Atreyee Sen

Atreyee Sen
University of Copenhagen · Department of Anthropology

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This article explores the quotidian politics of community vigilantism over women involved in interreligious love affairs in two radicalized Indian slums. Using a Hindu nationalist slum in Mumbai and a communally sensitive Muslim-dominated slum in Hyderabad as ethnographic landscapes, I show how women and children (and peripheral state actors) used...
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This entry offers an overview of conceptual complexities surrounding anthropological understandings of slums and shanty towns. It traces the historical role of slums in urban anthropology and highlights the definitional and methodological challenges that underlie ethnographic studies of urban poverty.
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This article explores the politics of surveillance, suppression, and resistance within a women's correctional facility in 1970s Calcutta, a city in eastern India. I highlight the excessively violent treatment of women political prisoners, who were captured and tortured for their active participation in a Maoist guerrilla (Naxal) movement. I argue t...
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This chapter will analyse the position, potentialities and politics of mass prison escapes in the context of violent, anti-state political movements in India. Indian security services identify contemporary anti-national insurgents as the most prominent danger to local government machineries. One such alleged menace is the banned Naxalite movement,...
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Everyday Violence and Female Vigilantism in the Bombay Slums This paper focuses on the activities of female vigilantes attached to the Hindu nationalist movement of the Shiv Sena. The Mahila Aghadi (Women’s Front) was founded and is still led by marginalized women from Bombay’s slums. It comes as a challenge to conventional assumptions about women’...
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Hyderabad, a city in southern India, has witnessed a saga of religious conflict between Hindus and Muslims, the first large-scale riot being recorded in 1939. As recently as March 2010, paramilitary forces were deployed to rein in extensive clashes over the appropriate placing of religious flags across the city. Along with this convoluted history o...
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This paper explores the emergence of violent child identity politics in a communally sensitive urban slum in Hyderabad, a city in southern India. My ethnographic landscape is Sultanpur, a Muslim-dominated ghetto in the northern quarters of Hyderabad, which has been marked by decades of hostilities between local Hindus and Muslims. These tensions ha...
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This co-authored article offers an analytical overview of contemporary women documentary film-makers and the latter's engagement with ‘the urban’ in South Asia. It shows how a proliferating range of women directors represent the city through their political positions and dialogic sensibilities; often using the lens of feminism, sexuality, power rel...
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This article focuses on oral traditions created by slum women affiliated with the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena movement in Bombay, and explores the ways in which these invented traditions allowed marginalized women to enter a martial, masculinist "Hindu" history. It shows how poor, rough women used the limited resources available in the slums, espec...
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This article explores the violence and voyeurism in viewing poverty in urban slums. By uncovering the social, economic, gendered, and racialized politics within a small-scale travel industry, I show how the latter cater to certain personal, sexual, and religious curiosities among a breed of travelers visiting developing countries. I did my ethnogra...
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This article analyses the power of peripheral urban spaces in the creation and dissemin-ation of a culture of female militancy. I show how poor women in the Bombay slums, by affiliating themselves with the aggressive Shiv Sena movement, came to violently control a range of physical, material and social spaces, in the process moving away from positi...

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