Akanksha Mehta
Biographic Data
| ID | 131685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akanksha Mehta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akanksha |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehta |
| SIGNATURE | MEHTA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8226-7793 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Feminist killjoy survival and solidarities against institutional violence
This is an edited excerpt of a conversation between feminist scholars Sara Ahmed and Akanksha Mehta that took place on 8 March 2024 (International Women’s Day) at The Feminist Library in Peckham, South East London, UK. The gathering marked the release of the paperback version of Sara’s book The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, and was a space for building feminist queer solidarities. This conversation addresses themes of institutional violence in unive…
Behind the scenes at a London university strike
The Intimacy of Occupation
In March 2019, a group of Black and POC students at Goldsmiths College, University of London, occupied a key administrative and historically symbolic building on campus to protest institutional racism. Calling themselves Goldsmiths Anti-racism Action (GARA), the occupiers wrote a 12-point manifesto that detailed what the institution had to do to change its exclusionary white institutional culture, labor practices, curriculum, and pedagogy. This p…
Masculinity and militancy
The aesthetics of “everyday” violence
“Right-wing” movements see significant participation by women who espouse their exclusionary and violent politics while at the same time often contest their patriarchal spaces. Women also serve as discursive and symbolic markers that regularly form the basis of the rhetoric, ideology, actions and policies of the right-wing. However, even as women’s roles and politics within the right-wing remain diverse and important, dominant feminist scholarshi…
The aesthetics of “everyday” violence
“Right-wing” movements see significant participation by women who espouse their exclusionary and violent politics while at the same time often contest their patriarchal spaces. Women also serve as discursive and symbolic markers that regularly form the basis of the rhetoric, ideology, actions and policies of the right-wing. However, even as women’s roles and politics within the right-wing remain diverse and important, dominant feminist scholarshi…
The Intimacy of Occupation
In March 2019, a group of Black and POC students at Goldsmiths College, University of London, occupied a key administrative and historically symbolic building on campus to protest institutional racism. Calling themselves Goldsmiths Anti-racism Action (GARA), the occupiers wrote a 12-point manifesto that detailed what the institution had to do to change its exclusionary white institutional culture, labor practices, curriculum, and pedagogy. This p…
The aesthetics of “everyday” violence
“Right-wing” movements see significant participation by women who espouse their exclusionary and violent politics while at the same time often contest their patriarchal spaces. Women also serve as discursive and symbolic markers that regularly form the basis of the rhetoric, ideology, actions and policies of the right-wing. However, even as women’s roles and politics within the right-wing remain diverse and important, dominant feminist scholarshi…
Masculinity and militancy
The Intimacy of Occupation
In March 2019, a group of Black and POC students at Goldsmiths College, University of London, occupied a key administrative and historically symbolic building on campus to protest institutional racism. Calling themselves Goldsmiths Anti-racism Action (GARA), the occupiers wrote a 12-point manifesto that detailed what the institution had to do to change its exclusionary white institutional culture, labor practices, curriculum, and pedagogy. This p…
Behind the scenes at a London university strike
Feminist killjoy survival and solidarities against institutional violence
This is an edited excerpt of a conversation between feminist scholars Sara Ahmed and Akanksha Mehta that took place on 8 March 2024 (International Women’s Day) at The Feminist Library in Peckham, South East London, UK. The gathering marked the release of the paperback version of Sara’s book The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, and was a space for building feminist queer solidarities. This conversation addresses themes of institutional violence in unive…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)