Atriya Dey
Biographic Data
| ID | 906405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Atriya Dey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Atriya |
| FAMILY NAME | Dey |
| SIGNATURE | DEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3351-5727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Vernacular bureaucracies and the discursive constitution of a Bengali region
The linguistic status of Sylheti—variously framed as a Bengali dialect, a distinct language, or a stigmatised vernacular—remains unsettled. This ambiguity creates a politically charged interpretive space in India’s eastern borderlands. Focusing on Assam’s Barak Valley, where Sylheti-speaking Bengalis form a demographic majority yet remain marginal within dominant state narratives, the paper examines how influential cultural and civic actors seek …
Documentary infrastructures and the vernacular state
Informality and the paradox of legal subjecthood
From an ‘organic city’ to a ‘commercial hub
In India, economic liberalization, which began in the early 1990s, marked a pivotal shift from the Nehruvian model of a planned economy to a market‐oriented economy, which transformed the Indian middle‐class in both size and socioeconomic aspirations; and by extension, the texture of the urban form. In this paper, we focus on Rajarhat – a rapidly developing township located in the eastern fringe of the metropolitan city of Kolkata – as a case stu…
Digital feminist activism against rape culture in universities
In October 2017, Raya Sarkar, a 24-year-old Indian law student, joined the global #MeToo movement by creating a crowdsourced list on Facebook naming male Indian academics accused of sexual harassment. Similarly, a year and a half earlier, an anonymous list of men accused of sexual and gender-based violence surfaced on social media in South Africa, quickly going viral on a Rhodes University Facebook page and sparking student mobilization under the…
The right to the campus- sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) in India universities
Reclaiming Rajarhat
The rapid development of Rajarhat, West Bengal into a ‘global city’ has attracted both skilled and unskilled migrants. Amidst economic precarity and social polarisation, ethnicity-based identity politics are easily weaponised by a section of the Bengali population, in order to deflect public attention away from the political economy and towards those perceived as ‘outsiders’ – an empty signifier that refers to ethnic, religious and linguistic min…
Sexual harassment in academia
The Toto as an "ecological alternative" in Rajarhat
Don't take too many pictures
This article draws on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in Rajarhat, a planned township on Kolkata's urban fringe, to develop what we term an "epistemology of discomfort". Rajarhat, often portrayed as a frontier of neoliberal urbanism, is shaped equally by speculative real estate, displacement, and precarious inhabitation. As researchers situated within caste, class, and institutional privilege, we encountered discomfort-not despite our pos…
It’s a joke, not a dick. So don’t take it too hard”
Recently, while there has been some attention to the issues online harassment in higher education, the impacts of online sexual harassment have been lost within the broader focus.There is negligible research looking at these specific experiences within Indian universities.To address this gap, this paper explores three different but interconnected forms of online sexual harassment-image-based sexual abuse, online chat rooms, and trolling in the co…
We are Louder when we are Heard Together’
It started with this one post
In October 2017, Raya Sarkar, a 24-year-old law student from India, posted a crowdsourced list on Facebook of male Indian academics who allegedly harassed women. This led to the start of the #MeToo movement in India, where universities became key spaces of discussion, debate and activism. Due to failures of both the criminal justice system and the described capitalist, patriarchal, casteist structures of Indian academia, hundreds of survivors who…
Feminist activism 25 years after Beijing
Young women have taken the lead in a new wave of feminist and democratic protests that have erupted across a wide range of countries, North and South. These movements raise a range of political and analytic questions: To what extent is it useful to identify the recent wave of activism in terms of a new generation of activists? How different is the ‘new’ feminism to earlier forms, and what differences and continuities divide and unite the generati…
Me Too’ and the ‘List’ – Power Dynamics, Shame, and Accountability in Indian Academia
In October 2017, Raya Sarkar, a law student of Indian descent, posted a crowdsourced list on Facebook of male academics who allegedly harassed women. India’s academic world splintered and the #MeToo movement became a student movement emerging from campuses resisting a culture of widespread sexism, abuse, and violence which is rife in Indian academia. Some academics criticised the List for leaving out the names of accusers and specific details of …
Sites of Exception
Gender violence in India exists as a state of exception for the ways in which it occupies a nonlegal, liminal space of existence as "bare life" or "life itself." The rape and murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey unprecedentedly brought this to the surface. This article aims to highlight the ways in which the movement that emerged out of this case engaged with gender violence as a state of exception while the use of new digital technologies by "digital su…
Others' Within the 'Others
It started with this one post
In October 2017, Raya Sarkar, a 24-year-old law student from India, posted a crowdsourced list on Facebook of male Indian academics who allegedly harassed women. This led to the start of the #MeToo movement in India, where universities became key spaces of discussion, debate and activism. Due to failures of both the criminal justice system and the described capitalist, patriarchal, casteist structures of Indian academia, hundreds of survivors who…
Sites of Exception
Gender violence in India exists as a state of exception for the ways in which it occupies a nonlegal, liminal space of existence as "bare life" or "life itself." The rape and murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey unprecedentedly brought this to the surface. This article aims to highlight the ways in which the movement that emerged out of this case engaged with gender violence as a state of exception while the use of new digital technologies by "digital su…
Feminist activism 25 years after Beijing
