Intimacy and Injury

In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa

Edited by : Shilpa Phadke, Srila Roy, NICKY FALKOF

9789390514496

Zubaan 2023

Language: English

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About the Book

This book, a timely mapping of a shifting political field around gender-based violence in the global south, brings together academics and activists from South Africa and India who explore not only the disturbing prevalence of high levels of sexual violence but also the long histories of resistance to it. Using the lens of the #MeToo movement, the authors track the histories of feminist organising in both countries, while also revealing how newer strategies both extended and limited these struggles. In proposing comparative, interdisciplinary, ethnographically rich and analytically astute reflections on #MeToo, this book points to new and potentially transformative directions to scholarly debates and transnational feminist knowledge and solidarity in and across the global south.

NICKY FALKOF

NICKY FALKOF is an associate professor in the Media Studies department at the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg. Her books include The End of Whiteness: Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa (2016), Anxious Joburg: The Inner lives of a Global South City (2020) and Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa (2022). Her research is concerned with race, anxiety and the media in the urban global south.

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