Jayati Lal
Biographic Data
| ID | 274755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jayati Lal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jayati |
| FAMILY NAME | Lal |
| SIGNATURE | LAL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Situating Locations
This chapter looks at the politics of representation and the epistemologies of locations in attempting to articulate a nonuniversalizing feminist methodology that goes beyond colonialist representations of "Third World women". It discusses the anthropological discourses on rethinking the project of ethnographic fieldwork and the politics of ethnographic writing, feminist discourses on, and critiques of, canonical ways of knowing and dominant epis…
(Un)becoming Women
This paper portrays the life stories of five factory workers in Delhi whose life trajectories run counter to normative femininity. As daughters and wives, they are neglected, abandoned or rejected by their families; they live alone, with their parents past the age that is their natal right, with siblings, or with families and men who are not related to them. I explore the circulation of their counternarratives and how their gender transgressions …
Expanding the Archives of Global Feminisms
This article provides an account of the development of an archive of oral history interviews of women’s movement scholars and activists in four countries (China, India, Poland, and the United States). It outlines the motivation for documenting comparative histories of feminisms in these different contexts and the contents of the archive. The article then illustrates the archive’s potential uses by scholars and educators, describing varied meaning…
On the Domestication of American Public Sociology
This article engages with the proposal and call for a renewed engagement with civil society by American academic sociology as put forth by Michael Burawoy's 2004 presidential theme for the American Sociological Association. An examination of the history of US academic interdisciplinary scholarship in area-studies programs suggests that the roots of such a knowledge enterprise in the American university are deeply embedded in state and market inte…
On the Domestication of American Public Sociology
This article engages with the proposal and call for a renewed engagement with civil society by American academic sociology as put forth by Michael Burawoy's 2004 presidential theme for the American Sociological Association. An examination of the history of US academic interdisciplinary scholarship in area-studies programs suggests that the roots of such a knowledge enterprise in the American university are deeply embedded in state and market inte…
(Un)becoming Women
This paper portrays the life stories of five factory workers in Delhi whose life trajectories run counter to normative femininity. As daughters and wives, they are neglected, abandoned or rejected by their families; they live alone, with their parents past the age that is their natal right, with siblings, or with families and men who are not related to them. I explore the circulation of their counternarratives and how their gender transgressions …
Expanding the Archives of Global Feminisms
This article provides an account of the development of an archive of oral history interviews of women’s movement scholars and activists in four countries (China, India, Poland, and the United States). It outlines the motivation for documenting comparative histories of feminisms in these different contexts and the contents of the archive. The article then illustrates the archive’s potential uses by scholars and educators, describing varied meaning…
On the Domestication of American Public Sociology
This article engages with the proposal and call for a renewed engagement with civil society by American academic sociology as put forth by Michael Burawoy's 2004 presidential theme for the American Sociological Association. An examination of the history of US academic interdisciplinary scholarship in area-studies programs suggests that the roots of such a knowledge enterprise in the American university are deeply embedded in state and market inte…
(Un)becoming Women
This paper portrays the life stories of five factory workers in Delhi whose life trajectories run counter to normative femininity. As daughters and wives, they are neglected, abandoned or rejected by their families; they live alone, with their parents past the age that is their natal right, with siblings, or with families and men who are not related to them. I explore the circulation of their counternarratives and how their gender transgressions …
Expanding the Archives of Global Feminisms
This article provides an account of the development of an archive of oral history interviews of women’s movement scholars and activists in four countries (China, India, Poland, and the United States). It outlines the motivation for documenting comparative histories of feminisms in these different contexts and the contents of the archive. The article then illustrates the archive’s potential uses by scholars and educators, describing varied meaning…
Situating Locations
This chapter looks at the politics of representation and the epistemologies of locations in attempting to articulate a nonuniversalizing feminist methodology that goes beyond colonialist representations of "Third World women". It discusses the anthropological discourses on rethinking the project of ethnographic fieldwork and the politics of ethnographic writing, feminist discourses on, and critiques of, canonical ways of knowing and dominant epis…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)