Upendra Baxi
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
8th Zakir Hussain Memorial Lecture, ‘Human Rights Education: The Promise of the Third Millennium’, 19 December 1995
Published by Zakir Hussain College, New Delhi
Afterword: The Struggle for Sans-Papier Human Rights', in Marie Bénédicte Dembour and Tobias Kelly (eds.), Are Human Rights for Migrants? Critical Reflections on the Status of Irregular Migrants in Europe and the United States, 2011
Published by Routledge. New York pg, 222-232.
Ameliorating human futures through postdevelopment?' in Adelman, S., & Paliwala, A. (eds), The Limits of Law and Development: Neoliberalism, Governance and Social Justice (1st ed.), 2020
Published by Routledge, pg 38-53.
‘Changing Paradigms of Human Rights’ in Julia Eckert, Brian Donahoe, Christian Strümpell, and Zerrin Özlem Biner (eds), Law against the State: Ethnographic Forays into Law’s Transformations, 2012
Published by Cambridge University Press, for the Series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society, pg 266–85.
‘Development as a Human Right or as Political Largesse.’ in Rathinasamy Maria Saleth (ed), From Individual to Community: Issues in Development Studies, 2012
This essay revisits debates on development as entitlement versus discretion. Baxi reflects on governance, accountability, and citizenship, questioning how development discourse shapes state obligations and popular expectations. Published by Sage Publications. New Delhi
‘Foreword’ to Human Rights Violations against the transgender community: A study of kothi and hijra sex workers in Bangalore, 2003
In this foreword, Baxi highlights the importance of documenting rights violations against transgender communities. He emphasizes empirical research, voice, and visibility, situating the study within broader struggles for dignity, recognition, and legal protection. Published by PUCL-K.
Forthcoming. The Future of Human Rights, 4th Edition.
This forthcoming edition revisits evolving challenges to human rights. Baxi reflects on new forms of violence, inequality, and resistance, emphasizing uncertainty, adaptation, and the continuing struggle to make human rights responsive to suffering. Published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
‘From Human Rights to the Right to be a Woman’, in Amita Dhanda and Archana Parashar (eds), Engendering Law: Essays in Honour of Professor Lotika Sarkar, 1999
Published by Eastern Book Company, Lucknow, pg 275–90.
From Human Rights to the Right to Be Human: Some Heresies, 1986
Baxi critically interrogates dominant human rights discourse, questioning its limits and exclusions. He proposes rethinking rights in terms of human dignity and lived suffering, challenging legal formalism and urging attention to voices and experiences often marginalized within institutional human rights frameworks. In India International Centre Quarterly Vol. 13, no. 3/4. pg 185-200.
‘From Human Rights to the Right to Being Human,’ in Upendra Baxi, Geeti Sen, and Jeanette Fernandes (eds), The Right to be human, 1987
Published by Lancer International in association with India International Centre, New Delhi
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