Rubina Jasani
Biographic Data
| ID | 193361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rubina Jasani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rubina |
| FAMILY NAME | Jasani |
| SIGNATURE | JASANI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8814-5268 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Urban Hopes, Sexual Horrors
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…
Violence, Urban Anxieties and Masculinities: The ‘Foot Soldiers’ of 2002, Ahmedabad
This paper engages with retrospective accounts of young Dalit men and their participation in the communal conflict of 2002 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. My ethnographic landscape is Gomtipur, a densely populated mixed (Dalit and Muslim) suburban neighbourhood that developed in the 1960s and 1970s to house the migrant mill workers who had moved into the city from other parts of Gujarat and India more widely. The de-industrialisation process of the 1980s …
South Asian women elders and everyday lives of ‘care in the community’ in Britain: The neoliberal turn in social care and the myth of the family
This article focuses upon the myth of the South Asian family as a self-fulfilling unit in which a construction of ‘looking after their own’ in the diaspora is perpetuated which intrinsically assumes how care and caring are organised at home. The Care in the Community agenda in Britain, which comes out of the contemporary neoliberal paradigm of austerity in which social welfare services have been dramatically cut and reformulated, utilises this im…
Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India
Journal Article Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India Get access Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India. By Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. 335 pp. $29.95 paper. Rubina Jasani Rubina Jasani 1University of ManchesterManchester, England *[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Islamic Reform in South Asia
The articles in this volume build up ethnographic analysis complementary to the historiography of South Asian Islam, which has explored the emergence of reformism in the context of specific political and religious circumstances of nineteenth-century British India. Taking up diverse popular and scholarly debates as well as everyday religious practices, this volume also breaks away from the dominant trend of mainstream ethnographic work, which cele…
A game of hide and seek: Gendered ethnographies of the everyday state after communal violence in Ahmedabad, Western India
This paper analyses the gendered experience of the state for the Muslim survivors of violence in Gujarat in 2002. Most of the scholarship on the working of the state after communal violence in post-independence India concentrates on the anxiety to re-instate the 'myth of the state', through policies that establish its respectability after violence. The emphasis is on understanding the mechanics of the state, its 'order making' function. Very litt…
Violence, Reconstruction and Islamic Reform-Stories from the Muslim 'Ghetto
This paper is a critique of popular and academic assumptions about the Muslim 'community' and Islamist organizations, especially in the context of displacement and reconstruction after the 2002 riots in Ahmedabad, western India. It explores the internal politics of Jamaat-led organizations and the engagement of survivors with ideas of reform and piety. Contesting contemporary understandings of reformist Jamaats, I argue that the growing influence…
Violence, Reconstruction and Islamic Reform-Stories from the Muslim 'Ghetto
This paper is a critique of popular and academic assumptions about the Muslim 'community' and Islamist organizations, especially in the context of displacement and reconstruction after the 2002 riots in Ahmedabad, western India. It explores the internal politics of Jamaat-led organizations and the engagement of survivors with ideas of reform and piety. Contesting contemporary understandings of reformist Jamaats, I argue that the growing influence…
A game of hide and seek: Gendered ethnographies of the everyday state after communal violence in Ahmedabad, Western India
This paper analyses the gendered experience of the state for the Muslim survivors of violence in Gujarat in 2002. Most of the scholarship on the working of the state after communal violence in post-independence India concentrates on the anxiety to re-instate the 'myth of the state', through policies that establish its respectability after violence. The emphasis is on understanding the mechanics of the state, its 'order making' function. Very litt…
Urban Hopes, Sexual Horrors
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…
Violence, Reconstruction and Islamic Reform-Stories from the Muslim 'Ghetto
This paper is a critique of popular and academic assumptions about the Muslim 'community' and Islamist organizations, especially in the context of displacement and reconstruction after the 2002 riots in Ahmedabad, western India. It explores the internal politics of Jamaat-led organizations and the engagement of survivors with ideas of reform and piety. Contesting contemporary understandings of reformist Jamaats, I argue that the growing influence…
A game of hide and seek: Gendered ethnographies of the everyday state after communal violence in Ahmedabad, Western India
This paper analyses the gendered experience of the state for the Muslim survivors of violence in Gujarat in 2002. Most of the scholarship on the working of the state after communal violence in post-independence India concentrates on the anxiety to re-instate the 'myth of the state', through policies that establish its respectability after violence. The emphasis is on understanding the mechanics of the state, its 'order making' function. Very litt…
Islamic Reform in South Asia
The articles in this volume build up ethnographic analysis complementary to the historiography of South Asian Islam, which has explored the emergence of reformism in the context of specific political and religious circumstances of nineteenth-century British India. Taking up diverse popular and scholarly debates as well as everyday religious practices, this volume also breaks away from the dominant trend of mainstream ethnographic work, which cele…
Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India
Journal Article Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India Get access Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India. By Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. 335 pp. $29.95 paper. Rubina Jasani Rubina Jasani 1University of ManchesterManchester, England *[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
South Asian women elders and everyday lives of ‘care in the community’ in Britain: The neoliberal turn in social care and the myth of the family
This article focuses upon the myth of the South Asian family as a self-fulfilling unit in which a construction of ‘looking after their own’ in the diaspora is perpetuated which intrinsically assumes how care and caring are organised at home. The Care in the Community agenda in Britain, which comes out of the contemporary neoliberal paradigm of austerity in which social welfare services have been dramatically cut and reformulated, utilises this im…
Violence, Urban Anxieties and Masculinities: The ‘Foot Soldiers’ of 2002, Ahmedabad
This paper engages with retrospective accounts of young Dalit men and their participation in the communal conflict of 2002 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. My ethnographic landscape is Gomtipur, a densely populated mixed (Dalit and Muslim) suburban neighbourhood that developed in the 1960s and 1970s to house the migrant mill workers who had moved into the city from other parts of Gujarat and India more widely. The de-industrialisation process of the 1980s …
Urban Hopes, Sexual Horrors
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…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works)