Both India and South Africa have shared the infamy of being labelled the world's 'rape capitals', with high levels of everyday gender-based and sexual violence. At the same time, both boast long histories of resisting such violence and its location in wider cultures of patriarchy, settler colonialism and class and caste privilege.
Through the lens of the #MeToo moment, the book tracks histories of feminist organising in both countries, while also revealing how newer strategies extended or limited these struggles. Intimacy and injury is a timely mapping of a shifting political field around gender-based violence in the global south. In proposing comparative, interdisciplinary, ethnographically rich and analytically astute reflections on #MeToo, it provides new and potentially transformative directions to scholarly debates this book builds transnational feminist knowledge and solidarity in and across the global south.
Edited by:
Nicky Falkof,
Srila Roy,
Shilpa Phadke
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9781526178725
ISBN 10: 1526178729
Series: Governing Intimacies in the Global South
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 01 April 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction:Intimacy, injury and #MeToo in India and South Africa - Srila Roy, Nicky Falkof and Shilpa Phadke Part I: Pre-histories 1 South Africa’s own ‘Delhi moment’: news coverage of the murders of Jyoti Singh and Anene Booysen - Nechama Brodie 2 Hokkolorob, campus politics and the pre-histories of #MeToo - Paromita Chakravarti and Jhelum Roy 3 Reading in-between the sheets: in conversation about SWEAT’s #SayHerName - Ntokozo Yingwana and Nosipho Vidima Reflection: ‘When will the State be #MeToo’d?’ - Jyotsna Siddharth Part II MeToo’s silences 4 Moments of Erasure of the testimonies of sexual violence against Dalit women - Rupali Bansode 5 #Metoo and the troubling of the rural public sphere in India: a feminist media house reports from the hinterland - Disha Mullick 6 Contesting the meaning/s of sexual violence in the South African postcolony: where are the male victims? - Louise du Toit 7 Rebuilding precarious solidarities: a feminist debate in internet time - Shilpa Phadke Reflection: Progressive men and Predatory Practices - Jessica Breakey Part III Institutional locations: The university and the State 8 #EndRapeCulture and #MeToo: of intersectionality, rage and injury - Amanda Gouws 9 From harassment to transgression: understanding changes in the legal landscape of sexual harassment in India - Rukmini Sen 10 Feminism and fallism in institutions: in conversation with Jackie Dugard - Zuziwe Khuzwayo and Ragi Bashonga Reflection: Beyond the media storm: on sexual harassment in the news and the newsrooms - Nithila Kanagasabai Part IV: Affect and aesthetics 11 Fury, pain, resentment … and fierceness: configurations of con/destructive affective activism in women’s organising - Peace Kiguwa 12 Queer feminism and India’s #MeToo - Jaya Sharma 13 Fugitive aesthetics: performing refusal in four acts - Swati Arora Reflection: ‘Gay boys don’t cry when we’re raped’: queer shame and secrecy - Jamil F. Khan -- .
Nicky Falkof is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. Shilpa Phadke is Professor at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Srila Roy is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Reviews for Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #Metoo in India and South Africa
'The contributors have relied on intersectionality, transnationalism, inclusivity, and reflexivity in their exploration of the landscape of violence and violation in India and South Africa.' Ipshita Mitra, Feminism in India 'This brilliant collection brings together incisive and critical accounts of feminist organising, written by, for and from scholars of colour from India and South Africa. By refuting the claim that #MeToo has travelled to the Global South, the book suggests the need for a radical re-imagining of the raced, classed gender politics of sexual violence at scalar level and offers a different perspective “from the margins”.' Sweta Rajan-Rankin, The Sociological Review 'Intimacy and injury is a timely mapping of a shifting political field around gender-based violence in the global south.' Gary Edwards, Institute of Development Studies 'Must Reads of 2022' 'The call for collaborative work across disciplines, modalities and other spaces of knowledge unrecognised by the academy is clearly a priority for decolonial, feminist and queer scholarship. The book models this admirably, it is threaded through with art, images and poetry, both in the chapters and in the reflective pieces that so poignantly draw the sections together. This is indeed a strength of this book which also presents us with a rich account of #MeToo and other feminist activisms within these two global Southern contexts, offering an important contribution to the larger scholarship around #MeToo and extending the lens of the recent international handbook (Chandra and Erlingsdóttir, 2021) which, while providing a valuable and wide scan of geopolitical contexts, included a minority of global Southern voices.' Tamara Shefer, Feminist Encounters (6(2), 34) -- .
