Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction. The international women's movements have constructed `women's experience', as well as uncovered or discovered this crucial collective object. This experience is a fiction and a fact of the most crucial, political kind. Liberation rests on the construction of the consciousness, the imag...

Social movements of every stripe have mobilized law in order to confront contemporary injustices and redetermine social experiences expectations. The multiple disciplinary literatures that track evaluate these strategies provide a rich picture legal political mobilization at different scales relative successes. This article draws together the shared concern for strategic litigation labour schol...

It is a piece of idle senthentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, or prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application oflegal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in th...

This paper develops a theory of the interaction between appropriative conflict and economic growth. Appropriative conflict, as measured by the diversion of resources, is viewed as the cost of securing effective property rights. We identify conditions under which conflict rises or falls as the rate of economic growth improves. The main implication of the analysis is that if the quality of proper...

in british india, moslems according to political & social conditions began cultural activities, especially the thinkers established institutions for islamic education. among the first islamic schools in the midle of 19th century, dar ul-ulum of deobands has a special position.its founders has used the new system of instruction, but they insisted on the old islamic books for instruction. also th...