Our Work – Publication by PhD candidate Akanksha Mehta

By Akanksha Mehta|December 17, 2015|Our Work, PhD Students, Publications|0 comments

PhD candidate Akanksha Mehta wrote an article titled, The aesthetics of “everyday” violence: narratives of violence and Hindu right-wing women, for a special issue of Critical Studies of Terrorism on Everyday Violence. Access it here. Abstract “Right-wing” movements see significant participation by women who espouse their exclusionary and violent politics while at the same time often contest their patriarchal spaces. Women also serve as discursive and symbolic markers that regularly form the basis of

Event – CGS Seminar Series – Transition and Inbetweenness; Negotiating Class and Gender in Indonesian Popular Cinema

Transition and Inbetweenness; Negotiating Class and Gender in Indonesian Popular Cinema 10 December 2015 5 PM, DLT, SOAS Dorce Gamalama is one of Indonesian television’s most well known celebrities. While she publicly defines herself as a woman, her career is very much based on her public profile as a male-to female transsexual. This paper focuses on Dorce’s performance of gender and class in two films in which she took the