The first in a series of publications emerging from the transoceanic platform kal, RITUALS proposes queer and trans-feminist ecologies, embodiments and mythmaking. The contributions trace and disrupt cross-colonial legacies through bodies of water lapping at the shorelines of the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic. kal RITUALS is an ode to transterritorial alliances that disrupt binary contours of time and being.
kal RITUALS assembles practices of queer world building in extended pandemic time, amidst deep ecological and social transformations, offering an expression of anti-colonial resistance and joy.
_____________________________________________________________________________________kal RITUALS is a collective work by The Many Headed Hydra. Connecting art, research and publishing, The Many Headed Hydra magazines engage bodies of water as ecological collectivities and tidal archives to set resistant knowledges into motion.
This publication emerges from a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same word. kal., an self-organized artistic platform spanning Karachi, Colombo, Berlin and beyond.
In Semiotics of Rape, Rupal Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body but a language through which a range of issues—including caste and gender hierarchies, control over land and labor, and the shape of justice—are contested. Rather than focus on the laws governing rape, Oza closely examines rape charges to show how the victims and survivors of rape reclaim their autonomy by refusing to see themselves as defined entirely by the act of violation. Oza also shows how rape cases become arenas where bureaucrats, village council members, caste communities, and the police debate women’s sexual subjectivities and how those varied understandings impact the status and reputations of individuals and groups. In this way, rape gains meaning beyond the level of the survivor and victim to create a social category. By tracing the shifting meanings of sexual violence and justice, Oza offers insights into the social significance of rape in India and beyond.
______________________________________________________________________________________RUPAL OZA is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York, and author of The Making of Neoliberal India: Nationalism, Gender, and the Paradoxes of Globalization.
"This rich volume deepens understanding on the theory and practice of feminist evaluation. It offers insights on whether programmes and policies can address gender inequities, especially when they are designed, implemented, and evaluated in systems that are deeply inequitable. The authors grapple with, and push against, the limitations of traditional evaluation frameworks. They explore institutional factors and barriers which shape and impede individual agency, choice, aspirations, and behaviours, and offer new approaches, insights, tools, and frameworks for other evaluation theorists and practitioners...Spanning feminist and Dalit theory, evaluation theory, gender programming, and covering a range of different sectoral programme cases while also moving between the conceptual and practical, this rich volume offers both new insights and practical tools for deepening feminist evaluation practice." — Katherine Hay, Deputy Director, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
‘Unruly Figures provides a provocative and theoretically rich account of the uneven terrain of contemporary sexual politics.’ — Gender & Society
‘Social commitment and intellectual vigour make this journey adventurous, and the author transmits its spirit through her evocative, lyrical writing.’ — Review of Development Change
‘In the long history of writing about queer theory both in South Asia and beyond, Mokkil’s study is unique in bringing Kerala and sexuality studies together in a powerfully pointed yet capacious way.’ — Geeta Patel, Author of Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance
‘Mokkil deftly reads, in an in-depth and sustained manner, a range of materials that constitute zones of publicity and intimacy in Kerala, drawing out how figurations of gender and sexuality mark this fraught terrain. Linking Indian and Anglo-American feminist and queer studies to these readings, the analysis makes a strong case for the importance of the regional as a site for new directions in critical scholarship.’ — Ritty Lukose, Author of Liberalizations’s Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India
“…powerfully describes how Dalit women free themselves from the degrading stereotypes of impurity, inferiority and inequality…” — Bama, author of Karukku and Sangati
“…personal and profound, Singh smashes disciplinary boundaries while illuminating the lived experiences of women who have long been marginalized by traditional feminist discourse…” — Smita Narula, author of Broken People: Caste Violence Against India’s ‘Untouchables’
“A powerful, poignant treatment of the Dalit plight and predicament with a courageous vision of resistance.” — Dr. Cornel West, scholar, writer, activist and philosopher
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