Sandhya Fuchs
Biographic Data
| ID | 9179221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandhya Fuchs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandhya |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuchs |
| SIGNATURE | FUCHS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Supreme histories and brittle democracies
Spectacles of Whataboutery
Fragile Hope
Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the political fore. In 2019, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice urgently asked how legal systems can counter bias and discrimination. In India, a nation with vast socio-cultural diversity, and a complex colonial past, questions about the relationship between law and histories of oppression…
Truth clashes
This article brings together theories of truth in legal anthropology and the anthropology of religion to highlight how legal institutions can co-opt hate crime laws and reproduce patterns of sociopolitical oppression. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research on the social life of India's only hate crime law - the 1989 Prevention of Atrocities Act (PoA), which punishes violence against Dalit (ex-untouchable) communities - the article argues that…
Give me the space to live’
May 2015 witnessed the Dangawas massacre in Rajasthan’s Nagaur district, one of the most brutal caste atrocities in recent Indian history, which resulted in the death of five Dalits of the Meghwal caste at the hands of a Jat mob. Across Rajasthan, the violence of Dangawas, which marked the culmination of a decades-long land conflict, has become synonymous with the continuing reality of caste-based violence and the law that is meant to address it:…
Truth clashes
This article brings together theories of truth in legal anthropology and the anthropology of religion to highlight how legal institutions can co-opt hate crime laws and reproduce patterns of sociopolitical oppression. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research on the social life of India's only hate crime law - the 1989 Prevention of Atrocities Act (PoA), which punishes violence against Dalit (ex-untouchable) communities - the article argues that…
Give me the space to live’
May 2015 witnessed the Dangawas massacre in Rajasthan’s Nagaur district, one of the most brutal caste atrocities in recent Indian history, which resulted in the death of five Dalits of the Meghwal caste at the hands of a Jat mob. Across Rajasthan, the violence of Dangawas, which marked the culmination of a decades-long land conflict, has become synonymous with the continuing reality of caste-based violence and the law that is meant to address it:…
Give me the space to live’
May 2015 witnessed the Dangawas massacre in Rajasthan’s Nagaur district, one of the most brutal caste atrocities in recent Indian history, which resulted in the death of five Dalits of the Meghwal caste at the hands of a Jat mob. Across Rajasthan, the violence of Dangawas, which marked the culmination of a decades-long land conflict, has become synonymous with the continuing reality of caste-based violence and the law that is meant to address it:…
Fragile Hope
Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the political fore. In 2019, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice urgently asked how legal systems can counter bias and discrimination. In India, a nation with vast socio-cultural diversity, and a complex colonial past, questions about the relationship between law and histories of oppression…
Truth clashes
This article brings together theories of truth in legal anthropology and the anthropology of religion to highlight how legal institutions can co-opt hate crime laws and reproduce patterns of sociopolitical oppression. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research on the social life of India's only hate crime law - the 1989 Prevention of Atrocities Act (PoA), which punishes violence against Dalit (ex-untouchable) communities - the article argues that…
Supreme histories and brittle democracies
Spectacles of Whataboutery
Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Caste (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law in Society and Culture (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (2 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (2 works)