Vijay is an independent researcher interested in law and society, geographies of social control and social movements.
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageGlobal Human Rights: For futures unlike the past
Vijay K. Nagaraj responds to Aryeh Neier, criticising his construction of social justice. Neier’s discomfort with...
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Published in: 50.50India’s secret executions: necropolitics and government by stealth
India’s democratic futures lie with a sovereignty whose essence is freedom and imagination, not one driven by power,...
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Published in: 50.50Yes to ending violence against women, but no to the ‘zero tolerance’ route
The problem with the use of 'zero tolerance' in public discourse is that it makes for good populist politics and...
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Published in: 50.50How far have Human Rights advanced when poverty is so widespread?
If the measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable, then societies everywhere have cause to be...
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Published in: 50.50Urban militarism: excluding the 'disordered'
The coupling of revanchist logic with the new military urbanism is creating citadels of political and economic power...
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Published in: openIndiaIndian constitutional democracy: a freedom in crisis
Declining political morality and increasing moral policing are suffocating the rule of law in India, shrinking...