ABSTRACT
Concerns around gender, caste, community, class, region, ethnicity, citizenship status, emplacement, sovereignty, technology, among others, fuel precarity along several intersecting axes. Social justice is a term that evokes specific experiences of precarity, marginality, and dispossession – each a concern of laws (domestic and international), and the constitution, especially Part IV, the Directive Principles of State Policy (see Baxi 1969). The relationship between law and technology is critical to an understanding of social justice, indeed of citizenship itself. Recent writing deliberates on the ways in which technology serves as a medium for the enforcement of law’s coercive power. In their diversity and plurality, they make for a scintillating conversation on the subject that is relevant both to a general and a specialist international, interdisciplinary readership for the insights they offer on the field of law, as well as the insights they offer on law’s travels in India.
