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Karine Bates is an associate professor at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Montreal, specializing in legal anthropology. Her research focuses on legal pluralism in India through the study of the diversity of discourses and practices of women in relation to their access to justice processes. She explores how these women perceive and experience the interaction between state-proposed conflict resolution mechanisms and family-level conflict resolution modes, including community dynamics. This research involves studying the empirical dynamics of pluralism in relation to legal and social reforms connected to Hindu property law and their impacts on gender dynamics. Since 2021, her ethnographic expertise developed in India has shifted to the study of the judicial process experiences of asylum seekers in Quebec. Her work has significant implications for understanding contemporary India, the political and social fabric, and the intersectionality of law and gender.
University of Montreal • Montreal, Canada
Teaching and researching topics related to legal anthropology and gender studies.
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