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Rupture, Loss and Living: Minority Women Speak about Post-conflict Life

by K. Lalita and Deepa Dhanraj
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788125064152
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
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  • Pages: 448
  • Original Price: INR 2215.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 550 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Rupture, Loss and Living: Minority Women Speak about Post-conflict Life is an oral history volume that brings together narratives of women survivors of collective violence from three places in India— Hyderabad, Mumbai and Gujarat. These voices represent different classes, rural and urban locations and span three decades of violent events.

Thematically presented— ‘I Began to See the World for What it is’, ‘Loss and Trauma’, ‘Negotiating Survival and Livelihood’, ‘Claiming Accountability, Seeking Justice’ – this book explores the gendered complexities of negotiating the immediate and long term aftermath of collective violence.

In the Introduction, the editors provide an analytical framework built from ideas articulated in the narratives. Such a framework helps to interrogate and contextualise questions of agency, identity and justice. Concepts such as rupture, loss, dignity and accountability are laid bare in order to understand the processes and politics of recovery and survival. 

This book goes beyond a restrictive understanding of collective violence and its impacts to challenge existing assumptions on Minority women’s engagement with public and private institutions in a post-conflict context. The narratives presented here foreground a critique of power and contemporary society, rooted in Minority women’s experiences of violence and survival.

This unique and deeply moving compilation will be of great interest to activists and policymakers working in areas of post-violence recovery and minorities and citizenship, as well as to scholars of women’s studies, feminism, political science, sociology, cultural politics and ethnography/oral history.

Deepa Dhanraj is a Bangalore-based documentary filmmaker, feminist researcher and writer.

K. Lalita is a feminist scholar and activist, currently associated with Yugantar, and Anveshi – Research Centre for Women's Studies in Hyderabad. 

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