Elora Halim Chowdhury
Biographic Data
| ID | 211775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elora Halim Chowdhury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elora Halim |
| FAMILY NAME | Chowdhury |
| SIGNATURE | CHOWDHURY E H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Critical approaches to climate-induced migration research and solutions
What Does Food Sustain? Family, Class, and Culture in South Asian Identity-Making
In this autoethnographic piece, I explore the intersections of food, memory, and community to shed light on a gendered social history of middle-class and Muslim South Asian identity. While stories of the everyday food habits and practices of ordinary people may seem banal, feminist food studies have convincingly argued that valuable insights can be gleaned from such accounts about social relations, power, and, in particular, diverse women’s agenc…
What Hungers Call Us Home? Engaging Autotheory Through Food
What Hungers Call Us Home? Engaging Autotheory Through Food Azza Basarudin (bio), Tina Beyene (bio), Elora Halim Chowdhury (bio), Sharmila Lodhia (bio), Catherine Z. Sameh (bio), and Khanum Shaikh (bio) introduction For decades, feminists have engaged food as an arena for both the reproduction of, and resistance to, patriarchal norms.1 While stories of the everyday food habits and practices may seem banal, feminist food studies scholars have conv…
Celebrating Fifty Years of Feminist Studies: Notes of Appreciation from Authors
"In celebration of fifty years since Feminist Studies began publishing, in 1972, we asked a selection of authors to convey what having their work published in Feminist Studies has meant for them, both professionally as well as personally. Following are their responses."
Ethical Reckoning
In this article the author builds on the idea of Bangladeshi national cinema as human rights cinema to explore its role in documenting and engendering understanding about women, vulnerability, and agency within a Muktijuddho gender ideology. Drawing from feminist sociologist Patricia Hill Collins's conceptualization of a Black gender ideology, the author proposes that in cinematic traditions, an idealized Muktijuddho gender ideology influences an…
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights is an edited collection which brings together analyses of human rights work from multiple disciplines. Within the academic sphere, this book will garner interest from scholars who are invested in human rights as a field of study, as well as those who research and are engaged in the praxis of human rights. Referring to the historical and cross-cultural study of human rights, the volume engages with disc…
Made in Bangladesh: The Romance of the New Woman
Refusing to Account: Toward a Pedagogy of Tectonic Instability
Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 333 Michelle V. Rowley, Elora Halim Chowdhury, and Isis Nusair Refusing to Account: Toward a Pedagogy of Tectonic Instability The increasing commoditization of knowledge and corporatization of the academy have led to a drastic restructuring of higher education , and in particular, of public institutions of learning. There is a striking similarity to the strategies enacted across institu…
Politicizing the site of fashion: Conversations with designing women in Dhaka
Fashion and consumption are culturally coded ways through which systems of class reinscribe and reproduce legitimacy by articulating, regulating and monitoring hierarchies of culture, class and consumption. Fashion and clothing are not only about presentation, they are also the means by which identities and power relations are produced and contested in local-translocal-global spaces. In this article based on ethnographic research, I discuss how f…
Muddying the waters: Coauthoring feminisms across scholarship and activism
This book forum extends a discussion that Laura Pulido first organized around Richa Nagar’s Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms Across Scholarship and Activism at the 2015 Annual Meeting of
When Love and Violence Meet: Women's Agency and Transformative Politics in Rubaiyat Hossain's Meherjaan
By contrast, the film Meherjaan (2011) revolves around the stories of four women during and after the war, and most centrally the relationship between a Bengali woman and a Pakistani soldier. In this article, I investigate the anxieties underlying the responses to Meherjaan , particularly in association with themes of trauma—its absence or omnipresence—to nonnormative gender frames of national sexuality, and the notion of loving the Other. Drawin…
Rethinking Patriarchy, Culture and Masculinity: Transnational Narratives of Gender Violence and Human Rights Advocacy
