Supriya ROUTH | MaCI - Université Grenoble Alpes

Supriya ROUTH

is the Canada Research Chair in Labour Law & Social Justice and an Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, the University of British Columbia in Canada. His research interests include theoretical conceptualizations of work and labour law, workers’ organization initiatives, international labour law, atypical and informal workers in the Global South, and social justice and sustainable human development. Supriya has an internationally-recognized research agenda in labour and employment law with an emphasis on the legal exclusion of the vast majority of non-industrial workers in the Global South. He often engages the disciplines of law, political philosophy, and sociology in his socio-legal research. His research agenda combines empirical investigation with theoretical exploration.

Project at the MaCI

Postcolonial Justice and Regulation of Work

April - June 2024

The title of Supriya’s project at MaCI is: Postcolonial Justice and Regulation of Work. At MaCI, Supriya’s research proposal aims to develop an empirically-informed theoretical account of the law of work justified on the logic of just treatment of workers for their social contribution, thereby overcoming the conventional narrow conceptual lens of labour law, which explains work as a private contract. Such expansive conceptualization facilitates innovative regulatory interventions for an extensive range of working arrangements, including unpaid care and socio-ecologically beneficial work such as sustainable agriculture, water management, and waste recycling. Supriya conceives of work as a socio-political idea meriting workers’ social citizenship because of their social contribution. His expansive rationale to value work takes non-marketized reciprocity (exchange) seriously. As part of an expansive rationale to the regulation of work, Supriya expects to develop an account of law that is sensitive to sui generis participatory deliberation in postcolonial societies.

During the two-month fellowship period, Supriya hopes to explore the relationship between (what he calls) postcolonial deliberation (beyond formal deliberative institutions) and lawmaking. The exploration of this relationship is contextualized at the intersection between work as a human activity and its relationship to non-human nature/environment.

During the fellowship period in MaCI, Supriya is interested in meeting colleagues from different disciplines who are interested in the human work - non-human nature relationship and deliberative lawmaking in the context of that relationship.

Activities

11 June 2024 : GATES Evening Talk Regulating human relationship with nature: role of empirical reality & participatory lawmaking

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