N Mookherjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 10983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Mookherjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Mookherjee |
| SIGNATURE | MOOKHERJEE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8994-4769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa
Drawing from the extensive literature on the anthropology of borders and border death in and beyond Europe, this article ethnographically explores the processes through which irregular migrants and locals at the borderland of Lampedusa (south of Sicily, Italy) are left to live and die in abandonment. In the process, we highlight the distinct and antagonistic yet shared sense of neglect that both migrants and locals experience in their everyday li…
Occupying' the womb: Disrupted kinship futures and sovereign logics in sexual violence during wars
This article seeks to ethnographically highlight the multiple uses of gene/alogy (as explored by Franklin and McKinnon in the 2000s) in the context of the Bangladesh war of 1971, and hence maps out the range of violence and ambivalences at the heart of kinship. It aims to do so by exploring the process through which disrupted kinship futures are seen as a cornerstone for discourses of war and sovereign practices to justify sexual violence during …
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)
Comics and the recently emerged graphic novel format are among the art forms that researchers have chosen to disseminate and provide a visual representation of their work. This relationship between comics and research, which is part of a practice labelled as “arts-based research”, has been facilitated by comics’ recognised narrative and didactic abilities. Research on gender-based violence has not been deaf to the call of comics art, and, in some…
Medicine in Name Only: Mistrust and Covid-19 Among the Crowded Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh
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 Kutupalong camp has found non-cooperation among the residents regarding the health facilities on offer to them. This ethnography highlights the Rohingya refugees' active 'mistrust' (Carey 2017) of these medic…
Aurality of images in graphic ethnographies: Sexual violence during wars and memories of the feelings of fear
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 these images in their colours, visuality and contexts which are not brought out by words and texts alone. The article explores the new sociographies that emerge from this intercitationality of visceral fe…
Irreconcilable times
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. I draw together ethnographic material, historical material, documents, media reports, and reviews during this era of irreconcilability which includes Black Lives Matter; the memorialization debates …
Introduction: On irreconciliation
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 but within the framework of maintaining social bonds and the rule of law. In this introduction, I reflect critically on the interdisciplinary scholarship on reconciliation, apology, and forgiveness, …
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: How Societies Recover after Collective Violence
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element…
Introduction to the Basas 2019 special section
This special section of Contemporary South Asia is dedicated to the papers presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS). The 2019 Conference wa
Firing cannons to kill mosquitoes: Controlling 'virtual streets' and the 'image of the state' in Bangladesh
This article examines the historical, social and political legacies of the Information and Communication Technology Act (ICT Act) (2006-2018, amended in 2013) and the Digital Security Act (DSA) (2018-) in the Bangladeshi state's attempt to control the 'virtual streets' of Bangladesh. The application of ICT and DSA has become an increasingly visible and controversial means to provide the spectacle of a state that extends disciplinary power and gov…
Aesthetics, politics, conflict
This special issue brings together an anthropologically
The raped woman as a horrific sublime and the Bangladesh war of 1971
This article examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics when invoking the imagery of war-time rape. It explores the prevalent way in which the raped woman of the Bangladesh war of 1971 is imagined in contemporary Bangladesh through the circulation of rumours, narratives of encounters and photographs. In 1971, faced with a large number of rape survivors after the war, the Bangladeshi government publicly designated any woman raped in…
Introduction: Self in South Asia
