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Professor Nayanika Mookherjee's Outputs (63)

The Ethics of Apology: A Set of Commentaries (2009)
Journal Article
Mookherjee, N., Rapport, N., Josephides, L., Hage, G., Todd, L. R., & Cowlishaw, G. (2009). The Ethics of Apology: A Set of Commentaries. Critique of Anthropology, 29(3), 345-366. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x09336703

On 13 February 2008, the Australian government apologized to the ‘stolen generations’: those children of Aboriginal descent who were removed from their parents (usually their Aboriginal mothers) to be raised in white foster-homes and institutions adm... Read More about The Ethics of Apology: A Set of Commentaries.

Available motherhood: Legal technologies, ‘state of exception’ and the dekinning of ‘war babies’ in Bangladesh. (2007)
Journal Article
Mookherjee, N. (2007). Available motherhood: Legal technologies, ‘state of exception’ and the dekinning of ‘war babies’ in Bangladesh. Childhood: A journal of global child research, 14(3), 339-354. https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568207079213

This article takes an ethnographical approach to explore the `state of exception' through which legal technologies of abortion and adoption of `war-babies' (children born as a result of wartime rapes) in the Bangladesh war enabled the dekinning and e... Read More about Available motherhood: Legal technologies, ‘state of exception’ and the dekinning of ‘war babies’ in Bangladesh..

‘The Great Indian Novel’ and ‘Ranajit Guha’. (2004)
Book Chapter
Mookherjee, N. (2004). ‘The Great Indian Novel’ and ‘Ranajit Guha’. In J. Sanga (Ed.), South Asian Literature in English: An Encyclopaedia (120-125). Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.: