Maitrayee Basu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4895809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maitrayee Basu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maitrayee |
| FAMILY NAME | Basu |
| SIGNATURE | BASU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8787-8312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Section Editor Introduction
The contributors to this section responded to a provocation to think about the potential for the genre of personal commentary to respond to as well as critically push back against the institutional...
Digital activisms and intersectionality in context
Editorial Special Issue: Digital Activisms and Intersectionality in Context
A feminist critique of cybersecurity
In this collection of five short essays, each authors examine how online spaces produce and reproduce queer marginalisation while also offering opportunities for queer expression, connection, and resistance. Tanvi Kanchan examines Indian queer activists’ connections with Indigenous and Black politics in the U.S. and anti-gender rhetoric that travels between American conservative contexts and Indian Hindutva contexts to highlight how digitally med…
Beyond Bame, WOC, and ‘political blackness’”
What forms of opacity and excess propel Black and South Asian digital diasporic feminist cultures of commoning and communing? This article explores digital expressions of retreat, refusal, remixing, and reclamation which are central to diasporic feminist practices. We analyze three illustrative digital practices via two vignettes: (1) Quote tweets and digital anonymity as expressions of subaltern excess; (2) diasporic meme culture as a callout pr…
Gendered Indian Digital Publics Along Matrices of Domination/Oppression
Reflections
Kisi Ke Baap Ka Hindustan Thodi Hai
The oppositional protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill burst into international consciousness mainly mediated by urgent digital publics on platforms like Twitter on December 12 2019 following police brutality within two historically Muslim university campuses in North India. As campuses throughout the country, along with other public gatherings organised local protests in solidarity with students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Musl…
Chudi (Bangles), Bindi, Aur Hijab Will Bring Along Inquilab (Revolution)
This paper looks at discursive interventions online and protests against political and social injustices against women in India within wider protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (December 2019 - present). In attempting to classify some modes of publicness on digital media platforms that are prevalent amongst women resisting the oppressions of living under an authoritarian regime that overlaps with patriarchal structures, this paper expl…
Beyond Bame, WOC, and ‘political blackness’”
What forms of opacity and excess propel Black and South Asian digital diasporic feminist cultures of commoning and communing? This article explores digital expressions of retreat, refusal, remixing, and reclamation which are central to diasporic feminist practices. We analyze three illustrative digital practices via two vignettes: (1) Quote tweets and digital anonymity as expressions of subaltern excess; (2) diasporic meme culture as a callout pr…
Kisi Ke Baap Ka Hindustan Thodi Hai
The oppositional protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill burst into international consciousness mainly mediated by urgent digital publics on platforms like Twitter on December 12 2019 following police brutality within two historically Muslim university campuses in North India. As campuses throughout the country, along with other public gatherings organised local protests in solidarity with students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Musl…
Gendered Indian Digital Publics Along Matrices of Domination/Oppression
Chudi (Bangles), Bindi, Aur Hijab Will Bring Along Inquilab (Revolution)
This paper looks at discursive interventions online and protests against political and social injustices against women in India within wider protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (December 2019 - present). In attempting to classify some modes of publicness on digital media platforms that are prevalent amongst women resisting the oppressions of living under an authoritarian regime that overlaps with patriarchal structures, this paper expl…
Kisi Ke Baap Ka Hindustan Thodi Hai
The oppositional protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill burst into international consciousness mainly mediated by urgent digital publics on platforms like Twitter on December 12 2019 following police brutality within two historically Muslim university campuses in North India. As campuses throughout the country, along with other public gatherings organised local protests in solidarity with students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Musl…
Gendered Indian Digital Publics Along Matrices of Domination/Oppression
Reflections
Beyond Bame, WOC, and ‘political blackness’”
What forms of opacity and excess propel Black and South Asian digital diasporic feminist cultures of commoning and communing? This article explores digital expressions of retreat, refusal, remixing, and reclamation which are central to diasporic feminist practices. We analyze three illustrative digital practices via two vignettes: (1) Quote tweets and digital anonymity as expressions of subaltern excess; (2) diasporic meme culture as a callout pr…
Section Editor Introduction
The contributors to this section responded to a provocation to think about the potential for the genre of personal commentary to respond to as well as critically push back against the institutional...
Digital activisms and intersectionality in context
Editorial Special Issue: Digital Activisms and Intersectionality in Context
A feminist critique of cybersecurity
In this collection of five short essays, each authors examine how online spaces produce and reproduce queer marginalisation while also offering opportunities for queer expression, connection, and resistance. Tanvi Kanchan examines Indian queer activists’ connections with Indigenous and Black politics in the U.S. and anti-gender rhetoric that travels between American conservative contexts and Indian Hindutva contexts to highlight how digitally med…
Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works)