'Precarious Publics: Sexuality and the politics of visibility' a talk by Dr. Navaneetha Mokkil at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 13th March 2014
Time : 3:00 pm onwards
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Seminar on ‘Precarious Publics: Sexuality and the politics of visibility’ by Dr. Navaneetha Mokkil, Central University of Gujarat, Gujarat.
Abstract : A demand for visibility, the linear movement from inside to outside, darkness to light, and silence to speech, has been central to claims for political recognition in India. The politics of visibility which is tied to the discourse of law and human rights defines the imagination of Indian feminism and sexuality rights movement in significant ways. Even the oft-quoted statement of “the personal is political” begs the question whether the reverse is also a pertinent claim. What happens if we acknowledge that the political is personal; i.e. the political is staged in an unstable network of cultural practices shot through by sexual and affective tensions? This paper examines a public event in Kerala and its mediated cultural reception, to explore the risks of a feminist and sexuality politics anchored on rights-bearing bodies in the rational public sphere. The episode the speaker looks at, demands detailed analysis because it provides a microcosm of the regional public as it is mediated through visual and print networks, and stages the anxious struggle between rational containment and ‘pornographic’ excess.
Speaker : Dr. Navaneetha Mokkil is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Central University of Gujarat. She completed her Ph.D. in English and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan in 2010. Her areas of research and teaching include gender and sexuality studies, visual and literary cultural practices in India, and theories of subjectivity. She is currently working on her book-manuscript titled, Sexual Figurations: Unruly Trajectories of the Political in South Asia. Her articles on queer theory and regional cinema have been published in Inter Asia Cultural Studies and South Asian Popular Culture.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Seminar on ‘Precarious Publics: Sexuality and the politics of visibility’ by Dr. Navaneetha Mokkil, Central University of Gujarat, Gujarat.
Abstract : A demand for visibility, the linear movement from inside to outside, darkness to light, and silence to speech, has been central to claims for political recognition in India. The politics of visibility which is tied to the discourse of law and human rights defines the imagination of Indian feminism and sexuality rights movement in significant ways. Even the oft-quoted statement of “the personal is political” begs the question whether the reverse is also a pertinent claim. What happens if we acknowledge that the political is personal; i.e. the political is staged in an unstable network of cultural practices shot through by sexual and affective tensions? This paper examines a public event in Kerala and its mediated cultural reception, to explore the risks of a feminist and sexuality politics anchored on rights-bearing bodies in the rational public sphere. The episode the speaker looks at, demands detailed analysis because it provides a microcosm of the regional public as it is mediated through visual and print networks, and stages the anxious struggle between rational containment and ‘pornographic’ excess.
Speaker : Dr. Navaneetha Mokkil is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Central University of Gujarat. She completed her Ph.D. in English and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan in 2010. Her areas of research and teaching include gender and sexuality studies, visual and literary cultural practices in India, and theories of subjectivity. She is currently working on her book-manuscript titled, Sexual Figurations: Unruly Trajectories of the Political in South Asia. Her articles on queer theory and regional cinema have been published in Inter Asia Cultural Studies and South Asian Popular Culture.
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'Precarious Publics: Sexuality and the politics of visibility' a talk by Dr. Navaneetha Mokkil at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 13th March 2014
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