The so called western, rational, individual, autonomous, self marked by freedom, potential and choice and deemed essential for modernity has predominantly been juxtaposed with the presumed collective, static, bounded, "identity" of the "non-west" and its inhabitants. Anthropological scholarship has thus been marked by its focus on the "identity" of its subjects (drawn from a collective and shared with others) instead of a self. Nowhere has this t…
Twenty-first Century Ethics for Audited Anthropologists
The absent piece of skin: Gendered, racialized and territorial inscriptions of sexual violence during the Bangladesh war
This paper addresses how the wombs of women and the absent skin on the circumcised penises of men become the predominant sites on which racialized and gendered discourses operating during the Bangladesh War are inscribed. This is explored by examining instances of sexual violence by Pakistani soldiers and their local Bengali collaborators. The prevalence of these discourses in colonial documents about the Bengali Muslims underscores the role of h…
Reproductive Heteronormativity and Sexual Violence in the Bangladesh War of 1971
In 1971, the formation of Bangladesh coincided with the death of a large number of civilians and the rape of many women. In stark contrast to the assumption of complete silence relating to war-time rape, the independent Bangladeshi government publicly designated that all women raped as a result of the war in 1971 were birangonas (war heroines). This effort remains internationally unprecedented and yet unknown to many apart from Bangladeshis. The …
Mobilising Images: Encounters of 'Forced' Migrants and the Bangladesh War of 1971
In trying to outline the relationship between mobilities and cosmopolitanism, the nation state is always posited by scholars against cosmopolitanism. Mobility of images however, instead of denationalising spaces in fact fortifies the stereotypes of different territories. The cosmopolitan outlook that is deemed to be inherent to critical mobilities can identify with these mobile images and ideas precisely because of what is already perceived about…
Never again: Aesthetics of 'genocidal' cosmopolitanism and the Bangladesh Liberation War Museum
This paper seeks to explore the affective aesthetics that are generated through the perceptions of 'genocidal' horrors in relation to accounts of sexual violence during wars, and to engagements with war memorials and museums commemorating such atrocities. In particular it focuses on the trope 'never again', which aptly captures the search for juridical and moral justice linked to events of conflict and violence in the twentieth and twenty-first c…
The aesthetics of nations: Anthropological and Historical Approaches
The nation, it is increasingly recognized, needs to be performed and materialized. The representation of national conflicts and contested pasts by governments and communities through various aesthetic artefacts and practices seeks to evoke and regulate multiple senses and feelings. But is a straightforwardly productive affect -feeling- always manifested? In this introduction, I reflect critically on some of the anthropological scholarship on nati…
The ethics of apology: Open meeting at the joint international conference of the ASA, the Asaanz and the AAS, Auckland, 9 December 2008
Debates on Ethical Practice: A Perspective from the Association of Social Anthropologists
The Ethics of Apology: A Set of Commentaries
■ On 13 February 2008, the Australian government apologized to the 'stolen generations': those children of Aboriginal descent who were removed from their parents (usually their Aboriginal mothers) to be raised in white foster-homes and institutions administered by government and Christian churches - a practice that lasted from before the First World War to the early 1970s. This apology was significant, in the words of Rudd, for the 'healing' of t…
Culinary Boundaries and the Making of Place in Bangladesh
Food constitutes the central trope of place-making of Bangladesh in West Bengal, through various metaphors of excess and lack. South Asian ethnographies on food have focussed primarily on the cosmological and symbolic characteristics of ‘Hindu’ (read South Asian) food, which appear as bounded experiences. Rather than focusing on ‘Hindu’ or ‘South Asian’ food, this article explores the vegetarian/non-vegetarian culinary boundaries and permeations …
Gendered Embodiments: Mapping the Body-Politic of the Raped Woman and the Nation in Bangladesh
There has been much academic work outlining the complex links between women and the nation. Women provide legitimacy to the political projects of the nation in particular social and historical contexts. This article focuses on the gendered symbolization of the nation through the rhetoric of the 'motherland' and the manipulation of this rhetoric in the context of national struggle in Bangladesh. I show the ways in which the visual representation o…
The “Dead and Their Double Duties”: Mourning, Melancholia, and the Martyred Intellectual Memorials in Bangladesh