In this paper, I argue that to truly understand the complexity and “high prevalence” of acid violence against women in Bangladesh, we must pay attention to the confluence of political, economic and historical forces that make certain social groups more vulnerable to such extreme violence and suffering. By tracing the life history narratives of survivors of gender-based violence, I hope to shed light that acid throwing—a form of gendered violence—…
The Red and White Sari
The task loomed over her: to clean and sort her mother's belongings. She opened the steel almirah revealing two vertical columns of stacked saris. The heavier silks, banarasis, and tanchois, zardoz
Calling for a Chai Summit
Religion and Gender in the Developing World: Faith Based Organizations in India
Religion and Gender in the Developing World: Faith Based Organizations in India London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011, ISBN: 978-1848854277, 274 pp. In this important new book, Tamsin Bradley conv
Feminism and its ‘other’: Representing the ‘new woman’ of Bangladesh
This essay examines women's oppression and organizing against gender violence in contemporary Bangladesh through the lens of television. I argue that the telefilm Ayna (The Mirror, 2006), written and directed by popular film actor and women's rights activist Kabari Sarwar, offers a window into the changing social and economic landscape of contemporary Bangladesh and the complex negotiations of power and inequality across gender, class and communi…
Transnationalism reversed’: Engaging religion, development and women's organizing in Bangladesh
Locating Global Feminisms Elsewhere: Braiding US Women of Color and Transnational Feminisms
This article explores the trajectory of global feminism from the vantage point of the US, and its treatment of `Other Women' in the service of its own hegemonic (re)construction and simultaneous occlusion of multiple feminisms both within and beyond the US. It also offers reflections on locating global feminisms instead in `alternate' venues and avoiding reproducing the West as its predetermined default frame of reference. I am proposing to under…
Introduction-Engaging Islam: Feminisms, Religiosities and Self-Determinations
Negotiating State and NGO Politics in Bangladesh: Women Mobilize Against Acid Violence
This note showcases the story of Nurun Nahar, a survivor of acid violence in Bangladesh, to demonstrate that, despite protective measures, state, medical, and legal institutions continually fail to adequately respond to violence against women systematically and deny women rights to state protection, which are affirmatively embodied in law. The failure of state institutions to ensure appropriate care has been somewhat mitigated by nongovernmental …
Feminist Negotiations: Contesting Narratives of the Campaign against Acid Violence in Bangladesh
Acid attacks against women have been increasingly reported in Bangladesh since the early 1980s. Acid attacks involve the splashing of acid (car battery or sulfuric acid) on the face and/or body of victims. While initially such cases were reported sporadically, since the mid-1990s, partly because of improved media coverage, there has been a steady rise in the number of cases reported in newspapers. At present, NGOs and government reports put total…
Research, Representation and Responsibility: Unraveling the Sixteen Decisions Perspective on 'impoverished Bangladeshi Women
(2002). Research, Representation and Responsibility : Unraveling the Sixteen Decisions Perspective on 'impoverished Bangladeshi Women' International Feminist Journal of Politics: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 408-414
Muddying the waters: Coauthoring feminisms across scholarship and activism
This book forum extends a discussion that Laura Pulido first organized around Richa Nagar’s Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms Across Scholarship and Activism at the 2015 Annual Meeting of
Feminism and its ‘other’: Representing the ‘new woman’ of Bangladesh
This essay examines women's oppression and organizing against gender violence in contemporary Bangladesh through the lens of television. I argue that the telefilm Ayna (The Mirror, 2006), written and directed by popular film actor and women's rights activist Kabari Sarwar, offers a window into the changing social and economic landscape of contemporary Bangladesh and the complex negotiations of power and inequality across gender, class and communi…
Rethinking Patriarchy, Culture and Masculinity: Transnational Narratives of Gender Violence and Human Rights Advocacy
In this paper, I argue that to truly understand the complexity and “high prevalence” of acid violence against women in Bangladesh, we must pay attention to the confluence of political, economic and historical forces that make certain social groups more vulnerable to such extreme violence and suffering. By tracing the life history narratives of survivors of gender-based violence, I hope to shed light that acid throwing—a form of gendered violence—…
