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Equalizing Access
Affirmative Action in Higher Education: India, US, and South Africa
Zoya Hasan and Martha Nussbaum
296 pages
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215x140mm
978-0-19-807505-9
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Hardback
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05 January 2012
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- Topical and interdisciplinary analysis
- Case studies from India, USA, and South Africa
- Eminent and internationally recognized contributors
The idea of human equality and the requirement from the state to provide equal opportunity to all lie at the foundation of modern democracy. Focusing on the area of higher education, this volume discusses the notion of 'affirmative action', a generic term covering diverse measures-quotas, special institutions for the underprivileged, extra points on a 'scale of deprivation'-that are employed to ensure equal opportunity.
While analysing the situation in India, the volume also compares the debates and policies on affirmative action in India with those in the United States and South Africa. The essays explore the influence of the
'creamy layer' on marginalized groups in a community, the new trends in higher education in India, and the place of the hitherto overlooked disparities of gender, religion, and the urban/rural divide in the discourse on affirmative action. The contributors come from varied disciplines including politics, sociology, law, economics, philosophy, and governance.
Readership: Students and scholars of education, sociology, political science, law, and public administration, and the informed general audience.
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Zoya Hasan and Martha Nussbaum
Zoya Hasan is Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the Department of Philosophy, Law School, and Divinity School of the University of Chicago. Contributors:
Saleem Badat is Vice-Chancellor, Rhodes University, South Africa and former Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Higher Education, South Africa.;
Satish Deshpande is Professor, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.;
Rajeev Dhavan is Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India and Member, International Commission of Jurists.;
Jayati Ghosh is Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.;
Zoya Hasan is Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.;
P.S. Krishnan is a former Secretary to the Government of India and former Member-Secretary of the National Commission for Backward Classes, New Delhi.;
Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the Department of Philosophy, Law School, and Divinity School of the University of Chicago.;
D. Parthasarthy is Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.;
Prabhat Patnaik has recently retired from the Sukhamoy Chakravarty Chair in Planning and Development at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has also been the Vice-Chairman of the Kerala State Planning Board and is Editor of the journal Social Scientist.;
Henry S. Richardson is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.;
Thomas E. Weisskopf is Professor (Emeritus) of Economics at the University of Michigan, USA.;
Diane P. Wood is a Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, Chicago.
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Introduction (Zoya Hasan and Martha C. Nussbaum)
1: On the Sites of Remedial Justice: Colleges, Clinics, and the State (Henry S. Richardson)
2: Rethinking Affirmative Action in Admissions to Higher Educational Institutions (Thomas E. Weisskopf)
3: Affirmative Action and the Goals of Education (Martha C. Nussbaum)
4: Affirmative Action and the 'Efficiency Argument' (Prabhat Patnaik)
5: Indian Social Justice Vs. American Affirmative Action and the Case of Higher Education (P.S. Krishnan)
6: Redressing the Colonial/Apartheid Legacy: Social Equity, Redress, and Higher Education Admissions in Democratic South Africa (Saleem Badat)
7: Affirmative Action in Higher Education: The Ambivalent Experience of the United States (Diane P. Wood)
8: How Parliament Discusses Reservations: Examining the Debates on the Central Educational Bill (Rajeev Dhavan)
9: Towards a New Paradigm for Ensuring Universal Access to Quality Education (Jayati Ghosh)
10: Social Justice and Higher Education in India Today: Markets, States, Ideologies, and Inequalities in a Fluid Context (Satish Deshpande)
11: Trapped in an Invisible Present: Muslims and Inequalities in Higher Education (Zoya Hasan)
12: After Reservations: Caste, Institutional Isomorphism, and Affirmative Action in the IITs (D. Parthasarthy)
Notes on Contributors
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