Memorialization of valor and losses through war memorials unquestioningly presume that material objects stand for and embody memory. In exploring this relationship, this article focuses on the evocation of mourning and melancholia in the annual commemorations at the site of two war memorials dedicated to the Martyred Intellectuals of the Bangladesh War of 1971. Following a discussion of the increased ethnographic reconceptualization of culture in…
Remembering to forget: Public secrecy and memory of sexual violence in the Bangladesh war of 1971
This article explores the processes through which the 'public secrecy' of rape during the Bangladesh war of 1971 operates within the present-day ethnographic context. It examines contemporary commemorations of the war and of women who have achieved local and national fame as rape victims (euphemistically referred to as 'war heroines'). The article analyses the discrepancy between raped women's national position as icons of 'honour' and their loca…
The aesthetics of nations: Anthropological and Historical Approaches
The nation, it is increasingly recognized, needs to be performed and materialized. The representation of national conflicts and contested pasts by governments and communities through various aesthetic artefacts and practices seeks to evoke and regulate multiple senses and feelings. But is a straightforwardly productive affect -feeling- always manifested? In this introduction, I reflect critically on some of the anthropological scholarship on nati…
Never again: Aesthetics of 'genocidal' cosmopolitanism and the Bangladesh Liberation War Museum
This paper seeks to explore the affective aesthetics that are generated through the perceptions of 'genocidal' horrors in relation to accounts of sexual violence during wars, and to engagements with war memorials and museums commemorating such atrocities. In particular it focuses on the trope 'never again', which aptly captures the search for juridical and moral justice linked to events of conflict and violence in the twentieth and twenty-first c…
The “Dead and Their Double Duties”: Mourning, Melancholia, and the Martyred Intellectual Memorials in Bangladesh
Memorialization of valor and losses through war memorials unquestioningly presume that material objects stand for and embody memory. In exploring this relationship, this article focuses on the evocation of mourning and melancholia in the annual commemorations at the site of two war memorials dedicated to the Martyred Intellectuals of the Bangladesh War of 1971. Following a discussion of the increased ethnographic reconceptualization of culture in…
Introduction: On irreconciliation
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 but within the framework of maintaining social bonds and the rule of law. In this introduction, I reflect critically on the interdisciplinary scholarship on reconciliation, apology, and forgiveness, …
The raped woman as a horrific sublime and the Bangladesh war of 1971
This article examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics when invoking the imagery of war-time rape. It explores the prevalent way in which the raped woman of the Bangladesh war of 1971 is imagined in contemporary Bangladesh through the circulation of rumours, narratives of encounters and photographs. In 1971, faced with a large number of rape survivors after the war, the Bangladeshi government publicly designated any woman raped in…
The Ethics of Apology: A Set of Commentaries
■ On 13 February 2008, the Australian government apologized to the 'stolen generations': those children of Aboriginal descent who were removed from their parents (usually their Aboriginal mothers) to be raised in white foster-homes and institutions administered by government and Christian churches - a practice that lasted from before the First World War to the early 1970s. This apology was significant, in the words of Rudd, for the 'healing' of t…
Gendered Embodiments: Mapping the Body-Politic of the Raped Woman and the Nation in Bangladesh
There has been much academic work outlining the complex links between women and the nation. Women provide legitimacy to the political projects of the nation in particular social and historical contexts. This article focuses on the gendered symbolization of the nation through the rhetoric of the 'motherland' and the manipulation of this rhetoric in the context of national struggle in Bangladesh. I show the ways in which the visual representation o…
Available Motherhood: Legal technologies, `state of exception' and the dekinning of `war-babies' in Bangladesh
This article takes an ethnographical approach to explore the `state of exception' through which legal technologies of abortion and adoption of `war-babies' (children born as a result of wartime rapes) in the Bangladesh war enabled the dekinning and elimination of certain childhoods while the raped women were rekinned within legitimate heterosexual motherhoods. The role of the law in guaranteeing an erasure of blood relations ensured the regulatio…
