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Locating A Shadowy State In Queer, Feminist Politics, Atreyee Majumder
Locating A Shadowy State In Queer, Feminist Politics, Atreyee Majumder
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In this commentary, part of a book forum on Srila Roy’s (2022) book ”Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India”, I argue that the feminist and queer movement, in response to the neoliberal turn in India, is not totally separate from the Indian state formations. In fact, a shadowy state emerges in the affective life of citizens as an expression of what Timothy Mitchell would have called “state effect”.
Devotee/Ethnographer: My Struggle At The Boundary Walls Of Participant Observation, Atreyee Majumder
Devotee/Ethnographer: My Struggle At The Boundary Walls Of Participant Observation, Atreyee Majumder
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This article demonstrates the difficulty of incorporating within the methodological ambit of ‘participant observation’, a possibility of the ethnographer herself staking claim in the religious truth claims of the community that constitute the subject of research. In so doing, this article provides a critique of the concept of participant observation to point out that participant observation anticipates the work of the ethnographer in participating in the physical, performative lives of the community that she purports to study, but never the internal life, especially the life of accessing a register of truth. I found myself in a curious situation as a …