Locating Global Feminisms Elsewhere: Braiding US Women of Color and Transnational Feminisms
This article explores the trajectory of global feminism from the vantage point of the US, and its treatment of `Other Women' in the service of its own hegemonic (re)construction and simultaneous occlusion of multiple feminisms both within and beyond the US. It also offers reflections on locating global feminisms instead in `alternate' venues and avoiding reproducing the West as its predetermined default frame of reference. I am proposing to under…
Transnationalism reversed’: Engaging religion, development and women's organizing in Bangladesh
Introduction-Engaging Islam: Feminisms, Religiosities and Self-Determinations
Feminist Negotiations: Contesting Narratives of the Campaign against Acid Violence in Bangladesh
Acid attacks against women have been increasingly reported in Bangladesh since the early 1980s. Acid attacks involve the splashing of acid (car battery or sulfuric acid) on the face and/or body of victims. While initially such cases were reported sporadically, since the mid-1990s, partly because of improved media coverage, there has been a steady rise in the number of cases reported in newspapers. At present, NGOs and government reports put total…
Research, Representation and Responsibility: Unraveling the Sixteen Decisions Perspective on 'impoverished Bangladeshi Women
(2002). Research, Representation and Responsibility : Unraveling the Sixteen Decisions Perspective on 'impoverished Bangladeshi Women' International Feminist Journal of Politics: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 408-414
Feminist Negotiations: Contesting Narratives of the Campaign against Acid Violence in Bangladesh
Acid attacks against women have been increasingly reported in Bangladesh since the early 1980s. Acid attacks involve the splashing of acid (car battery or sulfuric acid) on the face and/or body of victims. While initially such cases were reported sporadically, since the mid-1990s, partly because of improved media coverage, there has been a steady rise in the number of cases reported in newspapers. At present, NGOs and government reports put total…
Negotiating State and NGO Politics in Bangladesh: Women Mobilize Against Acid Violence
This note showcases the story of Nurun Nahar, a survivor of acid violence in Bangladesh, to demonstrate that, despite protective measures, state, medical, and legal institutions continually fail to adequately respond to violence against women systematically and deny women rights to state protection, which are affirmatively embodied in law. The failure of state institutions to ensure appropriate care has been somewhat mitigated by nongovernmental …
Introduction-Engaging Islam: Feminisms, Religiosities and Self-Determinations
Transnationalism reversed’: Engaging religion, development and women's organizing in Bangladesh
Locating Global Feminisms Elsewhere: Braiding US Women of Color and Transnational Feminisms
This article explores the trajectory of global feminism from the vantage point of the US, and its treatment of `Other Women' in the service of its own hegemonic (re)construction and simultaneous occlusion of multiple feminisms both within and beyond the US. It also offers reflections on locating global feminisms instead in `alternate' venues and avoiding reproducing the West as its predetermined default frame of reference. I am proposing to under…
Feminism and its ‘other’: Representing the ‘new woman’ of Bangladesh
This essay examines women's oppression and organizing against gender violence in contemporary Bangladesh through the lens of television. I argue that the telefilm Ayna (The Mirror, 2006), written and directed by popular film actor and women's rights activist Kabari Sarwar, offers a window into the changing social and economic landscape of contemporary Bangladesh and the complex negotiations of power and inequality across gender, class and communi…
Religion and Gender in the Developing World: Faith Based Organizations in India
Religion and Gender in the Developing World: Faith Based Organizations in India London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011, ISBN: 978-1848854277, 274 pp. In this important new book, Tamsin Bradley conv
Calling for a Chai Summit
The Red and White Sari
The task loomed over her: to clean and sort her mother's belongings. She opened the steel almirah revealing two vertical columns of stacked saris. The heavier silks, banarasis, and tanchois, zardoz
Rethinking Patriarchy, Culture and Masculinity: Transnational Narratives of Gender Violence and Human Rights Advocacy