The absent piece of skin: Gendered, racialized and territorial inscriptions of sexual violence during the Bangladesh war
This paper addresses how the wombs of women and the absent skin on the circumcised penises of men become the predominant sites on which racialized and gendered discourses operating during the Bangladesh War are inscribed. This is explored by examining instances of sexual violence by Pakistani soldiers and their local Bengali collaborators. The prevalence of these discourses in colonial documents about the Bengali Muslims underscores the role of h…
Aesthetics, politics, conflict
This special issue brings together an anthropologically
Introduction: Self in South Asia
The so called western, rational, individual, autonomous, self marked by freedom, potential and choice and deemed essential for modernity has predominantly been juxtaposed with the presumed collective, static, bounded, "identity" of the "non-west" and its inhabitants. Anthropological scholarship has thus been marked by its focus on the "identity" of its subjects (drawn from a collective and shared with others) instead of a self. Nowhere has this t…
Firing cannons to kill mosquitoes: Controlling 'virtual streets' and the 'image of the state' in Bangladesh
This article examines the historical, social and political legacies of the Information and Communication Technology Act (ICT Act) (2006-2018, amended in 2013) and the Digital Security Act (DSA) (2018-) in the Bangladeshi state's attempt to control the 'virtual streets' of Bangladesh. The application of ICT and DSA has become an increasingly visible and controversial means to provide the spectacle of a state that extends disciplinary power and gov…
Mobilising Images: Encounters of 'Forced' Migrants and the Bangladesh War of 1971
In trying to outline the relationship between mobilities and cosmopolitanism, the nation state is always posited by scholars against cosmopolitanism. Mobility of images however, instead of denationalising spaces in fact fortifies the stereotypes of different territories. The cosmopolitan outlook that is deemed to be inherent to critical mobilities can identify with these mobile images and ideas precisely because of what is already perceived about…
The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa
Drawing from the extensive literature on the anthropology of borders and border death in and beyond Europe, this article ethnographically explores the processes through which irregular migrants and locals at the borderland of Lampedusa (south of Sicily, Italy) are left to live and die in abandonment. In the process, we highlight the distinct and antagonistic yet shared sense of neglect that both migrants and locals experience in their everyday li…
Occupying' the womb: Disrupted kinship futures and sovereign logics in sexual violence during wars
This article seeks to ethnographically highlight the multiple uses of gene/alogy (as explored by Franklin and McKinnon in the 2000s) in the context of the Bangladesh war of 1971, and hence maps out the range of violence and ambivalences at the heart of kinship. It aims to do so by exploring the process through which disrupted kinship futures are seen as a cornerstone for discourses of war and sovereign practices to justify sexual violence during …
Irreconcilable times
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. I draw together ethnographic material, historical material, documents, media reports, and reviews during this era of irreconcilability which includes Black Lives Matter; the memorialization debates …
Reproductive Heteronormativity and Sexual Violence in the Bangladesh War of 1971
In 1971, the formation of Bangladesh coincided with the death of a large number of civilians and the rape of many women. In stark contrast to the assumption of complete silence relating to war-time rape, the independent Bangladeshi government publicly designated that all women raped as a result of the war in 1971 were birangonas (war heroines). This effort remains internationally unprecedented and yet unknown to many apart from Bangladeshis. The …
Culinary Boundaries and the Making of Place in Bangladesh
Food constitutes the central trope of place-making of Bangladesh in West Bengal, through various metaphors of excess and lack. South Asian ethnographies on food have focussed primarily on the cosmological and symbolic characteristics of ‘Hindu’ (read South Asian) food, which appear as bounded experiences. Rather than focusing on ‘Hindu’ or ‘South Asian’ food, this article explores the vegetarian/non-vegetarian culinary boundaries and permeations …
Aurality of images in graphic ethnographies: Sexual violence during wars and memories of the feelings of fear
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 these images in their colours, visuality and contexts which are not brought out by words and texts alone. The article explores the new sociographies that emerge from this intercitationality of visceral fe…
