All Outputs (3)

On Irreconciliation (2022)
Book
Mookherjee, N. (Ed.). (2022). On Irreconciliation. Wiley

On Irreconciliation focuses on the less examined but frequent ethnographic instances when survivors refuse to forgive in response to persistent impunity of past injustices, particularly, in the face of absence-presence of the rule of law and staged p... Read More about On Irreconciliation.

Birangona: towards ethical testimonies of sexual violence during conflict (2019)
Book
Mookherjee, N., & Keya, N. (2019). Birangona: towards ethical testimonies of sexual violence during conflict. Durham University. https://doi.org/10.15128/r1sb3978287

Labonno/Labony needs to do a school project on family memories of 1971, the Bangladesh War. When coming to ask her grandmother, she wakes the latter from one of her frequent nightmares. What follows is her grandmother’s (Nanu/Rehana) narration of the... Read More about Birangona: towards ethical testimonies of sexual violence during conflict.

The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971 (2015)
Book
Mookherjee, N. (2015). The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971. Duke University Press

Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women”). Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this cel... Read More about The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971.