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Carceral feminism and the punitive state in Kerala State, India

In: Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought

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  • Devika Jayakumari

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This chapter is about feminism in Kerala, India and its engagement with the state in the new millennium. Kerala has been prominent in the international discourse of social development, especially for the achievements of its women in literacy and health. Since the 1990s, Kerala has been an interesting instance to observe the inter-workings of state feminism, feminist politics, and civil-social feminisms in the context of unmistakable historical shifts. I argue that the strengthening of the state’s carceral powers ostensibly to deliver justice to female victims of violence has, in the above context, served the increasingly punitive regional state and the ruling left party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which finds it useful to bolster its own version of ‘populist authoritarianism’.

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  • Devika Jayakumari, 2024. "Carceral feminism and the punitive state in Kerala State, India," Chapters, in: Mary Caputi & Patricia Moynagh (ed.), Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought, chapter 9, pages 193-217, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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