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Feminist Subversion and Complicity: Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia

Feminist Subversion and Complicity: Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia

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Feminist Subversion and Complicity: Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia
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<strong>CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES, JNU</strong> a Panel Discussion on <strong>Feminist Subversion and Complicity: Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia (Edited by Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay, Published by Zubaan, 2016)</strong> This book focuses on the myriad consequences of international development's incorporation of 'gender'. It does so by bringing together a unique group of feminist activist-scholars who have lived and breathed struggles to influence development practice, who draw on their rich and varied experiences to reflect and write. This makes for a book that has a powerful view from inside these struggles, historical depth as well as a compelling and nuanced analysis of the challenges, compromises and conflicts that are necessarily part of these processes of change. This book unpacks the creation of specific forms of 'gender expertise' and the role that gender knowledge has played in securing quiescence alongside policy change. It explores the ways in which the co-optation of feminist rebelliousness in the service of development has numbed feminist critique of the state, with the very bridges that the growth of governance feminism served to build carrying activists away from protest and resistance. <strong>Date: 23 August 2016</strong>

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.