In this paper, I argue that to truly understand the complexity and “high prevalence” of acid violence against women in Bangladesh, we must pay attention to the confluence of political, economic and historical forces that make certain social groups more vulnerable to such extreme violence and suffering. By tracing the life history narratives of survivors of gender-based violence, I hope to shed light that acid throwing—a form of gendered violence—…
When Love and Violence Meet: Women's Agency and Transformative Politics in Rubaiyat Hossain's Meherjaan
By contrast, the film Meherjaan (2011) revolves around the stories of four women during and after the war, and most centrally the relationship between a Bengali woman and a Pakistani soldier. In this article, I investigate the anxieties underlying the responses to Meherjaan , particularly in association with themes of trauma—its absence or omnipresence—to nonnormative gender frames of national sexuality, and the notion of loving the Other. Drawin…
Muddying the waters: Coauthoring feminisms across scholarship and activism
This book forum extends a discussion that Laura Pulido first organized around Richa Nagar’s Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms Across Scholarship and Activism at the 2015 Annual Meeting of
Politicizing the site of fashion: Conversations with designing women in Dhaka
Fashion and consumption are culturally coded ways through which systems of class reinscribe and reproduce legitimacy by articulating, regulating and monitoring hierarchies of culture, class and consumption. Fashion and clothing are not only about presentation, they are also the means by which identities and power relations are produced and contested in local-translocal-global spaces. In this article based on ethnographic research, I discuss how f…
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights is an edited collection which brings together analyses of human rights work from multiple disciplines. Within the academic sphere, this book will garner interest from scholars who are invested in human rights as a field of study, as well as those who research and are engaged in the praxis of human rights. Referring to the historical and cross-cultural study of human rights, the volume engages with disc…
Made in Bangladesh: The Romance of the New Woman
Refusing to Account: Toward a Pedagogy of Tectonic Instability
Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 333 Michelle V. Rowley, Elora Halim Chowdhury, and Isis Nusair Refusing to Account: Toward a Pedagogy of Tectonic Instability The increasing commoditization of knowledge and corporatization of the academy have led to a drastic restructuring of higher education , and in particular, of public institutions of learning. There is a striking similarity to the strategies enacted across institu…
Ethical Reckoning
In this article the author builds on the idea of Bangladeshi national cinema as human rights cinema to explore its role in documenting and engendering understanding about women, vulnerability, and agency within a Muktijuddho gender ideology. Drawing from feminist sociologist Patricia Hill Collins's conceptualization of a Black gender ideology, the author proposes that in cinematic traditions, an idealized Muktijuddho gender ideology influences an…
Celebrating Fifty Years of Feminist Studies: Notes of Appreciation from Authors
"In celebration of fifty years since Feminist Studies began publishing, in 1972, we asked a selection of authors to convey what having their work published in Feminist Studies has meant for them, both professionally as well as personally. Following are their responses."
What Does Food Sustain? Family, Class, and Culture in South Asian Identity-Making
In this autoethnographic piece, I explore the intersections of food, memory, and community to shed light on a gendered social history of middle-class and Muslim South Asian identity. While stories of the everyday food habits and practices of ordinary people may seem banal, feminist food studies have convincingly argued that valuable insights can be gleaned from such accounts about social relations, power, and, in particular, diverse women’s agenc…
What Hungers Call Us Home? Engaging Autotheory Through Food
What Hungers Call Us Home? Engaging Autotheory Through Food Azza Basarudin (bio), Tina Beyene (bio), Elora Halim Chowdhury (bio), Sharmila Lodhia (bio), Catherine Z. Sameh (bio), and Khanum Shaikh (bio) introduction For decades, feminists have engaged food as an arena for both the reproduction of, and resistance to, patriarchal norms.1 While stories of the everyday food habits and practices may seem banal, feminist food studies scholars have conv…
Critical approaches to climate-induced migration research and solutions
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Art (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Feminism (6 works) · Social science (5 works)