Reshma Bharadwaj

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I am trying to combine ethnographic and historical research to understand how the distinctive political culture of Keralam has created opportunities and challenges for the mobilization of women belonging to sexual minority groups - categorised as `prostitutes', `lesbians', and `transgender'. The research explores the socio-economic conditions for such otherwise stigmatized persons to gain visibility in public discourse and agency in the field of political movements.

Contestations regarding the recognition of the sexual minority movements as legitimate political actors are framed both in terms of conflicting visions of respectability and women's place in society. I focus upon how the precise ways in which social markers like caste, class, and work status create different understandings of gender and sexuality. This is an attempt to explore issues of intimacy, identity and violence, as well as the tangled relationship between new notions of citizenship, the state and neo-liberalistic development trajectories in Keralam.

Post Graduate Diploma in Science and Developmental Communication, Centre for Science and Development Communication (C-Dit), India, 1997

MSW (Masters in Social Work), Mahatma Gandhi University, India 1995

BA in English Language and Literature, Calicut University, India 1993

Publikasjoner i Cristin

Ongoing Phd Project (2009 - ):
Ways of Being: On Ontological Insurrections by Little selves in Keralam, India (A Study Focusing on Sex workers’ Movement and Sexual Minority Women’s Movements).

MSW (completed 1995):
Socio – economic problems faced by ‘Unwed mothers’ among tribals of Waynad District, Kerala, India.

Completed in 2008:
Gendering Governance or Governing of Woman?-Politics, Patriarchy and Democratic Decentralization in Kerala, India (was part of the research team in this project conducted by Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram).

Reshma Bharadwaj

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