Mahua Sarkar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahua Sarkar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahua |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarkar |
| SIGNATURE | SARKAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Negotiating Modernity: The Social Production of Muslim-ness in Late Colonial Bengal
Why Does the West Need to Save Muslim Women
"The Unbearable Whiteness of the Polish Plumber and the Hungarian Peacock Dance around "Race
This contribution interprets the east-central European post-liberal governments' recent anti-immigrant, anti-refugee and anti-human-rights hysteria in the context of the increasing dependence of the region's societies for livelihood on employment in the western EU, the widespread racialization of east European labor in the western EU, and the refusal of east European political elites and societies at large to consider possible "Left" critiques of…
Constrained Labour as Instituted Process: Transnational Contract Work and Circular Migration in Late Capitalism
The paper proposes a critical understanding of contemporary "low-skilled," transnational contract work/circular migration as a guest-worker regime. Rather than approach circular migration as an instrument of development, or a human rights problem, this paper situates it within the larger, historical debates over the status of labour that emphasise questions of surplus extraction. Drawing on ethnographic research among Bangladeshi male migrants in…
Muslims in Motion: Islam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi Diaspora
Between Craft and Method: Meaning and Inter-subjectivity in Oral History Analysis
This paper has three overarching aims: to contextualise oral history within larger debates over methods in the social sciences; to highlight the peculiar strengths as well as complexities of oral history as a method; and finally to elucidate some of these methodological issues through insights drawn from analysis of oral histories of two elderly Bengali Muslim women
Women in the Indian National Movement: Unseen Faces and Unheard Voices, 1930–42
Visible Histories, Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal
Difference This book studies the production of Muslim women as invisible and oppressed/backward in the written history of late colonial Bengal.Unlike in projects of recuperation, the intent here is not to correct the problem of invisibility/silence of Muslim women by recovering them as visible/vocal subjects within the familiar terms of conventional history-a history that denied them such presence in the first place.Instead, my focus is on under…
Difference in Memory
The study of popular memory is necessarily relational. It involves the exploration of two sets of relations: (1) that between dominant memory and oppositional forms across the public field, including academic productions; and (2) the relation between public discourse and a more privatized sense of the past generated within lived culture.2 This paper is concerned with the second of these two constitutive relations in the study of popular memory-th…
What Is the EU
This interpretive article relies on insights from three critical literatures -world-systems analysis, postcolonial studies and, to the extent of an extended simile, the economic sociology of flexible global production -to propose a geo-political understanding of what the European Union (EU) is. The authors begin by interrogating the tendency within much of the current research and commentary on the EU to treat it as a state of sorts. They then ou…
Looking for Feminism
This paper explores the linkages between metropolitan intellectual politics and the process of knowledge production within third‐world/anti‐imperial locations – defined geographically or otherwise – about previously understudied subjects from or in the third world. Specifically, the paper focuses on the growing body of research on Muslim women in colonial India to foreground ways in which a certain notion of feminism, as a metanarrative of emerge…
The Emergence of Feminism Among Indian Muslim Women, 1920-1947 (review)
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 3, Winter 2001
Tradition and Liberation: The Hindu tradition in the Indian women's movement
Muslim Women and the Politics of (In)visibility in Late Colonial Bengal
The paper attempts to understand ways in which gender and racially defined communal ideologies worked simultaneously to produce Muslim women in colonial Bengal as invisible within nationalist historiography. It argues that the negative representations of Muslim women underpinned the construction of other identity categories in colonial Bengal, and highlights the participation of Hindu/Brahmo women writers in this process
"The Unbearable Whiteness of the Polish Plumber and the Hungarian Peacock Dance around "Race
This contribution interprets the east-central European post-liberal governments' recent anti-immigrant, anti-refugee and anti-human-rights hysteria in the context of the increasing dependence of the region's societies for livelihood on employment in the western EU, the widespread racialization of east European labor in the western EU, and the refusal of east European political elites and societies at large to consider possible "Left" critiques of…
Visible Histories, Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal
Difference This book studies the production of Muslim women as invisible and oppressed/backward in the written history of late colonial Bengal.Unlike in projects of recuperation, the intent here is not to correct the problem of invisibility/silence of Muslim women by recovering them as visible/vocal subjects within the familiar terms of conventional history-a history that denied them such presence in the first place.Instead, my focus is on under…
Constrained Labour as Instituted Process: Transnational Contract Work and Circular Migration in Late Capitalism
The paper proposes a critical understanding of contemporary "low-skilled," transnational contract work/circular migration as a guest-worker regime. Rather than approach circular migration as an instrument of development, or a human rights problem, this paper situates it within the larger, historical debates over the status of labour that emphasise questions of surplus extraction. Drawing on ethnographic research among Bangladeshi male migrants in…
Muslim Women and the Politics of (In)visibility in Late Colonial Bengal
The paper attempts to understand ways in which gender and racially defined communal ideologies worked simultaneously to produce Muslim women in colonial Bengal as invisible within nationalist historiography. It argues that the negative representations of Muslim women underpinned the construction of other identity categories in colonial Bengal, and highlights the participation of Hindu/Brahmo women writers in this process
What Is the EU
This interpretive article relies on insights from three critical literatures -world-systems analysis, postcolonial studies and, to the extent of an extended simile, the economic sociology of flexible global production -to propose a geo-political understanding of what the European Union (EU) is. The authors begin by interrogating the tendency within much of the current research and commentary on the EU to treat it as a state of sorts. They then ou…
Between Craft and Method: Meaning and Inter-subjectivity in Oral History Analysis
This paper has three overarching aims: to contextualise oral history within larger debates over methods in the social sciences; to highlight the peculiar strengths as well as complexities of oral history as a method; and finally to elucidate some of these methodological issues through insights drawn from analysis of oral histories of two elderly Bengali Muslim women
Looking for Feminism
This paper explores the linkages between metropolitan intellectual politics and the process of knowledge production within third‐world/anti‐imperial locations – defined geographically or otherwise – about previously understudied subjects from or in the third world. Specifically, the paper focuses on the growing body of research on Muslim women in colonial India to foreground ways in which a certain notion of feminism, as a metanarrative of emerge…
Why Does the West Need to Save Muslim Women
Difference in Memory
The study of popular memory is necessarily relational. It involves the exploration of two sets of relations: (1) that between dominant memory and oppositional forms across the public field, including academic productions; and (2) the relation between public discourse and a more privatized sense of the past generated within lived culture.2 This paper is concerned with the second of these two constitutive relations in the study of popular memory-th…
The Emergence of Feminism Among Indian Muslim Women, 1920-1947 (review)
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 3, Winter 2001
Tradition and Liberation: The Hindu tradition in the Indian women's movement
Muslim Women and the Politics of (In)visibility in Late Colonial Bengal
The paper attempts to understand ways in which gender and racially defined communal ideologies worked simultaneously to produce Muslim women in colonial Bengal as invisible within nationalist historiography. It argues that the negative representations of Muslim women underpinned the construction of other identity categories in colonial Bengal, and highlights the participation of Hindu/Brahmo women writers in this process
Looking for Feminism
This paper explores the linkages between metropolitan intellectual politics and the process of knowledge production within third‐world/anti‐imperial locations – defined geographically or otherwise – about previously understudied subjects from or in the third world. Specifically, the paper focuses on the growing body of research on Muslim women in colonial India to foreground ways in which a certain notion of feminism, as a metanarrative of emerge…
What Is the EU
This interpretive article relies on insights from three critical literatures -world-systems analysis, postcolonial studies and, to the extent of an extended simile, the economic sociology of flexible global production -to propose a geo-political understanding of what the European Union (EU) is. The authors begin by interrogating the tendency within much of the current research and commentary on the EU to treat it as a state of sorts. They then ou…
Difference in Memory
The study of popular memory is necessarily relational. It involves the exploration of two sets of relations: (1) that between dominant memory and oppositional forms across the public field, including academic productions; and (2) the relation between public discourse and a more privatized sense of the past generated within lived culture.2 This paper is concerned with the second of these two constitutive relations in the study of popular memory-th…
Visible Histories, Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal
Difference This book studies the production of Muslim women as invisible and oppressed/backward in the written history of late colonial Bengal.Unlike in projects of recuperation, the intent here is not to correct the problem of invisibility/silence of Muslim women by recovering them as visible/vocal subjects within the familiar terms of conventional history-a history that denied them such presence in the first place.Instead, my focus is on under…
Women in the Indian National Movement: Unseen Faces and Unheard Voices, 1930–42
Between Craft and Method: Meaning and Inter-subjectivity in Oral History Analysis
This paper has three overarching aims: to contextualise oral history within larger debates over methods in the social sciences; to highlight the peculiar strengths as well as complexities of oral history as a method; and finally to elucidate some of these methodological issues through insights drawn from analysis of oral histories of two elderly Bengali Muslim women
Muslims in Motion: Islam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi Diaspora
Why Does the West Need to Save Muslim Women
"The Unbearable Whiteness of the Polish Plumber and the Hungarian Peacock Dance around "Race
This contribution interprets the east-central European post-liberal governments' recent anti-immigrant, anti-refugee and anti-human-rights hysteria in the context of the increasing dependence of the region's societies for livelihood on employment in the western EU, the widespread racialization of east European labor in the western EU, and the refusal of east European political elites and societies at large to consider possible "Left" critiques of…
Constrained Labour as Instituted Process: Transnational Contract Work and Circular Migration in Late Capitalism
The paper proposes a critical understanding of contemporary "low-skilled," transnational contract work/circular migration as a guest-worker regime. Rather than approach circular migration as an instrument of development, or a human rights problem, this paper situates it within the larger, historical debates over the status of labour that emphasise questions of surplus extraction. Drawing on ethnographic research among Bangladeshi male migrants in…
Negotiating Modernity: The Social Production of Muslim-ness in Late Colonial Bengal
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · History (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · History (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works)