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Professor Nayanika Mookherjee's Outputs (10)

Comics as a Tool for Research on Gender Violence. Interview with Nayanika Mookherjee on the Graphic Novel Birangona. Towards Ethical Testimonies of Sexual Violence during Conflict (2019) (2022)
Journal Article
Mandolini, N., & Mookherjee, N. (2022). Comics as a Tool for Research on Gender Violence. Interview with Nayanika Mookherjee on the Graphic Novel Birangona. Towards Ethical Testimonies of Sexual Violence during Conflict (2019). Vista, 10, Article e022011. https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.4109

A banda desenhada e o recente formato de romance gráfico estão entre as formas de arte que os investigadores escolheram para divulgar e fornecer uma representação visual do seu trabalho. Esta relação entre banda desenhada e a investigação, que faz pa... Read More about Comics as a Tool for Research on Gender Violence. Interview with Nayanika Mookherjee on the Graphic Novel Birangona. Towards Ethical Testimonies of Sexual Violence during Conflict (2019).

Aurality of images in graphic ethnographies: Sexual violence during wars and memories of the feelings of fear (2022)
Journal Article
Mookherjee, N. (2022). Aurality of images in graphic ethnographies: Sexual violence during wars and memories of the feelings of fear. Sociological Review, 70(4), 686-699. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221108843

This article examines the role of graphic ethnography in mapping the objects and feelings of fear through the silence of images, through the aurality of this silence. By aurality, I refer to the sounds and feelings felt by the reader when seeing thes... Read More about Aurality of images in graphic ethnographies: Sexual violence during wars and memories of the feelings of fear.

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.

Irreconcilable times (2022)
Journal Article
Mookherjee, N. (2022). Irreconcilable times. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(S1), 153-178. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13760

In Denktagebuch (Thought diary, 1950-73), Hannah Arendt wrote that acts which cannot be forgiven are beyond punishment and hence cannot be reconciled to. In this essay, I draw from Arendt to further theorize and extend the concept of irreconciliation... Read More about Irreconcilable times.

Introduction: On irreconciliation (2022)
Journal Article
Mookherjee, N. (2022). Introduction: On irreconciliation. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(S1), 11-33. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13751

Most post-conflict reconciliatory exercises make it incumbent upon survivors to forgive, and seek closure as a demonstration of ‘moving on’. Various anthropologists have criticized reconciliation and related forms of ‘alternative justice’ extensively... Read More about Introduction: On irreconciliation.

‘Medicine in Name Only’: Mistrust and COVID-19 Among the Crowded Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh (2022)
Journal Article
Islam, S. N. E., Mookherjee, N., & Khan, N. (2022). ‘Medicine in Name Only’: Mistrust and COVID-19 Among the Crowded Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 9(2), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.9.2.5424

This article is an anthropological examination of the health-seeking behaviours of Rohingya refugees living in crowded camps in Bangladesh, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. One international organisation providing medical care in the Kutupalo... Read More about ‘Medicine in Name Only’: Mistrust and COVID-19 Among the Crowded Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh.

Historicising the Birangona: Interrogating the Politics of Commemorating the Wartime Rape of 1971 in the context of the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh (2022)
Journal Article
Mookherjee, N. (2022). Historicising the Birangona: Interrogating the Politics of Commemorating the Wartime Rape of 1971 in the context of the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh. Strategic Analysis, 45(6), 588-597. https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2021.2009663

Two decades ago, ‘1971’ was deemed to not have a market within Indian publishing houses and media outlets. Yet, one is struck by the contemporary Indian focus on the iconic figure of the Birangona – brave women, a title given by the State of Banglade... Read More about Historicising the Birangona: Interrogating the Politics of Commemorating the Wartime Rape of 1971 in the context of the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh.