Roy
Biographic Data
| ID | 22872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Roy |
| SIGNATURE | ROY |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4043-6285 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Transnational Feminism in Decolonial Times
This chapter argues that decolonial agendas and imperatives must be transnational. Transnational feminism has historically placed the nation, nationalisms, and national borders under question, while also revealing their imbrication in power at other scales. It resonates with widely circulating academic and activist sensibilities—postcolonial, intersectional, decolonial—in addressing histories of empire and global capitalism and how they shape pow…
The quiet revolution: Decolonial struggles and intersectional futures
In South Africa, the concept of intersectionality arrived at the high point of the student movement against the escalation of university fees and demands for decolonising the curriculum. Queer, transgender and Black feminist students used the concept to ensure that these new decolonial agendas did not lose sight of urgent issues of gender-based violence on university campuses, as well as within the ranks of the student movement itself. In other w…
Re-fashioning feminist subjects: Authors' Conversation
In this conversation with Samantha Pinto, Simidele Dosekun and Srila Roy trace the ways that gender and sexuality are both highly local and deeply transnational in the current landscape of neoliberalism. Dosekun's Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture looks to beauty industry and practices in Lagos to explore the tension between self-construction and media representation in a world of savvy consumption and comp…
Dissonant intimacies: Coloniality and the failures of South-South collaboration
North-South research collaborations have come to include both an epistemic and ethical promise - of disrupting hierarchies, inequalities and asymmetries in global knowledge production. In practice, however, these have been ridden with limits, tension and failure. The 'South-South' has emerged as a worthy foil: an easy repository of positive affects and of decolonial futurity. This article turns to a feminist collaborative research initiative that…
Trusting and thinking anew
This essay responds to the contributions to the forum centered on my book Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India. It addresses questions posed by the contributors, from the role of the state to the digital when it comes to a rapidly changing terrain of queer and feminist organizing in contemporary India. While the book rallied against defensiveness, in this commentary I revisit defensiveness as a queer feminist poli…
From Feminist Killjoy to Joyful Feminisms
Young urban Indian women have made women's rights to seek pleasure and have fun, especially in public, central to a new repertoire of feminist resistance and also as a way of demarcating themselves from “joyless” feminisms of the past. Concerns around pleasure, fun, and joy appear far removed from the everyday lives of poor and marginalized rural women. In this contribution, the author foregrounds rural women's pleasure-seeking practices, in cons…
Intimate Archives: Interventions on Gender, Sexuality and Intimacies
Across the Global North and South, there have been exciting engagements with the concept of the archive in recent decades. These debates are of both scholarly and political significance, especially when it comes to contemporary struggles for minority rights, belonging, and recognition. The overlapping fields of gender, sexuality, and queer studies have made major contributions to rethinking the archive - to raise new and important questions about…
Aparajita and Nishith Chetana: The city’s contested fabric
This article examines self-making projects and the desire for respectability within queer lives in Kolkata, across distinct class-caste affiliations. We argue the desire for queer respectability take virtual forms, sartorial fashioning, and yet remains a convoluted project mirroring Kolkata’s relationship with neoliberal capitalism. The authors engage with a young lesbian identified activist and a young male fashion designer whose sexual identity…
Precarity, aspiration and neoliberal development: Women empowerment workers in West Bengal
While there is a long tradition of interpellating poor rural women to carry out the state's development and modernising goals in local communities, neoliberal development has greatly expanded the remit of this subjective call but without accompanying material changes. In this article, I consider the precarious category of female workers produced by an NGO in West Bengal, out of a surplus population of poor, working-class and, generally, Scheduled…
Enacting/Disrupting the Will to Empower: Feminist Governance of “Child Marriage” in Eastern India
How is it that feminist strategies of empowerment and government can come to operate in a regulatory and coercive manner? While this question has been considered in light of the recent carceral turn involving feminist interventions into violence against women, it has not been explicated in the context of women’s economic empowerment. This is in spite of increased evidence of nonstate actors, including feminist NGOs, operating coercively toward th…
The positive side of co-optation? Intersectionality: A conversation between Inderpal Grewal and Srila Roy
If co-optation is a loss of feminism – about a feminist subject or strategy within a social movement that has moved to other movements and institutions not thought of as feminist – then we have to
Women’s Movements in the Global South: Towards a Scalar Analysis
Globalizing Sociology: An Introduction
Much of the work that has gone into the making of this special issue has taken place in the context of South Africa, where the nation's universities have been sites of turmoil and protest for more than a year now.The origins of the protests that culminated in the FeesMustFall movement that swept across many of the country's campuses can be traced to a campaign that erupted at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in March 2015.Led by a coalition of s…
A new normal: Women's experiences of biographical disruption and liminality following treatment for early stage breast cancer
The Indian Women’s Movement: Within and Beyond NGOization
The article documents some of the transformations to the women’s movement in India in the post-independence period. Given the empirical and ideological centrality of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) in the terrain of Indian feminism, the article focuses on dominant feminist responses to ‘NGOization’ in the form of critiques of the alleged cooption and professionalization of the women’s movement and the loss of political autonomy, a key ideal …
New Activist Subjects: The Changing Feminist Field of Kolkata, India
628 Feminist Studies 40, no. 3. © 2014 by Srila Roy Srila Roy New Activist Subjects: The Changing Feminist Field of Kolkata, India The nationwide protests in the wake of the brutal gang rape and murder of a twenty-three-year-old student in New Delhi in December 2012 have renewed debates about feminism in India.1 While the nearunprecedented display of public outrage was for some a welcome sign that feminism is alive and well in an Indian context, …
Neoliberalism, Postcolonialism and Hetero-Sovereignties: Emergent Sexual Formations in Contemporary India
Notes1 The Symposium on Gender and South Asia: New Directions, June 2008, featured papers by Yasmin Saika, Nayanika Mookherjee, Srila Roy, Parvati Raghuram, Sarah Hodges, and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley. The Symposium on Sexuality and South Asia: New Directions, March 2010, featured papers by Ashwini Tambe, Sanjay Srivastava, Stephen Legg, Svati Shah, Prabha Kotiswaran, Akhil Katyal, Paul Boyce and Gargi Bhattacharyya. Both events were generously spon…
Feminist 'Radicality' and 'Moderation' in Times of Crises and Change
The article considers different registers of moderation in contemporary discourses around feminism particularly in the context of postfeminism, neoliberalism and faith. It explores what work 'moderation', together with (but not reducible to) that of a 'moderate feminism', does in these distinct but not unrelated contexts. A distinction is made between moderation - as performance, process and practice -against various invocations of 'moderate femi…
Introduction: Paradoxes and possibilities
Politics, Passion and Professionalization in Contemporary Indian Feminism
The article locates itself in current criticisms of the 'NGOization' and professionalization of women's movements in India. It is concerned with the critique of the instrumentalization of feminism in its '9 to 5ization' together with the rise of a phenomenon that is disparagingly referred to, in generational terms, as the 'career feminist'. In considering two distinct forms of activism and organizational cultures, the article troubles the dichoto…
Violence and gender in the globalized world: The intimate and the extimate – Edited by Sanja Bahun‐Radunovic & V.G. Julie Rajan
Melancholic politics and the politics of melancholia: The Indian women’s movement
Mourning, especially melancholic mourning, has recently emerged as a significant site of expressing and addressing loss in feminism. While feminism's hard-won successes in achieving institutional power globally have brought exuberance over achievement, they have also come with an acute sense of despondency and loss; one that is not easily mourned or relinquished. The institutionalization of feminism in governmental, non-governmental and academic …
The Ethical Ambivalence of Resistant Violence: Notes from Postcolonial South Asia
In the face of mounting militarism in south Asia, this essay turns to anti-state, 'liberatory' movements in the region that employ violence to achieve their political aims. It explores some of the ethical quandaries that arise from the embrace of such violence, particularly for feminists for whom political violence and militarism is today a moot point. Feminist responses towards resistant political violence have, however, been less straightforwar…
The grey zone: The 'Ordinary' Violence of Extraordinary Times
The article analyses the 'ordinary' violence of revolutionary politics, particularly acts of gendered and sexual violence that tend to be neglected in the face of the 'extraordinariness' of political terror. Focusing on the extreme left Naxalbari movement of West Bengal, it points to those morally ambiguous 'grey zones' that confound the rigid distinctions between victim and victimizer in insurrectionary politics. Public and private recollections…
The Everyday Life of the Revolution: Gender, Violence and Memory
The ‘heroic life’ or the life of the revolutionary is one that resists or even seeks to transcend the everyday and the ordinary. The ‘banal’ vulnerabilities of everyday life, however, continue to constitute the unseen, often unspoken background of such a heroic life. This article turns to women's memories of everyday life spent ‘underground’ in the context of the late 1960s radical left Naxalbari movement of Bengal. Drawing upon recent published …
A new normal: Women's experiences of biographical disruption and liminality following treatment for early stage breast cancer
The Indian Women’s Movement: Within and Beyond NGOization
The article documents some of the transformations to the women’s movement in India in the post-independence period. Given the empirical and ideological centrality of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) in the terrain of Indian feminism, the article focuses on dominant feminist responses to ‘NGOization’ in the form of critiques of the alleged cooption and professionalization of the women’s movement and the loss of political autonomy, a key ideal …
The positive side of co-optation? Intersectionality: A conversation between Inderpal Grewal and Srila Roy
If co-optation is a loss of feminism – about a feminist subject or strategy within a social movement that has moved to other movements and institutions not thought of as feminist – then we have to
The grey zone: The 'Ordinary' Violence of Extraordinary Times
The article analyses the 'ordinary' violence of revolutionary politics, particularly acts of gendered and sexual violence that tend to be neglected in the face of the 'extraordinariness' of political terror. Focusing on the extreme left Naxalbari movement of West Bengal, it points to those morally ambiguous 'grey zones' that confound the rigid distinctions between victim and victimizer in insurrectionary politics. Public and private recollections…
Precarity, aspiration and neoliberal development: Women empowerment workers in West Bengal
While there is a long tradition of interpellating poor rural women to carry out the state's development and modernising goals in local communities, neoliberal development has greatly expanded the remit of this subjective call but without accompanying material changes. In this article, I consider the precarious category of female workers produced by an NGO in West Bengal, out of a surplus population of poor, working-class and, generally, Scheduled…
Women’s Movements in the Global South: Towards a Scalar Analysis
Politics, Passion and Professionalization in Contemporary Indian Feminism
The article locates itself in current criticisms of the 'NGOization' and professionalization of women's movements in India. It is concerned with the critique of the instrumentalization of feminism in its '9 to 5ization' together with the rise of a phenomenon that is disparagingly referred to, in generational terms, as the 'career feminist'. In considering two distinct forms of activism and organizational cultures, the article troubles the dichoto…
Revolutionary Marriage: On the Politics of Sexual Stories in Naxalbari
Marriage practices, the dynamics of interpersonal relationships and the politics of sexuality are relatively under-researched themes in the study of Bengali communism. Historical scholarship on the revolutionary politics of the extreme left Naxalbari andolan of the late 1960s-1970s, the object of this piece of study, is no exception. The article engages with women and men's narratives on the practice of 'revolutionary' marriage in the movement th…
The Everyday Life of the Revolution: Gender, Violence and Memory
The ‘heroic life’ or the life of the revolutionary is one that resists or even seeks to transcend the everyday and the ordinary. The ‘banal’ vulnerabilities of everyday life, however, continue to constitute the unseen, often unspoken background of such a heroic life. This article turns to women's memories of everyday life spent ‘underground’ in the context of the late 1960s radical left Naxalbari movement of Bengal. Drawing upon recent published …
Feminist 'Radicality' and 'Moderation' in Times of Crises and Change
The article considers different registers of moderation in contemporary discourses around feminism particularly in the context of postfeminism, neoliberalism and faith. It explores what work 'moderation', together with (but not reducible to) that of a 'moderate feminism', does in these distinct but not unrelated contexts. A distinction is made between moderation - as performance, process and practice -against various invocations of 'moderate femi…
Melancholic politics and the politics of melancholia: The Indian women’s movement
Mourning, especially melancholic mourning, has recently emerged as a significant site of expressing and addressing loss in feminism. While feminism's hard-won successes in achieving institutional power globally have brought exuberance over achievement, they have also come with an acute sense of despondency and loss; one that is not easily mourned or relinquished. The institutionalization of feminism in governmental, non-governmental and academic …
Globalizing Sociology: An Introduction
Much of the work that has gone into the making of this special issue has taken place in the context of South Africa, where the nation's universities have been sites of turmoil and protest for more than a year now.The origins of the protests that culminated in the FeesMustFall movement that swept across many of the country's campuses can be traced to a campaign that erupted at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in March 2015.Led by a coalition of s…
From Feminist Killjoy to Joyful Feminisms
Young urban Indian women have made women's rights to seek pleasure and have fun, especially in public, central to a new repertoire of feminist resistance and also as a way of demarcating themselves from “joyless” feminisms of the past. Concerns around pleasure, fun, and joy appear far removed from the everyday lives of poor and marginalized rural women. In this contribution, the author foregrounds rural women's pleasure-seeking practices, in cons…
New Activist Subjects: The Changing Feminist Field of Kolkata, India
628 Feminist Studies 40, no. 3. © 2014 by Srila Roy Srila Roy New Activist Subjects: The Changing Feminist Field of Kolkata, India The nationwide protests in the wake of the brutal gang rape and murder of a twenty-three-year-old student in New Delhi in December 2012 have renewed debates about feminism in India.1 While the nearunprecedented display of public outrage was for some a welcome sign that feminism is alive and well in an Indian context, …
Dissonant intimacies: Coloniality and the failures of South-South collaboration
North-South research collaborations have come to include both an epistemic and ethical promise - of disrupting hierarchies, inequalities and asymmetries in global knowledge production. In practice, however, these have been ridden with limits, tension and failure. The 'South-South' has emerged as a worthy foil: an easy repository of positive affects and of decolonial futurity. This article turns to a feminist collaborative research initiative that…
Intimate Archives: Interventions on Gender, Sexuality and Intimacies
Across the Global North and South, there have been exciting engagements with the concept of the archive in recent decades. These debates are of both scholarly and political significance, especially when it comes to contemporary struggles for minority rights, belonging, and recognition. The overlapping fields of gender, sexuality, and queer studies have made major contributions to rethinking the archive - to raise new and important questions about…
Trusting and thinking anew
This essay responds to the contributions to the forum centered on my book Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India. It addresses questions posed by the contributors, from the role of the state to the digital when it comes to a rapidly changing terrain of queer and feminist organizing in contemporary India. While the book rallied against defensiveness, in this commentary I revisit defensiveness as a queer feminist poli…
The Ethical Ambivalence of Resistant Violence: Notes from Postcolonial South Asia
In the face of mounting militarism in south Asia, this essay turns to anti-state, 'liberatory' movements in the region that employ violence to achieve their political aims. It explores some of the ethical quandaries that arise from the embrace of such violence, particularly for feminists for whom political violence and militarism is today a moot point. Feminist responses towards resistant political violence have, however, been less straightforwar…
The National Archives of India During 1947
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF INDIA DURING 1947 Get access S. Roy S. Roy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 23, Issue 68, November 1950, Pages 200–202, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1950.tb00335.x Published: 12 October 2007
Table des matières et index analytique du volume VII
On trouvera aprs chaque titre l'indication du numro, en chiffres arabes
Chronique de la recherche
4e COLLOQUE DES RELIGIONS POPULAIRES C'est Sherbrooke que se tiendra, le samedi 29 septembre prochain, le 4 e Colloque international sur les religions populaires. On sait que ce sminaire de travail regroupe chaque anne une trentaine de chercheurs intresss par l'tude scientifique du phnomne religieux populaire. Le Centre d'tudes des religions populaires (C.E.R.P.), sous l'gide de qui se tient le Colloque, profite galement du passage de spcialistes…
Revolutionary Marriage: On the Politics of Sexual Stories in Naxalbari
Marriage practices, the dynamics of interpersonal relationships and the politics of sexuality are relatively under-researched themes in the study of Bengali communism. Historical scholarship on the revolutionary politics of the extreme left Naxalbari andolan of the late 1960s-1970s, the object of this piece of study, is no exception. The article engages with women and men's narratives on the practice of 'revolutionary' marriage in the movement th…
The Everyday Life of the Revolution: Gender, Violence and Memory
The ‘heroic life’ or the life of the revolutionary is one that resists or even seeks to transcend the everyday and the ordinary. The ‘banal’ vulnerabilities of everyday life, however, continue to constitute the unseen, often unspoken background of such a heroic life. This article turns to women's memories of everyday life spent ‘underground’ in the context of the late 1960s radical left Naxalbari movement of Bengal. Drawing upon recent published …
Dietary influence on Type 2 Diabetes (NIDDM)
Incidence of diabetes particularly Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus is on the rise amongst the entire world population particularly in the residents belonging to younger age groups of developing countries located in Southeast Asia. The causes are many and predominated by nature-nurture role. Improper dietary intake of w-6 and w-3 fatty acids chasing the cholesterol myth of 70’s may be an important reason of increased diabetes in India. Cor…
Role of Resistant Starches Particularly Rice Containing Resistant Starches in Type 2 Diabetes
Non-insulin-dependent or type 2 diabetes mellitus is on the rise in India particularly in the affluent urban and rural population. The exact cause is unknown. Malnutrition, defective intake of essential fatty acids and reduced intake of fibres are found in Indian diet, particularly rural Indian diet and the dietary factors may be one of the causes leading to increased incidence of the disease. Dietary fibers reduce blood glucose and cholesterol l…
Benefits of Fats in Diet on Health of Patients Suffering from Type 2 Diabetes (NIDDM)
Fats, particularly saturated fats, are always considered to be health hazard due to its link with cholesterol level in blood, as evidenced by Framingham study. Raheja observed that in mid seventies of the past century Indians developed a strong belief that cholesterol in blood was the main offender leading to heart diseases latter on and changed the dietary patterns, particularly oil medium to poly unsaturated fatty acids rich oils like sunflower…
The grey zone: The 'Ordinary' Violence of Extraordinary Times
The article analyses the 'ordinary' violence of revolutionary politics, particularly acts of gendered and sexual violence that tend to be neglected in the face of the 'extraordinariness' of political terror. Focusing on the extreme left Naxalbari movement of West Bengal, it points to those morally ambiguous 'grey zones' that confound the rigid distinctions between victim and victimizer in insurrectionary politics. Public and private recollections…
Melancholic politics and the politics of melancholia: The Indian women’s movement
Mourning, especially melancholic mourning, has recently emerged as a significant site of expressing and addressing loss in feminism. While feminism's hard-won successes in achieving institutional power globally have brought exuberance over achievement, they have also come with an acute sense of despondency and loss; one that is not easily mourned or relinquished. The institutionalization of feminism in governmental, non-governmental and academic …
The Ethical Ambivalence of Resistant Violence: Notes from Postcolonial South Asia
In the face of mounting militarism in south Asia, this essay turns to anti-state, 'liberatory' movements in the region that employ violence to achieve their political aims. It explores some of the ethical quandaries that arise from the embrace of such violence, particularly for feminists for whom political violence and militarism is today a moot point. Feminist responses towards resistant political violence have, however, been less straightforwar…
Violence and gender in the globalized world: The intimate and the extimate – Edited by Sanja Bahun‐Radunovic & V.G. Julie Rajan
Politics, Passion and Professionalization in Contemporary Indian Feminism
The article locates itself in current criticisms of the 'NGOization' and professionalization of women's movements in India. It is concerned with the critique of the instrumentalization of feminism in its '9 to 5ization' together with the rise of a phenomenon that is disparagingly referred to, in generational terms, as the 'career feminist'. In considering two distinct forms of activism and organizational cultures, the article troubles the dichoto…
Introduction: Paradoxes and possibilities
Neoliberalism, Postcolonialism and Hetero-Sovereignties: Emergent Sexual Formations in Contemporary India
Notes1 The Symposium on Gender and South Asia: New Directions, June 2008, featured papers by Yasmin Saika, Nayanika Mookherjee, Srila Roy, Parvati Raghuram, Sarah Hodges, and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley. The Symposium on Sexuality and South Asia: New Directions, March 2010, featured papers by Ashwini Tambe, Sanjay Srivastava, Stephen Legg, Svati Shah, Prabha Kotiswaran, Akhil Katyal, Paul Boyce and Gargi Bhattacharyya. Both events were generously spon…
Feminist 'Radicality' and 'Moderation' in Times of Crises and Change
The article considers different registers of moderation in contemporary discourses around feminism particularly in the context of postfeminism, neoliberalism and faith. It explores what work 'moderation', together with (but not reducible to) that of a 'moderate feminism', does in these distinct but not unrelated contexts. A distinction is made between moderation - as performance, process and practice -against various invocations of 'moderate femi…
New Activist Subjects: The Changing Feminist Field of Kolkata, India
628 Feminist Studies 40, no. 3. © 2014 by Srila Roy Srila Roy New Activist Subjects: The Changing Feminist Field of Kolkata, India The nationwide protests in the wake of the brutal gang rape and murder of a twenty-three-year-old student in New Delhi in December 2012 have renewed debates about feminism in India.1 While the nearunprecedented display of public outrage was for some a welcome sign that feminism is alive and well in an Indian context, …
The Indian Women’s Movement: Within and Beyond NGOization
The article documents some of the transformations to the women’s movement in India in the post-independence period. Given the empirical and ideological centrality of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) in the terrain of Indian feminism, the article focuses on dominant feminist responses to ‘NGOization’ in the form of critiques of the alleged cooption and professionalization of the women’s movement and the loss of political autonomy, a key ideal …
Women’s Movements in the Global South: Towards a Scalar Analysis
Globalizing Sociology: An Introduction
Much of the work that has gone into the making of this special issue has taken place in the context of South Africa, where the nation's universities have been sites of turmoil and protest for more than a year now.The origins of the protests that culminated in the FeesMustFall movement that swept across many of the country's campuses can be traced to a campaign that erupted at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in March 2015.Led by a coalition of s…
A new normal: Women's experiences of biographical disruption and liminality following treatment for early stage breast cancer
Enacting/Disrupting the Will to Empower: Feminist Governance of “Child Marriage” in Eastern India
How is it that feminist strategies of empowerment and government can come to operate in a regulatory and coercive manner? While this question has been considered in light of the recent carceral turn involving feminist interventions into violence against women, it has not been explicated in the context of women’s economic empowerment. This is in spite of increased evidence of nonstate actors, including feminist NGOs, operating coercively toward th…
The positive side of co-optation? Intersectionality: A conversation between Inderpal Grewal and Srila Roy
If co-optation is a loss of feminism – about a feminist subject or strategy within a social movement that has moved to other movements and institutions not thought of as feminist – then we have to
Precarity, aspiration and neoliberal development: Women empowerment workers in West Bengal
While there is a long tradition of interpellating poor rural women to carry out the state's development and modernising goals in local communities, neoliberal development has greatly expanded the remit of this subjective call but without accompanying material changes. In this article, I consider the precarious category of female workers produced by an NGO in West Bengal, out of a surplus population of poor, working-class and, generally, Scheduled…
Aparajita and Nishith Chetana: The city’s contested fabric
This article examines self-making projects and the desire for respectability within queer lives in Kolkata, across distinct class-caste affiliations. We argue the desire for queer respectability take virtual forms, sartorial fashioning, and yet remains a convoluted project mirroring Kolkata’s relationship with neoliberal capitalism. The authors engage with a young lesbian identified activist and a young male fashion designer whose sexual identity…
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