Daniela Berti
Biographic Data
| ID | 385012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniela Berti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniela |
| FAMILY NAME | Berti |
| SIGNATURE | BERTI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7113-5103 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Connecting tigers. Wildlife corridors and national highways in India
This article focuses on a long-standing legal battle fought by environmentalists and lawyers in India who opposed a plan of the regional government of Uttarakhand (Himalayan India) to build a highway near a region that is home to the last ecological corridor for tigers and elephants between two major parks. This ethnographic study shows how the Indian State manages the tension between the role it has claimed since Independence in promoting the co…
Animal Sacrifice, Religion and Law in South Asia
A Tale of Many Battles
In this article, I focus on how the issue of considering animals as legal persons has been argued in court by the Nonhuman Rights Project led by Steven Wise in the United States and how this project was recently adopted and reinterpreted by an animal rights organisation in India in preparation for their own court battle. In turn, Indian cases raising the question of the legal personhood of animals and rivers have been used by Wise as examples to …
Animals in the Public Debate
This paper proposes a survey of the many ways in which people look at and deal with animals in contemporary India. On the basis of ethnographic research and of multiple written sources (judgments, newspapers, websites, legal files, activist pamphlets, etc.), I present some of the actors involved in the animal debate-animal activists, environmental lawyers, judges, and hunter-conservationists-who adopt different, though sometimes interconnected, a…
Introduction. Through the Lens of the Law
For anthropologists as well as for historians, law practices and their discursive productions provide a way of studying interactions and decisions in a variety of domains of social and political life—from social and family relationships to issues such as criminality, environmental protection, natural resource management, religious practices, or human rights. The following studies deal with such issues by using the “lens of the law” as a vantage p…
Suicide Notes under Judicial Scrutiny in India
In this paper I focus on particular kinds of texts that may be found in court files on suicides and are commonly known as suicide notes, that is notes supposedly written by a person who has allegedly committed suicide and who wrote down their reason for taking their own life. Unlike most of the “voices” that emerge from a court file, which are always mediated by a legal or judicial representative—the police, the court or the lawyer—suicide notes …
Of Doubt and Proof
Filing Religion
International audience
La vérité en question. Idéal de justice et techniques judiciaires en Inde
Dans cette contribution, nous nous proposons d'explorer comment la notion de vérité est invoquée et mise en œuvre dans les procès criminels en Inde. Les termes dans lesquels, non sans idéalisme, la recherche de la vérité est affirmée être au fondement de la justice seront d'abord présentés, avant de voir comment les juges du procès sont confrontés à la nécessité de parvenir à une vérité judiciaire, voire simplement procédurale, reposant sur les t…
Pouvoirs locaux et contraintes judiciaires dans une affaire de viol en Inde
L’État indien a fait preuve depuis l’indépendance d’une politique volontariste en matière légale qui, à l’écoute des conventions internationales et des organisations des droits de l’homme, l’a conduit à promulguer une série de lois visant à criminaliser et à déraciner certaines relations d’exploitation, de harassement ou de discrimination centrées sur la caste, le genre ou la religion. Si cette politique volontariste contribue à la diffusion d’un…
Pratiques de justice
Local Powers and Judicial Constraints in a Case of Rape in India
Since independence, the Indian State has shown a voluntarist approach in the judicial domain. This has led to the introduction of severe laws against customary relations of exploitation, harassment, and discrimination that rest on caste, gender, or religious differences. While this policy has enhanced a deeper legal culture, and provoked a new legal activism within the Indian population, it has not extirpated the local relations of dominance and …
Practices of Justice
International audience
Hostile witnesses, judicial interactions and out-of-court narratives in a north Indian district court
This article examines the argument that people in India are strongly oriented towards litigation in court as against other forms of negotiation or advising. In spite of the centrality of the court system to Indian public life, the flow of cases arriving at court does not reflect any such fixed preference. Going to court may simply be a choice which the parties make in the first instance, but which will eventually be abandoned in favour of private…
"Now it is all politics"
En prenant comme exemple la fête du Daśahrā célébrée dans la ville de Kullu (Himachal Pradesh), l’article aborde le thème des transformations rituelles non pas tant du point de vue des changements effectifs que du point de vue des discours localement tenus à leur propos. Un premier type de discours souligne le contraste entre la spécificité du Daśahrā à Kullu et les Daśahrā célébrés ailleurs en Inde, illustrant une perception de la variation par …
Hostile witnesses, judicial interactions and out-of-court narratives in a north Indian district court
This article examines the argument that people in India are strongly oriented towards litigation in court as against other forms of negotiation or advising. In spite of the centrality of the court system to Indian public life, the flow of cases arriving at court does not reflect any such fixed preference. Going to court may simply be a choice which the parties make in the first instance, but which will eventually be abandoned in favour of private…
A Tale of Many Battles
In this article, I focus on how the issue of considering animals as legal persons has been argued in court by the Nonhuman Rights Project led by Steven Wise in the United States and how this project was recently adopted and reinterpreted by an animal rights organisation in India in preparation for their own court battle. In turn, Indian cases raising the question of the legal personhood of animals and rivers have been used by Wise as examples to …
Animals in the Public Debate
This paper proposes a survey of the many ways in which people look at and deal with animals in contemporary India. On the basis of ethnographic research and of multiple written sources (judgments, newspapers, websites, legal files, activist pamphlets, etc.), I present some of the actors involved in the animal debate-animal activists, environmental lawyers, judges, and hunter-conservationists-who adopt different, though sometimes interconnected, a…
Practices of Justice
International audience
"Now it is all politics"
En prenant comme exemple la fête du Daśahrā célébrée dans la ville de Kullu (Himachal Pradesh), l’article aborde le thème des transformations rituelles non pas tant du point de vue des changements effectifs que du point de vue des discours localement tenus à leur propos. Un premier type de discours souligne le contraste entre la spécificité du Daśahrā à Kullu et les Daśahrā célébrés ailleurs en Inde, illustrant une perception de la variation par …
Hostile witnesses, judicial interactions and out-of-court narratives in a north Indian district court
This article examines the argument that people in India are strongly oriented towards litigation in court as against other forms of negotiation or advising. In spite of the centrality of the court system to Indian public life, the flow of cases arriving at court does not reflect any such fixed preference. Going to court may simply be a choice which the parties make in the first instance, but which will eventually be abandoned in favour of private…
Pouvoirs locaux et contraintes judiciaires dans une affaire de viol en Inde
L’État indien a fait preuve depuis l’indépendance d’une politique volontariste en matière légale qui, à l’écoute des conventions internationales et des organisations des droits de l’homme, l’a conduit à promulguer une série de lois visant à criminaliser et à déraciner certaines relations d’exploitation, de harassement ou de discrimination centrées sur la caste, le genre ou la religion. Si cette politique volontariste contribue à la diffusion d’un…
Pratiques de justice
Local Powers and Judicial Constraints in a Case of Rape in India
Since independence, the Indian State has shown a voluntarist approach in the judicial domain. This has led to the introduction of severe laws against customary relations of exploitation, harassment, and discrimination that rest on caste, gender, or religious differences. While this policy has enhanced a deeper legal culture, and provoked a new legal activism within the Indian population, it has not extirpated the local relations of dominance and …
Practices of Justice
International audience
Of Doubt and Proof
Filing Religion
International audience
La vérité en question. Idéal de justice et techniques judiciaires en Inde
Dans cette contribution, nous nous proposons d'explorer comment la notion de vérité est invoquée et mise en œuvre dans les procès criminels en Inde. Les termes dans lesquels, non sans idéalisme, la recherche de la vérité est affirmée être au fondement de la justice seront d'abord présentés, avant de voir comment les juges du procès sont confrontés à la nécessité de parvenir à une vérité judiciaire, voire simplement procédurale, reposant sur les t…
Introduction. Through the Lens of the Law
For anthropologists as well as for historians, law practices and their discursive productions provide a way of studying interactions and decisions in a variety of domains of social and political life—from social and family relationships to issues such as criminality, environmental protection, natural resource management, religious practices, or human rights. The following studies deal with such issues by using the “lens of the law” as a vantage p…
Suicide Notes under Judicial Scrutiny in India
In this paper I focus on particular kinds of texts that may be found in court files on suicides and are commonly known as suicide notes, that is notes supposedly written by a person who has allegedly committed suicide and who wrote down their reason for taking their own life. Unlike most of the “voices” that emerge from a court file, which are always mediated by a legal or judicial representative—the police, the court or the lawyer—suicide notes …
Animals in the Public Debate
This paper proposes a survey of the many ways in which people look at and deal with animals in contemporary India. On the basis of ethnographic research and of multiple written sources (judgments, newspapers, websites, legal files, activist pamphlets, etc.), I present some of the actors involved in the animal debate-animal activists, environmental lawyers, judges, and hunter-conservationists-who adopt different, though sometimes interconnected, a…
Animal Sacrifice, Religion and Law in South Asia
A Tale of Many Battles
In this article, I focus on how the issue of considering animals as legal persons has been argued in court by the Nonhuman Rights Project led by Steven Wise in the United States and how this project was recently adopted and reinterpreted by an animal rights organisation in India in preparation for their own court battle. In turn, Indian cases raising the question of the legal personhood of animals and rivers have been used by Wise as examples to …
Connecting tigers. Wildlife corridors and national highways in India
This article focuses on a long-standing legal battle fought by environmentalists and lawyers in India who opposed a plan of the regional government of Uttarakhand (Himalayan India) to build a highway near a region that is home to the last ecological corridor for tigers and elephants between two major parks. This ethnographic study shows how the Indian State manages the tension between the role it has claimed since Independence in promoting the co…
Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law in Society and Culture (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Battle (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)