Impact and Historical Review of Social Justice Movements in Tamil Nadu
The Centre for Social Justice and Equity (CSJE) of Madras School of Social Work, organised an Invited Lecture on “Impact and Historical Review of Social Justice Movements in Tamil Nadu”” for February 06, 2024 VC Hall. Honourable Speaker – Ms. V. Geetha, Social activist from Chennai gave the lecture cum discussion the topic.
Prof.M. Antony Stephen, Assistant Professor cum Program Coordinator introduced the speaker. Ms. Geetha is an active member in various women’s movement and She is influential in coining such as anti-caste pedagogy and pedagogy of self. The general discourse on justice has always been political and economic while social justice in most cases has always been side tracked and most dialogues arising about distributive justice is voiced by communist parties alone. And she goes on to ask how do we establish social justice and goes on to provide a solution. She says legislations are key to social justice and historic evidences too suggest the same while also justice has its roots in popular struggles and translates themselves into policy framework. In India the constitution plays a vital role in ensuring justice social, economic, political and the significance of the first amendment to the constitution empowered the state to make special provisions for the advancements of socially and economically backward classes.