Intimacy and injury : in the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa / edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke and Srila Roy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Falkof, Nicky, editor.

Phadke, Shilpa, editor.

Roy, Srila, editor.

Series:

Governing intimacies in the global South.

Governing intimacies in the Global South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--India--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--South Africa--Social conditions.

Women--Violence against--India.

Women--Violence against--South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2022

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

Intimacy and Injury maps the travels of the global #MeToo movement in India and South Africa. Both countries 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, they boast long histories of resisting such violence and its location in wider cultures of patriarchy, settler colonialism and class and caste privilege. Northern voices and experiences have dominated debates on #MeToo, which, while originating in the US, had considerable traction elsewhere, including in the global south. In India, #MeToo revitalised longstanding feminist struggles around sexual violence, offering new tactics and repertoires. In South Africa, it drew on new cultures of opposing sexual violence that developed online and in student protest. There were also marked differences in the ways in which #MeToo travelled in both countries, pointing to older histories of power, powerlessness and resistance. The book uses the #MeToo moment to track 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, which are rarely brought into conversation with one another. With contributors located in South Africa and India alone, this book builds transnational feminist knowledge and solidarity in and across the global south.

Contents:

Front Matter

Dedication

Contents

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: intimacy, injury and #MeToo in India and South Africa

Part I Pre-histories

South Africa's own 'Delhi moment': news coverage of the murders of Jyoti Singh and Anene Booysen

Hokkolorob, campus politics and the pre-histories of #MeToo

Reading in-between the sheets: in conversation about SWEAT's #SayHerName

Reflection: 'When will the state be #MeToo'd?'

Part II #MeToo's silences

Moments of erasure of the testimonies of sexual violence against Dalit women

#MeToo and the troubling of the rural public sphere in India: a feminist media house reports from the hinterland

Contesting the meaning/s of sexual violence in the South African postcolony: where are the male victims?

Rebuilding precarious solidarities: a feminist debate in internet time

Reflection: progressive men and predatory practices

Part III Institutional locations: the university and the state

#EndRapeCulture and #MeToo: of intersectionality, rage and injury

From harassment to transgression: understanding changes in the legal landscape of sexual harassment in India

Feminism and Fallism in institutions: in conversation with Jackie Dugard

Reflection: beyond the media storm - on sexual harassment in the news and the newsrooms

Part IV Affect and aesthetics

Fury, pain, resentment … and fierceness: configurations of con/destructive affective activism in women's organising

Queer feminism and India's #MeToo

Fugitive aesthetics: performing refusal in four acts

Reflection: 'Gay boys don't cry when we're raped' - queer shame and secrecy

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Falkof, Nicky Intimacy and Injury

ISBN:

9781526157638

1526157632

OCLC:

1313076146