Solanki, Gopika
Identity politics; Indigeneity and politics; Law and society; Cultural pluralism and intercultural accommodation; State-society relations; Gender and politics
- MA (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) PhD (McGill University)
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Associate Professor
Gopika Solanki鈥檚 research straddles disciplines of Political Science, Legal Anthropology, Women鈥檚 Studies, and Law. Her research interests include gender and politics, state-society relations, cultural pluralism and citizenship, legal pluralism and judicial politics, ethnicity, religion and politics, criminal law and governance, and South Asian politics. She is the author of Adjudication in Religious Family Laws: Cultural Accommodation, Legal Pluralism, and Gender Equality in India (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and the co-author of Journey from Violence to Crime: A Study of Domestic Violence in the City of Mumbai.
Gopika Solanki has been awarded a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant for the research project titled 鈥Counting on Adivasi women leaders: How electoral quotas shape ecological governance in Maharashtra, India.鈥 The project aims to generate insights on Adivasi women鈥檚 localized leadership. It is a designed in partnership with the Resource and Support Centre for Development (RSCD), a Mumbai-based organization that provides training and support to women leaders elected through gender quotas in Western India. Gopika Solanki has been invited by the Deputy Prime Minister鈥檚 Office, Government of Cambodia, to serve on their law reform commission as an international legal expert on religious laws.
She is currently working on book project on indigeneity, politics and the law. The book is tentatively titled 鈥淭he Split Personality of Law: Political Decentralization, Gender, and Adivasi Legal Mobilization in Western India.鈥
Selected Publications
Solanki, Gopika and Kalindi Kokal. Forthcoming. 鈥淗indu Marriage: 鈥楽acrament vs Contract,鈥 A Legal Conundrum鈥 In Nichols, Joel and Karin Carmit Yefet edited, Research Handbook on Family Law and Religion. Cheltenham: Elgar Edward.
Solanki, Gopika. 2023. 鈥淕overning Hindu Marriage or Interreligious Marriage?: Secularism from Below and State-Society Relations in the Adjudication of Marriage in India.鈥 Journal of Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis 55(2): 293-317.
Solanki, Gopika. 2023. 鈥淭ransgressive Spaces: Women鈥檚 Organizations and Intentional Interventions in Politics of Inter-religious Marriages鈥 in Michael edited 鈥Religions, Mumbai Style: Events, Media, Spaces.鈥 Delhi: Oxford University Press. Chapter 8.
Solanki, Gopika. 2018. “Adjudication in a Pluralized Legal Field: Proposing Communication as an Analytical Device.” In Kyriaki Topidi ed., Normative Pluralism and Human Rights: Social Normativities in Conflict. London: Routledge. Chapter 13.
Solanki, Gopika and Geetanjali Gangoli (2016) “Defining Domestic Violence and Women’s Autonomy in Law.” The Socio-Legal Review 12(1): 51-80.
Solanki, Gopika (2015). 鈥.鈥 In Peetush, Ashwani, and Jay Drydyk, eds., Human Rights: India and the West. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 256-292.
Solanki, Gopika (2011). Adjudication in Religious Family Laws: Cultural Accommodation, Legal Pluralism, and Gender Equality in India. Cambridge, Delhi, and New York: Cambridge University Press.
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