Fields of Expertise
Biography
Radha D’Souza is Reader in Law at the School of Law, University of Westminster, London. She is author of Interstate Disputes Over Krishna Waters: Law, Science and Imperialism (Orient Longman India, 2006) and numerous articles and book chapters. Her research interests include global and social justice, social movements, law and development, colonialism and imperialism, social theory, socio-legal studies in the “Third World” and water conflicts. She teaches Law and Development and Public International Law and has previously taught in Sociology, Development Studies, Human Geography besides Public Law and Legal Theory. Radha is a social justice activist and practiced as barrister at the High Court of Mumbai in India. She has been involved in public interest litigation in India and in international campaigns on globalisation and Third World. Her articles have been published in Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal (LDG), Social & Legal Studies, Natural Resources Journal, Journal of Critical Realism, Political Geography, Geoforum, Philosophy East and West, McGill Journal of Education, Economic and Political Weekly, Polylog: Journal of Intercultural Philosophy and Osgoode Hall Law Journal, among others.
Bibliography
Recent Publications
‘Interstate Conflicts Over Krishna Waters: Law, Science and Imperialism’, (New Delhi: Orient Longmans Pvt. Ltd. 2006). (560 pages, 24 maps, 43 tables, 3 fig, bibliography, index) (sole author) [ISBN 81 250 2010 9].
‘Network Imperialism: Law and Science in Network Society’ (forthcoming).
‘The UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Neoliberalism and Standard Setting in the UN System’ (forthcoming).
‘What can Activist Scholars Learn from Rumi?’ Philosophy East and West, vol. 64:1 2014
‘Is There A Legal Right To Development?’ in Desai, Vandana and Robert Potter (eds) ‘The Companion to Development Studies’ [London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.] (in press) 2013.
‘Return of the ‘Land Question’ in Times of Crises’ DIALOG: Aboriginal People’s Knowledge and Research Network June 2013.
‘Listening to the Elders as Keepers of the Water’ in Corrine Kumar (ed) “Asking, We Walk: South as New Political Imaginary” Streelekha Publications, Bangalore India: 2013.
‘Imperialism and Self Determination: Revisiting the Nexus in Lenin’ Economic & Political Weekly (Special Articles) April 13, 2013 vol xlvIiI no 15 p. 60-69.
‘Rights, Action, Change: Organize for What?’ in Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley and Eric Shragge (eds) in ‘Organize: Building from the Local for Global Justice’ (PM Press, Montreal, Canada) 2012 at p. 71-81.
‘Imperial Agendas, Global Solidarities and Socio-legal Scholarship on the Third World: Methodological Reflections’ Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Summer 49:3:2012 p. 6-43
‘When Unreason Masquerades as Reason: Can Law Regulate Trade and Networked Communication Ethically?’ in G. Cheny, S. May and D. Munshi (eds) “Handbook of Communication Ethics” (International Communication Association, Routledge/Lawrence Erlbaum), 2011 ch. 28 p. 475-493
‘Three Actors, Two Geographies, One Philosophy: The Straightjacket of Social Movements’ in Alf Nielsen and Sarra Motta (eds) “Social Movements and/in the Postcolonial: Dispossession, Development and Resistance in the Global South” (Basingstoke, Hampshire; Palgrave), 2011 at ch.10 p. 227-249.
Portuguese translation in Cintra Martins, Maria Sílvia (Org.). Ensaios sobre o Multiculturalismo: Literatura, Cultura e Direitos de indígenas em época de globalização. Campinas: Mercado de Letras, 2013.
‘The Rights Conundrum: Poverty of Philosophy Amidst Poverty’ in Banakar, R. (ed) “Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society” (Basingstoke Ashgate), 2010 at ch.3 p. 55-69.
Portuguese translation published in Meritum: Revista De Direito Da Universidade FUMEC vol. 6:1 p. 13 – 49, 2011. [ISSN1980-2072].
‘Law and ‘Development' Discourses About Water: Understanding Agency in Regime Changes’ in P. Cullet, A. Gowlland-Gualtieri, R. Madhav & U. Ramanathan (eds) “Water Governance in Motion: Towards Socially And Environmentally Sustainable Water Laws” (New Delhi, Cambridge University Press), 2010 Ch. 17 pp.491-522.
Nation vs Peoples: Inter-state Water Disputes in India's Supreme Court in Iyer, Ramaswamy R., (ed.), “Water and the Laws in India“ (New Delhi: Sage), 2009 at ch. 4 p.58-93.
“The Prison Houses of Knowledge: Activist Scholarship and Revolution in the Era of “Globalisation” McGill Journal of Education 44:1 2009 at p. 1-20.
Portuguese translation “As prisões do conhecimento: pesquisa activista e revolução na era da “globalização”, in Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Maria Paula Menese (eds) Epistemologias du Sul (Sao Paulo: Cotez Editora, 2010) ch.4 p. 131-156 [ISBN: ISBN 9789724043845].
Water Resources Development and Water Conflicts in Two Indian Ocean States in Timothy Doyle and Melissa Riseley (Eds.) “Crucible for Survival: Environmental Security and Justice in the Indian Ocean Region” ( New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press), 2008 pp.157-170.
‘Liberal Theory, Human Rights and Water-Justice: Back to Square One?’ Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal (LDG) 2008:1 p.1-15.[ ISSN: 1467-0437] http://www.go.warwick.ac.uk/elj/lgd/2008_1/desouza
‘Looking Into the Crystal Ball: “Civil Society” and “Humanity” in the 21st Century’: Polylog: Journal of Intercultural Philosophy 2007: vol 18 p. 55-62
‘The 'Third World' and Socio-legal Studies: Neo-liberalism and Lessons from India's Legal Innovations’: Social & Legal Studies vol.4 No 4 (2005) p. 487-513.
‘Colonial Law And The Tungabhadra Disputes: Lifting The Veil Over The Agreement of 1892: Natural Resources Journal Volume 45, No. 2, 2005, p. 311-344
‘The Democracy-Development Tension In Dam Projects: The Long Hand Of The Law, Political Geography Vol. 23:6, 2004 p. 701-730.
Re-envisioning Transboundary Water Disputes as Development Conflicts in Dennis Rumley and Sanjay Chaturvedi (editors), “Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism And Security In The Indian Ocean” (New Delhi, South Asian Publishers), 2004 p. 172-193 (book chapter, sole author). [ISBN 81-7003-281-4].
Global Commons: But Where is the Community? in Robert P Yagelski and Rober K Miller (editors) ‘The Informed Argument’ (Thomson/Wadsworth: 6th edition), 2004 p. 370-373 (book chapter) [ISBN 0-1550-6983-7].
'At the Confluence of Law and Geography: Inter-State Water Disputes in India', Geoforum, vol.33:2, 2002 at p. 255-269.