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Mechanism of oppression, Dalits and legal developments in India

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Asian Studies Centre
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Dr Dag Erik Berg speaks at the South Asian seminar.
There has been a tendency in caste studies to explain the origins and existence of caste, relying on structural approaches to explain how it is produced and by whom.
This paper seeks to step aside from such a focus in order to analyse enduring caste-based oppression of Dalits in India. To do so, I introduce the concept of mechanism of oppression, which means that upward social mobility is a trend that co-exists with atrocity. I suggest that the concept "mechanism of oppression" follows up common sense explanations among Dalit activists and that it represents one realist approach to address "the Dalit question" and caste exclusion. As an adequate starting point for analysing atrocities, this concept opens possibilities of understanding legal developments pertaining to the Scheduled Castes in India. The paper will refer to cases in Andhra Pradesh and lessons concerning dominance, atrocity and caste.

Dr Dag Erik Berg is a postdoctoral research fellow associated with the group on "Diversity and Inequality" at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Göttingen, Germany. Before joining CeMIS, he was Associate Professor in Intercultural Studies at NLA University College, Norway and has been previously affiliated with University of Bergen and SOAS, London. Berg has published articles on Dalit movements in Andhra Pradesh, law and governance in India as well as caste and race in intercultural perspective. His ongoing book project is concernDed with studying the Dalits in India and the relation between embedded social complexities of caste based oppression and the legal responses to redress social injustice. This presentation follows up his article in Asian Journal of Law and Society "Structural mechanism of oppression, law and the Dalit question in India" (2015).

This seminar series is organised with the support of the History Faculty.
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Asian Studies Centre
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Dag Erik Berg
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Dalit
india
oppression
Department: St Antony's College
Date Added: 24/03/2016
Duration: 00:45:35

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Marathon runner and coach, Mara Yamauchi (St. Anne’s, 1992)

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Alumni Voices
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Interview with Olympic athlete and public speaker Mara Yamauchi as part of the Alumni Voices Podcast series.
Olympic athlete and public speaker Mara Yamauchi shares her experiences training for competitive sports and offers an insight into what it takes to become a world-class long distance runner.
Studying PPE at St. Anne’s College, Mara started her career as a diplomat with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and was posted to Tokyo for four years, before returning to her dream of becoming a full-time athlete at the age of 33. Her career highlights include winning the bronze medal in the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games 10,000m, winning the 2008 Osaka Ladies’ Marathon, finishing runner-up in the 2009 London Marathon, and finishing sixth at the 2008 Beijing Olympics (the joint best performance ever by a British woman in the Olympic marathon).
For this podcast interview, Mara talks about her career in sport and more recently as a coach and public speaker. Mara has an impressive athletic record as the UK’s second fastest female marathon runner of all time and has worked with BBC Sport, British Athletics, and the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust.
Olympic athlete and public speaker Mara Yamauchi shares her experiences training for competitive sports and offers an insight into what it takes to become a world-class long distance runner.
Studying PPE at St. Anne’s College, Mara started her career as a diplomat with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and was posted to Tokyo for four years, before returning to her dream of becoming a full-time athlete at the age of 33. Her career highlights include winning the bronze medal in the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games 10,000m, winning the 2008 Osaka Ladies’ Marathon, finishing runner-up in the 2009 London Marathon, and finishing sixth at the 2008 Beijing Olympics (the joint best performance ever by a British woman in the Olympic marathon).
For this podcast interview, Mara talks about her career in sport and more recently as a coach and public speaker. Mara has an impressive athletic record as the UK’s second fastest female marathon runner of all time and has worked with BBC Sport, British Athletics, and the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust.
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Alumni Voices
People
Mara Yamauchi
Keywords
alumni
olympics
athletics
oxford
st anne's college
Department: Alumni Office
Date Added: 21/03/2016
Duration: 00:15:22

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The micro-politics of mobility and immobility

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International Migration Institute
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Jørgen Carling looks at the politics of the individual and the role of power relations in mobility and immobility
This presentation is part of the 2016 IMI Hilary Term seminar series, which seeks to interrogate the relationship between migration, politics and political change. The series offers a wide range of (inter)disciplinary, methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of the processes and outcomes that link migration, emigrants and immigrants with politics and political change.

The series seeks to discuss both how political actors govern migrants’ actions and movements ‘from above’, through policies and resources, and how migrants may shape politics ‘from below’, and can be grassroots ‘agents of change’. Key themes highlighted in this collection of seminars include research on diasporas, transnational engagement, im/migrant politics in origin and receiving countries and political change, and the implications of migration as manifestation of social transformation. The seminar series is organised and coordinated by IMI postdoctoral fellows Dr. Marieke Van Houte and Dr. Ali R. Chaudhary who are currently working on TRANSMIC, a Marie Curie-funded project, which explores the topic of migration, politics and political change.