Dressed for Fieldwork: Sartorial borders and negotiations
Deciding what to wear is one of the ways in which people try to pin down meaning, and control both presentations and interpretations of selfhood. This paper explores this negotiation of meaning in the context of the clothing practices of the ethnographer, and the judgements that are made by people in the field based on the former’s sartorial expressions. This brings to light the dialectic process of reification of identity that exists on both sid…
Obituary - In memory of a friend - Justine Lucas (June 1968 - July 2000)
Social memory and history: Anthropological perspectives – Edited by Jacob J. Climo & Maria G. Cattell
Remembering to forget: Public secrecy and memory of sexual violence in the Bangladesh war of 1971
This article explores the processes through which the 'public secrecy' of rape during the Bangladesh war of 1971 operates within the present-day ethnographic context. It examines contemporary commemorations of the war and of women who have achieved local and national fame as rape victims (euphemistically referred to as 'war heroines'). The article analyses the discrepancy between raped women's national position as icons of 'honour' and their loca…
The “Dead and Their Double Duties”: Mourning, Melancholia, and the Martyred Intellectual Memorials in Bangladesh
Memorialization of valor and losses through war memorials unquestioningly presume that material objects stand for and embody memory. In exploring this relationship, this article focuses on the evocation of mourning and melancholia in the annual commemorations at the site of two war memorials dedicated to the Martyred Intellectuals of the Bangladesh War of 1971. Following a discussion of the increased ethnographic reconceptualization of culture in…
Available Motherhood: Legal technologies, `state of exception' and the dekinning of `war-babies' in Bangladesh
This article takes an ethnographical approach to explore the `state of exception' through which legal technologies of abortion and adoption of `war-babies' (children born as a result of wartime rapes) in the Bangladesh war enabled the dekinning and elimination of certain childhoods while the raped women were rekinned within legitimate heterosexual motherhoods. The role of the law in guaranteeing an erasure of blood relations ensured the regulatio…
Culinary Boundaries and the Making of Place in Bangladesh
Food constitutes the central trope of place-making of Bangladesh in West Bengal, through various metaphors of excess and lack. South Asian ethnographies on food have focussed primarily on the cosmological and symbolic characteristics of ‘Hindu’ (read South Asian) food, which appear as bounded experiences. Rather than focusing on ‘Hindu’ or ‘South Asian’ food, this article explores the vegetarian/non-vegetarian culinary boundaries and permeations …
Gendered Embodiments: Mapping the Body-Politic of the Raped Woman and the Nation in Bangladesh
There has been much academic work outlining the complex links between women and the nation. Women provide legitimacy to the political projects of the nation in particular social and historical contexts. This article focuses on the gendered symbolization of the nation through the rhetoric of the 'motherland' and the manipulation of this rhetoric in the context of national struggle in Bangladesh. I show the ways in which the visual representation o…
The ethics of apology: Open meeting at the joint international conference of the ASA, the Asaanz and the AAS, Auckland, 9 December 2008
Debates on Ethical Practice: A Perspective from the Association of Social Anthropologists
The Ethics of Apology: A Set of Commentaries
■ On 13 February 2008, the Australian government apologized to the 'stolen generations': those children of Aboriginal descent who were removed from their parents (usually their Aboriginal mothers) to be raised in white foster-homes and institutions administered by government and Christian churches - a practice that lasted from before the First World War to the early 1970s. This apology was significant, in the words of Rudd, for the 'healing' of t…
Mobilising Images: Encounters of 'Forced' Migrants and the Bangladesh War of 1971
In trying to outline the relationship between mobilities and cosmopolitanism, the nation state is always posited by scholars against cosmopolitanism. Mobility of images however, instead of denationalising spaces in fact fortifies the stereotypes of different territories. The cosmopolitan outlook that is deemed to be inherent to critical mobilities can identify with these mobile images and ideas precisely because of what is already perceived about…
Never again: Aesthetics of 'genocidal' cosmopolitanism and the Bangladesh Liberation War Museum
