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Shruti Mukherjee
PhD Student, 2014-present
Contact: shruti.mukherjee@stonybrook.edu
Committee members -Joseph M Pierce (primary advisor), E.K Tan (chair of dissertation defense), Haley
Duschinski (external commitee member), Naisargi N. Dave (external reader).
Dissertation title:
Activist Lives Under Militarization: Disrupting Feminisms and Laying Bare the Ideas
of Liberal Democracy in India.
My dissertation is an ethnographic study of grassroots women’s activism in the state
of Manipur, in North East India, as a response to militarized nationalist patriarchy
operationalized by the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. My dissertation builds on
over a decade of research in Manipur, disrupts the narratives of Indian liberal democracy,
and theorizes ideas of social justice and how they are negotiated in everyday life,
in the context of forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and state sponsored
violence. It contributes to theoretical frameworks from disciplines such as anti-occupation
feminist studies, borderland studies, indigenous studies, development studies, cultural
anthropology, political geography, and transnational feminisms. This project engages
with and contributes to a diverse scholarship on the Global South such as anti-colonial
women’s movements, ethnography, transnational feminisms, and South Asia.
Publications:
Shruti Mukherjee
Social Epistemology A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy
Nosheen Ali, Mona Bhan, Sahana Ghosh, Hafsa Kanjwal, Zunaira Komal, Deepti Misri,
Shruti Mukherjee, Nishant Upadhyay, Saiba Varma and Ather Zia
Vol. 45, No. 2-3, Indigenous Feminisms in Settler Contexts (2019), pp. 574-580
Education:
M.Phil, International Politics,Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 2011-13
M.A, Women Centered Social Work,Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India, 2009-2011
B.A, Political Science (Honors),Lady Shri Ram College, India, 2006-2009