Young women have taken the lead in a new wave of feminist and democratic protests that have erupted across a wide range of countries, North and South. These movements raise a range of political and analytic questions: To what extent is it useful to identify the recent wave of activism in terms of a new generation of activists? How different is the ‘new’ feminism to earlier forms, and what differences and continuities divide and unite the generati…
Me Too’ and the ‘List’ – Power Dynamics, Shame, and Accountability in Indian Academia
In October 2017, Raya Sarkar, a law student of Indian descent, posted a crowdsourced list on Facebook of male academics who allegedly harassed women. India’s academic world splintered and the #MeToo movement became a student movement emerging from campuses resisting a culture of widespread sexism, abuse, and violence which is rife in Indian academia. Some academics criticised the List for leaving out the names of accusers and specific details of …
The Toto as an "ecological alternative" in Rajarhat
It’s a joke, not a dick. So don’t take it too hard”
Recently, while there has been some attention to the issues online harassment in higher education, the impacts of online sexual harassment have been lost within the broader focus.There is negligible research looking at these specific experiences within Indian universities.To address this gap, this paper explores three different but interconnected forms of online sexual harassment-image-based sexual abuse, online chat rooms, and trolling in the co…
Sites of Exception
Gender violence in India exists as a state of exception for the ways in which it occupies a nonlegal, liminal space of existence as "bare life" or "life itself." The rape and murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey unprecedentedly brought this to the surface. This article aims to highlight the ways in which the movement that emerged out of this case engaged with gender violence as a state of exception while the use of new digital technologies by "digital su…
Others' Within the 'Others
Feminist activism 25 years after Beijing
Young women have taken the lead in a new wave of feminist and democratic protests that have erupted across a wide range of countries, North and South. These movements raise a range of political and analytic questions: To what extent is it useful to identify the recent wave of activism in terms of a new generation of activists? How different is the ‘new’ feminism to earlier forms, and what differences and continuities divide and unite the generati…
Me Too’ and the ‘List’ – Power Dynamics, Shame, and Accountability in Indian Academia
In October 2017, Raya Sarkar, a law student of Indian descent, posted a crowdsourced list on Facebook of male academics who allegedly harassed women. India’s academic world splintered and the #MeToo movement became a student movement emerging from campuses resisting a culture of widespread sexism, abuse, and violence which is rife in Indian academia. Some academics criticised the List for leaving out the names of accusers and specific details of …
We are Louder when we are Heard Together’
It started with this one post
In October 2017, Raya Sarkar, a 24-year-old law student from India, posted a crowdsourced list on Facebook of male Indian academics who allegedly harassed women. This led to the start of the #MeToo movement in India, where universities became key spaces of discussion, debate and activism. Due to failures of both the criminal justice system and the described capitalist, patriarchal, casteist structures of Indian academia, hundreds of survivors who…
It’s a joke, not a dick. So don’t take it too hard”
Recently, while there has been some attention to the issues online harassment in higher education, the impacts of online sexual harassment have been lost within the broader focus.There is negligible research looking at these specific experiences within Indian universities.To address this gap, this paper explores three different but interconnected forms of online sexual harassment-image-based sexual abuse, online chat rooms, and trolling in the co…
Reclaiming Rajarhat
The rapid development of Rajarhat, West Bengal into a ‘global city’ has attracted both skilled and unskilled migrants. Amidst economic precarity and social polarisation, ethnicity-based identity politics are easily weaponised by a section of the Bengali population, in order to deflect public attention away from the political economy and towards those perceived as ‘outsiders’ – an empty signifier that refers to ethnic, religious and linguistic min…
Sexual harassment in academia
The Toto as an "ecological alternative" in Rajarhat
Don't take too many pictures
This article draws on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in Rajarhat, a planned township on Kolkata's urban fringe, to develop what we term an "epistemology of discomfort". Rajarhat, often portrayed as a frontier of neoliberal urbanism, is shaped equally by speculative real estate, displacement, and precarious inhabitation. As researchers situated within caste, class, and institutional privilege, we encountered discomfort-not despite our pos…
Vernacular bureaucracies and the discursive constitution of a Bengali region
The linguistic status of Sylheti—variously framed as a Bengali dialect, a distinct language, or a stigmatised vernacular—remains unsettled. This ambiguity creates a politically charged interpretive space in India’s eastern borderlands. Focusing on Assam’s Barak Valley, where Sylheti-speaking Bengalis form a demographic majority yet remain marginal within dominant state narratives, the paper examines how influential cultural and civic actors seek …
Documentary infrastructures and the vernacular state
Informality and the paradox of legal subjecthood
From an ‘organic city’ to a ‘commercial hub
In India, economic liberalization, which began in the early 1990s, marked a pivotal shift from the Nehruvian model of a planned economy to a market‐oriented economy, which transformed the Indian middle‐class in both size and socioeconomic aspirations; and by extension, the texture of the urban form. In this paper, we focus on Rajarhat – a rapidly developing township located in the eastern fringe of the metropolitan city of Kolkata – as a case stu…
Digital feminist activism against rape culture in universities
In October 2017, Raya Sarkar, a 24-year-old Indian law student, joined the global #MeToo movement by creating a crowdsourced list on Facebook naming male Indian academics accused of sexual harassment. Similarly, a year and a half earlier, an anonymous list of men accused of sexual and gender-based violence surfaced on social media in South Africa, quickly going viral on a Rhodes University Facebook page and sparking student mobilization under the…
The right to the campus- sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) in India universities
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (4 works) · Economic Justice (3 works)