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

作者：Deborah Poole and Hester betlem标题：博士论文研究：尊严的教育：南印度的约吉尼制度与法律主体的形成摘要本研究探讨了1)印度安得拉邦农村非政府组织的社会改革如何使一项禁止与人类尊严不可通约的习俗的州法律具有可操作性，以及2)改革目标如何被这一习俗的前实践者所接受。1988年，安得拉邦颁布了《禁止奉献法》（Devadasi），禁止了一种俗称“jogini制度”的习俗，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，标志着这一制度的性赞助制度是对女性尊严的侵犯，因为它阻碍了女性决定自己性取向的能动性、自主性和自由意志。然而，乔吉尼妇女自己并没有意识到自己受到了侵犯。因此，该法律建议政府和非政府组织发起改革方案，以确保约吉尼妇女的道德/伦理倾向，使她们明白这种习俗是对人类尊严的侵犯。鉴于法律通过时约吉尼族和国家对违法行为的理解存在差异，以及约吉尼族妇女在过去二十年中持续的改革努力，本研究最核心的问题是：约吉尼族妇女的日常语言、实践和性格以何种方式参与或承认政府和非政府声称她们的奉献违反了与权利和公民身份的法律概念相关的先天人类尊严？虽然拟议的研究将主要通过人种学研究进行，但它将辅以在金奈进行两个月的档案研究和在海得拉巴与非政府组织和政府官员进行两个月的结构化访谈。这项研究将有助于在非西方地区广泛传播的国际人权话语中广泛传播的人类尊严等概念的学术研究，此外，它将有助于关于国家和法律的人类学文献，并为共同pi开设人权，法律和国家人类学的本科课程做好准备。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致力于通过使用人类尊严等国际概念来实现社会变革和政策变革的独立研究组织的有用研究机构。

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.