This paper seeks to explore the affective aesthetics that are generated through the perceptions of 'genocidal' horrors in relation to accounts of sexual violence during wars, and to engagements with war memorials and museums commemorating such atrocities. In particular it focuses on the trope 'never again', which aptly captures the search for juridical and moral justice linked to events of conflict and violence in the twentieth and twenty-first c…
The aesthetics of nations: Anthropological and Historical Approaches
The nation, it is increasingly recognized, needs to be performed and materialized. The representation of national conflicts and contested pasts by governments and communities through various aesthetic artefacts and practices seeks to evoke and regulate multiple senses and feelings. But is a straightforwardly productive affect -feeling- always manifested? In this introduction, I reflect critically on some of the anthropological scholarship on nati…
Twenty-first Century Ethics for Audited Anthropologists
The absent piece of skin: Gendered, racialized and territorial inscriptions of sexual violence during the Bangladesh war
This paper addresses how the wombs of women and the absent skin on the circumcised penises of men become the predominant sites on which racialized and gendered discourses operating during the Bangladesh War are inscribed. This is explored by examining instances of sexual violence by Pakistani soldiers and their local Bengali collaborators. The prevalence of these discourses in colonial documents about the Bengali Muslims underscores the role of h…
Reproductive Heteronormativity and Sexual Violence in the Bangladesh War of 1971
In 1971, the formation of Bangladesh coincided with the death of a large number of civilians and the rape of many women. In stark contrast to the assumption of complete silence relating to war-time rape, the independent Bangladeshi government publicly designated that all women raped as a result of the war in 1971 were birangonas (war heroines). This effort remains internationally unprecedented and yet unknown to many apart from Bangladeshis. The …
Introduction: Self in South Asia
The so called western, rational, individual, autonomous, self marked by freedom, potential and choice and deemed essential for modernity has predominantly been juxtaposed with the presumed collective, static, bounded, "identity" of the "non-west" and its inhabitants. Anthropological scholarship has thus been marked by its focus on the "identity" of its subjects (drawn from a collective and shared with others) instead of a self. Nowhere has this t…
Aesthetics, politics, conflict
This special issue brings together an anthropologically
The raped woman as a horrific sublime and the Bangladesh war of 1971
This article examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics when invoking the imagery of war-time rape. It explores the prevalent way in which the raped woman of the Bangladesh war of 1971 is imagined in contemporary Bangladesh through the circulation of rumours, narratives of encounters and photographs. In 1971, faced with a large number of rape survivors after the war, the Bangladeshi government publicly designated any woman raped in…
Introduction to the Basas 2019 special section
This special section of Contemporary South Asia is dedicated to the papers presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS). The 2019 Conference wa
Firing cannons to kill mosquitoes: Controlling 'virtual streets' and the 'image of the state' in Bangladesh
This article examines the historical, social and political legacies of the Information and Communication Technology Act (ICT Act) (2006-2018, amended in 2013) and the Digital Security Act (DSA) (2018-) in the Bangladeshi state's attempt to control the 'virtual streets' of Bangladesh. The application of ICT and DSA has become an increasingly visible and controversial means to provide the spectacle of a state that extends disciplinary power and gov…
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: How Societies Recover after Collective Violence
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element…
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)
Comics and the recently emerged graphic novel format are among the art forms that researchers have chosen to disseminate and provide a visual representation of their work. This relationship between comics and research, which is part of a practice labelled as “arts-based research”, has been facilitated by comics’ recognised narrative and didactic abilities. Research on gender-based violence has not been deaf to the call of comics art, and, in some…
Medicine in Name Only: Mistrust and Covid-19 Among the Crowded Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh
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 Kutupalong camp has found non-cooperation among the residents regarding the health facilities on offer to them. This ethnography highlights the Rohingya refugees' active 'mistrust' (Carey 2017) of these medic…
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