions disability within families, to explore intrahousehold dynamics around care work and caring. Using a contextual approach to disab…
Disability and sexuality
More than 15% of the world’s population are affected by disability, including physical and sensory impairments, developmental and intellectual disability and psychosocial disability.1 While it goes
Discursive and institutional intersections
While important foci of feminist legal jurisprudence have highlighted the patriarchal bias in the areas of legal theory, sexuality, race, and violence, an important area that has received little attention is the interface between health law, gender, and power, particularly in the context of post-colonial societies. This paper explores these concepts in contemporary India, the underlying idea being that health is as much an issue of violence as vi…
Indigenisation’ not ‘Indianisation’ of Psychiatry
This paper adopts an anthropological approach to the understanding of psychiatry in post-colonial India. It examines how national and local contexts modify the universal theories and practices that come to define psychiatry as a medical speciality. It begins with a brief history of psychiatry in India. This is followed by an in-depth analysis of seminal writings by Indian psychiatrists to highlight the cultural underpinnings of concepts of mental…
Disability, Gender and Society
The most recent addition in the well-established grid of categories of oppression such as class, caste and gender is disability. Although
Affliction and Testimony
This paper is an attempt to map out the life-world of a young unmarried woman with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, whom the author met in the course of her ethnographic study of general hospital psychiatry in a Delhi public hospital (Addlakha 1999). It is primarily based on the author’s reading of Parvati Devi’s diary, a document meticulously maintained by the patient in the months prior to her hospitalisation at the Lady Hardinge Hospital, New Del…
State legitimacy and social suffering in a modern epidemic
Public health emergencies like epidemic outbreaks provide a challenge to the legitimacy of the state as the mechanism for the maintenance of public order in modern societies. Official agencies, under such circumstances, are faced with the formidable task of ration alising the state's failure to pre-empt a crisis, that is, to maintain their legitimacy in the face of human suffering. This article explores how the Delhi government responded to an ou…
Disability and Domestic Citizenship
Research Article| September 01 2001 Disability and Domestic Citizenship: Voice, Gender, and the Making of the Subject Veena Das; Veena Das Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Renu Addlakha Renu Addlakha Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 511-532. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-3-511 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search S…
Disability and Domestic Citizenship
Research Article| September 01 2001 Disability and Domestic Citizenship: Voice, Gender, and the Making of the Subject Veena Das; Veena Das Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Renu Addlakha Renu Addlakha Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 511-532. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-3-511 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search S…
Kinship Destabilized
In the Global South, disability is often lived as a family experience. The spatiotemporal context in neoliberal India, characterized by rapid social and cultural change disrupting traditional family structures and creating the possibility for the emergence of new and alternative kinship imaginaries. This paper positions disability within families, to explore intrahousehold dynamics around care work and caring. Using a contextual approach to disab…
Disability and sexuality
More than 15% of the world’s population are affected by disability, including physical and sensory impairments, developmental and intellectual disability and psychosocial disability.1 While it goes
Disability, Gender and Society
The most recent addition in the well-established grid of categories of oppression such as class, caste and gender is disability. Although
State legitimacy and social suffering in a modern epidemic
Public health emergencies like epidemic outbreaks provide a challenge to the legitimacy of the state as the mechanism for the maintenance of public order in modern societies. Official agencies, under such circumstances, are faced with the formidable task of ration alising the state's failure to pre-empt a crisis, that is, to maintain their legitimacy in the face of human suffering. This article explores how the Delhi government responded to an ou…
Affliction and Testimony
This paper is an attempt to map out the life-world of a young unmarried woman with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, whom the author met in the course of her ethnographic study of general hospital psychiatry in a Delhi public hospital (Addlakha 1999). It is primarily based on the author’s reading of Parvati Devi’s diary, a document meticulously maintained by the patient in the months prior to her hospitalisation at the Lady Hardinge Hospital, New Del…
State legitimacy and social suffering in a modern epidemic
Public health emergencies like epidemic outbreaks provide a challenge to the legitimacy of the state as the mechanism for the maintenance of public order in modern societies. Official agencies, under such circumstances, are faced with the formidable task of ration alising the state's failure to pre-empt a crisis, that is, to maintain their legitimacy in the face of human suffering. This article explores how the Delhi government responded to an ou…
Disability and Domestic Citizenship
Research Article| September 01 2001 Disability and Domestic Citizenship: Voice, Gender, and the Making of the Subject Veena Das; Veena Das Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Renu Addlakha Renu Addlakha Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 511-532. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-3-511 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search S…
Affliction and Testimony
This paper is an attempt to map out the life-world of a young unmarried woman with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, whom the author met in the course of her ethnographic study of general hospital psychiatry in a Delhi public hospital (Addlakha 1999). It is primarily based on the author’s reading of Parvati Devi’s diary, a document meticulously maintained by the patient in the months prior to her hospitalisation at the Lady Hardinge Hospital, New Del…
Disability, Gender and Society
The most recent addition in the well-established grid of categories of oppression such as class, caste and gender is disability. Although
Indigenisation’ not ‘Indianisation’ of Psychiatry
This paper adopts an anthropological approach to the understanding of psychiatry in post-colonial India. It examines how national and local contexts modify the universal theories and practices that come to define psychiatry as a medical speciality. It begins with a brief history of psychiatry in India. This is followed by an in-depth analysis of seminal writings by Indian psychiatrists to highlight the cultural underpinnings of concepts of mental…
Discursive and institutional intersections
While important foci of feminist legal jurisprudence have highlighted the patriarchal bias in the areas of legal theory, sexuality, race, and violence, an important area that has received little attention is the interface between health law, gender, and power, particularly in the context of post-colonial societies. This paper explores these concepts in contemporary India, the underlying idea being that health is as much an issue of violence as vi…
Disability and sexuality
More than 15% of the world’s population are affected by disability, including physical and sensory impairments, developmental and intellectual disability and psychosocial disability.1 While it goes
Kinship Destabilized
In the Global South, disability is often lived as a family experience. The spatiotemporal context in neoliberal India, characterized by rapid social and cultural change disrupting traditional family structures and creating the possibility for the emergence of new and alternative kinship imaginaries. This paper positions disability within families, to explore intrahousehold dynamics around care work and caring. Using a contextual approach to disab…
Slow Progress for Women with Disabilities in India
This essay examines the engendering of disability in India over the past half a century through a reflexive lens; the author has been both an observer and participant in this process. The article looks at how women with disabilities have emerged as a distinct category in the different registers of state, civil society, and academia, in the face of overwhelming odds as individuals and invisibility as a group. It also discusses how notions of human…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works)