The Empire of Disgust: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Policy in India and the US Zoya Hasan, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Vidhu Verma

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Rajesh Sampath

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Sampath, R. (2020). The Empire of Disgust: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Policy in India and the US: Zoya Hasan, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Vidhu Verma. CASTE A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, 1(1), 244–246. https://doi.org/10.26812/caste.v1i1.13
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Rajesh Sampath

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General topics in applied moral and political philosophy; philosophy of development; comparative religions; theories of justice; development ethics; philosophy of law, comparative constitutional law, critical race theory, gender and sexuality studies, theories of human rights and theories of democracy

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Raj completed his PhD at the University of California, Irvine in the humanities with a concentration in modern continental European philosophy and critical theory at the Critical Theory Institute. He studied under the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the founder of deconstruction. His areas of specialization centered on the philosophy of history, historical time and epochal shifts. Subsequently, he did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley and a D.A.A.D. research scientist fellowship in Germany where he published articles in continental European philosophy. From 2006-2009, he was an adjunct lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and continued to serve on the Provost Council for College Eight at the University until June 2012.

His current research interests and disciplinary expertise include: twentieth century Anglo-American and European moral and political philosophy, philosophical theories of modernization and social-historical change, comparative constitutional law and legal philosophy, epistemology and the sociology of knowledge in comparative religious studies, and comparisons of Western philosophy and traditional African, Indian, and Chinese philosophy. Teaching interests include Critical Race Theory/Intersectionality, Global Queer and Gender studies, Anglo-American, European and Global South traditions of philosophical ethics, human rights, and theories of justice when applied to sustainable development issues.