Urban Hopes, Sexual Horrors: Communal Riots and the Narratives of Violent and Victimized Women in India
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Urban Hopes, Sexual Horrors : Communal Riots and the Narratives of Violent and Victimized Women in India. / Sen, Atreyee; Jasani, Rubina.
I: Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, Bind 39, Nr. 1, 2021, s. 28-47.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Urban Hopes, Sexual Horrors
T2 - Communal Riots and the Narratives of Violent and Victimized Women in India
AU - Sen, Atreyee
AU - Jasani, Rubina
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Academic discussions of women and the eruption of urban riots in India focus on a range of women’s testimonies. From this perspective, Hindu women who belong to prominent and powerful right-wing organisations demonstrate religious and physical prowess, while minority and unprotected Muslim women are victims during outbreaks of communal violence. This article aims, if not to undermine, but to unsettle these gendered binaries in women’s experiences as victims or perpetrators of urban violence. We suggest that poor women on both sides of exclusionary propaganda and nationalistic discourses experience the actual violent eruption of hostilities as personal suffering and collective loss. Our analysis highlights how these experiences are intimately related to women’s domestic and family relations, bereavement, mobility, their peripheral socio-economic position, anxieties about the integrity of female bodies, etc., over and above women’s disillusionment with the state, secular and faith-based organisations.
AB - Academic discussions of women and the eruption of urban riots in India focus on a range of women’s testimonies. From this perspective, Hindu women who belong to prominent and powerful right-wing organisations demonstrate religious and physical prowess, while minority and unprotected Muslim women are victims during outbreaks of communal violence. This article aims, if not to undermine, but to unsettle these gendered binaries in women’s experiences as victims or perpetrators of urban violence. We suggest that poor women on both sides of exclusionary propaganda and nationalistic discourses experience the actual violent eruption of hostilities as personal suffering and collective loss. Our analysis highlights how these experiences are intimately related to women’s domestic and family relations, bereavement, mobility, their peripheral socio-economic position, anxieties about the integrity of female bodies, etc., over and above women’s disillusionment with the state, secular and faith-based organisations.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - urban riots
KW - gender
KW - survival
KW - narratives
KW - sectarian violence
U2 - 10.22439/cjas.v39i1.6176
DO - 10.22439/cjas.v39i1.6176
M3 - Journal article
VL - 39
SP - 28
EP - 47
JO - Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies
JF - Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies
SN - 1395-4199
IS - 1
ER -
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