Gender, Space and Agency in India

Anindita Datta is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. With over 20 years of teaching experience, she has published consistently in international peer-reviewed journals with interdisciplinary perspectives; served as a member on the international editorial boards for Gender, Place and Culture and Social and Cultural Geography; and is also a member of the Steering Committee, International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Gender and Geography. Her research interests are in the areas of feminist geography, conceptual traditions in geography and the social geography of India. She is particularly interested in indigenous feminisms, everyday geographies, geographies of care, spaces of resistance, and in issues of gendered and epistemic violence.

1. Gender, Space and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes 2. Pierre Bourdieu’s Symbolic Violence: Scripting Gender Among Assamese Middle-Class Women in Higher Education 3. The Power of Social Spaces In Enabling Girls’ Education In India: Perspectives From Indian Origin Students in The US 4. Interrogating Gender, Property Rights and Witch-Hunting in Jharkhand, India 5. Gender and Agency in Decentralized Political Spaces In Rural West Bengal 6. Mahila Panchayats of Delhi: Scripting Agency within Low Income Urban Neighbourhoods 7.“It Is Better to Die Than to Live Like This”: Widowhood, Economic Denial And Violence In Rural Punjab 8.‘This Is Our Area and That Is Theirs’: Scripting The Spatiality Of Migrant Masculinity In Goa, India 9. Watercentric Roles And Women’s Spaces: Narratives From Drought-Prone Villages Of Gujarat 10. Numbers, Bodies, Love, and Babies: Gender and territory in Ladakh 11. Reinterpreting Resistance and Agency: Excavating Feminist Counterspaces within Indigenous Feminisms