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Professor Nayanika Mookherjee's Outputs (63)

Desh: the aesthetics of staging the nation (2016)
Book Chapter
Mookherjee, N. (2016). Desh: the aesthetics of staging the nation. In K. Ashraf (Ed.), Locations : an anthropology of architecture and urbanism (12-21). ORO Editions and Bengal Foundation

History and the Birangona: The ethics of representing narratives of sexual violence of the 1971 Bangladesh war (2015)
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Mookherjee, N. (2015). History and the Birangona: The ethics of representing narratives of sexual violence of the 1971 Bangladesh war

In December 1971, East Pakistan became the independent nation of Bangladesh after a nine-month war with West Pakistan and their local Bengali collaborators. Faced with a huge population of rape survivors, the new Bangladeshi government – six days aft... Read More about History and the Birangona: The ethics of representing narratives of sexual violence of the 1971 Bangladesh war.

The raped woman as a horrific sublime and the Bangladesh war of 1971 (2015)
Journal Article
Mookherjee, N. (2015). The raped woman as a horrific sublime and the Bangladesh war of 1971. Journal of Material Culture, 20(4), 379-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183515603742

This article examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics when invoking the imagery of war-time rape. It explores the prevalent way in which the raped woman of the Bangladesh war of 1971 is imagined in contemporary Bangladesh through the... Read More about The raped woman as a horrific sublime and the Bangladesh war of 1971.

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.

In pursuit of the ‘authentic’ Bengali: Impressions and observations of a Contested Diaspora (2014)
Book Chapter
Mookherjee, N. (2014). In pursuit of the ‘authentic’ Bengali: Impressions and observations of a Contested Diaspora. In M. N. Chakraborty (Ed.), Being Bengali : at home and in the world (140-158). Routledge

This article examines the commonalities and differences constructed among different Bengali diasporic communities in London that purport to determine the authenticity of an ethnic Bengali identity. I argue that the ‘dominant’, homogenous discourse of... Read More about In pursuit of the ‘authentic’ Bengali: Impressions and observations of a Contested Diaspora.

Twenty-first century ethics for audited anthropologists. (2012)
Book Chapter
Mookherjee, N. (2012). Twenty-first century ethics for audited anthropologists. In R. Fardon, J. Gledhill, O. (. Harris, T. Marchand, M. Nuttall, C. Shore, …R. Wilson (Eds.), Sage Handbook of Social Anhropology (130-140.). Published with the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth

The absent piece of skin: Gendered, racialized and territorial inscriptions of sexual violence during the Bangladesh war (2012)
Journal Article
Mookherjee, N. (2012). The absent piece of skin: Gendered, racialized and territorial inscriptions of sexual violence during the Bangladesh war. Modern Asian Studies, 46(6), 1572-1601. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x11000783

This paper addresses how the wombs of women and the absent skin on the circumcised penises of men become the predominant sites on which racialized and gendered discourses operating during the Bangladesh War are inscribed. This is explored by examinin... Read More about The absent piece of skin: Gendered, racialized and territorial inscriptions of sexual violence during the Bangladesh war.