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Professor Nayanika Mookherjee's Outputs (17)

1971: Pakistan's Past and Knowing What Not to Narrate (2023)
Book Chapter
Mookherjee, N. (2023). 1971: Pakistan's Past and Knowing What Not to Narrate. In A. Ali, & K. Asdar Ali (Eds.), Towards People's Histories in Pakistan: In(Audible) Voices, Forgotten Pasts (79-94). Bloomsbury Academic

Democracy in Scare Quotes: The Granularity of Control in the Hybrid State of Bangladesh (2021)
Book Chapter
Lacy, M., & Mookherjee, N. (2022). Democracy in Scare Quotes: The Granularity of Control in the Hybrid State of Bangladesh. In A. Ruud, & M. Hasan (Eds.), Masks of authoritarianism: Hegemony, power and public life in Bangladesh (237-246). (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4314-9_16

Hybrid cars. Hybrid workplaces. Hybrid war. Hybrid states. We are witnessing today the mixing of elements to create new forms of life, business, work, war and politics. In times of technological, geopolitical, social and political change, the ability... Read More about Democracy in Scare Quotes: The Granularity of Control in the Hybrid State of Bangladesh.

Graphic Ethnography and Generative Resilience of Sexual Violence in Conflict of the Birangonas (War-heroines) in Bangladesh (2021)
Book Chapter
Mookherjee, N. (2021). Graphic Ethnography and Generative Resilience of Sexual Violence in Conflict of the Birangonas (War-heroines) in Bangladesh. In J. Clark, & M. Ungar (Eds.), Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: How Societies Recover after Collective Violence. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108919500.007

The use of rape was common during the 1971 war in Bangladesh. Six days after the war ended, the new government publicly declared that any woman raped in the war was a birangona or ‘war heroine’. There exists a public memory of wartime rape through va... Read More about Graphic Ethnography and Generative Resilience of Sexual Violence in Conflict of the Birangonas (War-heroines) in Bangladesh.

‘Memory’ (2018)
Book Chapter
Mookherjee, N. (2018). ‘Memory’. In R. Bleiker (Ed.), Visual global politics. Routledge

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

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 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.: