Writing About Impunity and Environment: the Silver Jubilee of the Bhopal Catastrophe, 2010
Scope and Contents
The Upendra Baxi Collection is a digital collection that currently comprises a single series, Bibliography. This series is organised into several subseries, including Published Academic Articles, Published Book Chapters, Published Books, Published Book Reviews, Published Lectures and Presentations from Conferences and Seminars, Newspaper Articles, Letters and Correspondence (Mathura Rape Case), Other Media, and Media Articles by Others on the Mathura Rape Case.
Dates
- Publication: 2010
Creator
- Upendra Baxi (Author, Person)
- Sharunya (Archives Intern, Person)
- Meghashree Dev (Processing Archivist, Person)
Full Extent
From the Collection: 250 Megabytes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This essay revisits the Bhopal disaster decades later, reflecting on environmental harm, impunity, and memory. Baxi examines how legal closure contrasts with ongoing suffering, highlighting failures of accountability and the persistence of environmental injustice. Published in the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment Vol. 1 No. 1, pg 23-44.
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Repository Details
Part of the NLS Law and Society Archives Repository