Published April 26, 2010
by iris_author
COMPARATIVE RESEARCH IN LAW
AND POLITICAL ECONOMY NETWORK and the NATHANSON CENTRE
are proud to invite Students and Faculty to attend a CLPE Lecture by:
Dr. Usha Ramanathan
“Legality and Legitimacy: The Development Project and Mass Displacement”
Time: Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 12:30-2:00
Location: Ross S839
Lunch will be served
Dr. Usha Ramanathan is an independent law researcher based in New Delhi, India, who writes and speaks on the jurisprudence of law, poverty and rights. Her work moves around and between constitutionalism, human rights, marginalisation, the law's continuums, and the judicial process. Specific areas of her work include displacement projects, corporate accountability, questions of liberty, power, control and authority of the state and judicial power. Her work draws heavily upon non-governmental experience in its encounters with the state, a 6 year stint with a law journal as reporter from the Supreme Court, engagement as a contributing expert with institutions including the WHO (2003-07), the International Commission of Jurists (2006-08), Amnesty International (2004-07) and Rights and Democracy, Canada (2004-06). Some of her writings can be found at http://www.ielrc.org/.
Abstract: Dams, industry, roads, mining: these are among the constituents of the development project. Since the mid-1980s, displacement has become a central theme in development discourses. Resistance and protest from amongst project affected populations, and challenges to the model of development have escalated. Resettlement policies, and coming down on protesters, have been among the responses to movements and civil society action against projects that displace, or corporatise resources. Environmental concerns, and politics, are part of the amalgam. Institutions, including the judiciary, and international financial institutions, have had significant spaces that they have occupied.
An idea of legality, and legitimacy, emerges from this cauldron of activity, concerns and resistance.
RSVP please to Joanne Rappaport (jrappaport@osgoode.yorku.ca)
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