Following last week’s protests at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi, solidarity for beleaguered students facing an unprecedented crackdown from the Indian government has come from all parts of India and around the world. Here, a group of women scholars and activists of Kashmir assert the need to re-center the Kashmiri right to self-determination in …
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Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture
"Weber's study undertakes a much-needed comprehensive investigation of the contemporary 'regime of gender violence,' that is, the key role violence has played in defining the position of Muslims in the German public sphere (in the larger European context). Through nuanced theorizing as well as careful historical contextualization, Weber develops an intersectional framework for analyzing gendered violence in a way that does not reinforce racialized discourses of cultural and/or religious difference." [more...]
Palgrave Macmillan, January 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-00708-7, ISBN10: 1-137-00708-7
252 pages.