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International Migration Institute
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Jørgen Carling
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individual
politics
power relations
mobility
migration
migrant
Department: Oxford Department of International Development
Date Added: 18/03/2016
Duration: 00:47:08

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Significant Form

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Unconscious Memory
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Semir Zeki gives a presentation entitled; The Neurobiology of Beauty, and Gerhard Lauer gives a talk entitled, Is there an Aesthetic Experience in this Experiment? The Chair is Professor Andrew Parker.

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Unconscious Memory
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Semir Zeki
Gerhard Lauer
Andrew Parker
Keywords
memory
neuroscience
literature
unconscious
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 18/03/2016
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Can Reparations transform Societies? The Practice of ‘Transformative Justice’ at the International Criminal Court (ICC)

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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Leila Ullrich, PhD in Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the OTJR seminar series.

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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Leila Ullrich
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law
politics
justice
ICC
international criminal courts
Department: Centre for Criminology
Date Added: 17/03/2016
Duration: 00:18:10

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The Rome Statute and its Prosecutorial Actors: Equal Brothers in Arms?

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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Matilde Gawronski, PhD in Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, five a talk for the OTJR seminar series.

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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Matilde Gawronski
Keywords
justice
politics
Rome Statute
law
Department: Centre for Criminology
Date Added: 17/03/2016
Duration: 00:24:15

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Africa versus the ICC: The Strategy of Regionalizing International Criminal Justice in the African Union and East African Community

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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Nicole de Silva, IKEA Research Fellow in International Relations at Oxford, gives a talk for the OTJR seminar series on 2nd March 2016.

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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Nicole de Silva
Keywords
justice
transitional justice
politics
law
Africa
ICC
Department: Centre for Criminology
Date Added: 17/03/2016
Duration: 00:34:00

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St Cross Seminar: Cognitive Enhancement: Defending the Parity Principle

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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In this episode, Professor Neil Levy assesses objections to cognitive enhancement and argues that the means don't matter from a moral perspective: what matters is how the intervention affects cognition.
According to the parity principle, the means whereby an agent intervenes in his or her mind, or the minds of others, is irrelevant when it comes to assessing the moral status of the intervention: what matters is how the intervention affects the agent. In this paper, I set out the case for the parity principle, before defending it from recent objections due to Christoph Bublitz and Reinhard Merkel. Bublitz and Merkel argue that direct interventions bypass agents’ psychological capacities and therefore produce states over which agents have less control and which are less reflective of who they genuinely are. I argue that direct interventions that are processed psychologically may be no less destructive of control or of the degree to which the resulting states are reflective of the agent, and, further, that direct interventions may be morally unproblematic. Given that right now and for the foreseeable future indirect interventions threaten our autonomy far more often and far more deeply than direct, the distinction between direct and indirect interventions doesn’t even provide a useful heuristic for assessing when an intervention into the mind/brain is problematic.

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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Neil Levy
Keywords
cognition
cognitive enhancement
enhancement
parity principle
Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Date Added: 17/03/2016
Duration: 00:47:07

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Can The Referendum Be Democratic? Reflections On The Brexit Process

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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
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Stephen Tierney, Professor of Constitutional Theory in the School of Law, University of Edinburgh,
In this FLJS lecture, Stephen Tierney, Professor of Constitutional Theory, University of Edinburgh, discusses the circumstances surrounding the forthcoming referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union.
We live in an age of direct democracy. Around the world the referendum is used more and more in processes of constitutional formation and change. This lecture will consider whether or not the referendum is an appropriate way to make such fundamental decisions, exploring the democratic strengths and weaknesses of referendum democracy.
The referendum has a bad name in political theory due to the assumption that it is always open to elite manipulation. The lecture will ask, however, whether a number of the perceived democratic failings of the referendum are in fact problems of practice rather than principle. In this context we will consider the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, which seemed to dispel some of the criticisms of direct democracy.
But what of the circumstances surrounding the forthcoming referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union? Do these augur well for a free, fair and deliberative process? Stephen Tierney is Professor of Constitutional Theory in the School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law and ESRC Senior Research Fellow with the Centre of Constitutional Change.

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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
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Stephen Tierney
Keywords
law
politics
EU
referendum
democracy
Brexit
EU referendum
Department: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Date Added: 15/03/2016
Duration: 00:52:40

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Paying attention to the journey

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Anthropology
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In this Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, Ginny Mounce (Oxford) discusses couples' experiences of investigating and starting infertility treatments, 19 October 2015
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Anthropology
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Ginny Mounce
Keywords
anthropology
society
pregnancy
infertility
miscarriage
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 14/03/2016
Duration: 00:39:54

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