This book explores how citizenship is differently gendered and performed across national and regional boundaries. Using citizenship as its organizing concept, it is a collection of multidisciplinary approaches to legal, socio-cultural and performative aspects of gender construction and identity: violence against women, victimhood and agency, and everyday issues of socialization in a globalized world. It brings together scholars of politics, media, and performance who are committed to dialogue across both nation and discipline.
This study is the culmination of a two-year project on the topic of 'Gendered Citizenship', arising from an international collaboration that has sought to develop a comparative and yet singular perspective on performance in relation to key political themes facing our countries of origin in the early decades of this century. The research is interdisciplinary and multinational, drawing on Indian, European, and North and South America
n contexts.
List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.-
1. Introduction; Janelle Reinelt, Bishnupriya Dutt and Shrinkhla Sahai.-
Introduction to Part 1.- 2. The Dilemmas of Performative Citizenship; Shirin
Rai.- 3. Making Citizenship Familiar: Truth Tales and the Partition
Archive(s); Anupama Roy.- 4. When State Policy Refracts the Mother; Amrita
Nandy and Sneha Banerjee.- 5. Spaces of Appearance, Politics of Exposure:
Queer Publics, Sexual Justice and Activism in Eastern Europe and India; Ameet
Parameswaran and Milija Gluhovic,- 6. Mapping the Nation: Performance Art in
India and Narratives of Nationalism and Citizenship; Shrinkhla Sahai.-
7.
Traversing Sites, Traversing History: Practicing Citizenship through Art;
Anuradha Kapur.- Introduction to Part 2.- 8. Unmasking the Face of Gendered
Citizenship: Anupama Chandrasekhars Acid and Free Outgoing; Elaine Aston.-
9. The Legal Unspeakable: Rape in 1980s Bombay Cinema; Ranjani Mazumdar.-
10. Murderous Maids: Reading Contemporary Migrant Domestic Labour Through
Genets Maids; Silvija Jestrovic.- 11. India's Daughter in India - Old
questions, New Answers?; Nivedita Menon.- 12. The Glasgow Girls: Many Faces
of Child Asylum Seekers; Susan Haedicke.- Introduction to Part 3.- 13. Is a
Trafficked Woman a Citizen? Survival and Citizenship in Performance; Janelle
Reinelt.- 14. Processing Vulnerability, Trauma, and Recovery for Women
Victims: Rehabilitation Through Tools from Performance; Urmimala Sarkar
Munsi.- 15. Becoming Citizens: Loss and Desire in the social reintegration of
guerrilla ex-combatants in Colombia; Marķa Estrada-Fuentes.- 16. Laws and
Marginalised Bodies: Child Labour Laws and Circus as a Site of Negotiations;
Aastha Gandhi and Bishnupriya Dutt.- 17. Sexuate Agency and Relationality in
Witnessing Kashmir Violence; Inshah Malik and Manola K. Gayatri.-
18.
Epilogue: The Artist as Citizen: Resisting official history.- Index.
Bishnupriya Dutt is Professor and Dean in the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, and serves on the executive committee of IFTR.
Janelle Reinelt is Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick, UK, and former President of IFTR.
Shrinkhla Sahai is completing her PhD at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, and is an independent media critic, radio professional and dancer in Delhi.
