Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Pedagogy of Dignity: The Jogini System and the Making of Juridical Subjects in South India

主要研究者：Deborah Poole和Hester Betlem标题：博士论文研究：尊严的教育学：印度南部的约吉尼制度与法律主体的形成摘要本研究考察了1）安得拉邦农村非政府组织的社会改革，印度规定，禁止被视为有损人的尊严的习俗的州法律是可起诉的; 2）改革的目标是如何被这种习俗的前实践者所占据的。1988年《安得拉邦神之女奴（禁止奉献）法》禁止了一种习俗，俗称jogini制度，即父母和其他近亲将低种姓的年轻女孩献给村里的女神。 政府官员认为，作为该制度标志的性赞助制度是对妇女尊严的侵犯，因为它阻碍了妇女决定自己性取向的能动性、自主性和自由意志。 然而，乔吉尼妇女自己并不承认受到了侵犯。因此，该法律建议政府和非政府组织发起改革方案，以确保乔吉尼妇女的道德/伦理倾向，使其认识到这种习俗是对人类尊严的侵犯。 考虑到法律通过时乔吉尼和国家对违法行为的理解存在差异，以及过去二十年来乔吉尼妇女持续的改革努力，这项研究提出了最核心的问题：日常语言是如何jogini妇女参与或承认政府和非政府组织的做法和倾向政府声称他们的奉献侵犯了与权利和公民身份的法律的概念有关的固有的人类尊严？ 虽然拟议的研究将主要通过人种学研究进行，但将在金奈进行为期两个月的档案研究，并在海得拉巴与非政府组织和政府官员进行为期两个月的结构化访谈。这项研究将有助于在非西方地区传播在国际人权话语中广泛传播的人类尊严等概念，此外，它将有助于国家和法律的人类学文献，并为Co-PI开设人权，法律和国家人类学本科课程做好准备。 这项研究将通过学术期刊、文章和会议广泛传播。此外，它将成为印度非政府组织和独立研究组织的有用研究机构，致力于通过使用人类尊严等国际概念实现社会变革和政策变革。

Primary Investigators: Deborah Poole and Hester BetlemTitle: Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Pedagogy of Dignity: The Jogini System and the Making of Juridical Subjects in South India0720214AbstractThis research investigates 1) how non-government organized social reform in rural Andhra Pradesh, India makes actionable a state law prohibiting a custom perceived as incommensurable with human dignity and 2) how the objectives of reform are inhabited by former practitioners of this custom. The 1988 Andhra Pradesh Devadasi (Prohibition of Dedication) Act outlawed a custom, colloquially known as the jogini system, in which parents and other close kin dedicate young, low caste girls to a village Goddess. The system of sexual patronage that marks the system was understood, by government officials, to be a violation of a woman's dignity by deterring her agency, autonomy, and free will in determining her own sexuality. However, there was no self-recognition of violation from jogini women themselves. Consequently, the law recommended government and non-government initiated reform programs, in order to secure a moral/ethical disposition among jogini women that understands the custom to be a violation of human dignity. Given the discrepancy between jogini and state understandings of violation at the time the law was passed, and the sustained reform efforts among jogini women over the last two decades, this research asks most centrally: in what ways do the everyday languages, practices and dispositions of jogini women engage or acknowledge government and non-government claims that their dedications violate an innate human dignity tied to legal conceptions of rights and citizenship? Though the proposed research will primarily be conducted through ethnographic research, it will be supplemented with two months of Archival Research in Chennai and two months of stuctured interviews with NGO and government officials in Hyderabad. This research will contribute to sholarship about the dissemination of concepts like human dignity, which circulate widely in international human rights discourses, in non- western locales, In addition, it will contribute to anthropological literature on state and law, and prepare the Co-PI to conduct undergraduate courses on the anthropology of human rights, law and state. The research will be distributed widely through academic journall articles and conferences. Moreover, it will serve as a useful body of research for Indian non-governement organization and independent research organizations committed to effecting social change and policy changes through the use of international concepts like human dignity.