Sites of Exception: Gender Violence, Digital Activism and Nirbhaya’s Zone Of Anomie in India

Main author: Dey, Adrija
Format: Journal Article           
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recordtype eprints
institution SOAS, University of London
collection SOAS Research Online
language English
language_search English
topic H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences
description Gender violence in India exists as a state of exception for the ways in which it occupies a non-legal, liminal space of existence as ‘bare life’ or ‘life itself’. The rape and murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey unprecedentedly brought this to the surface. This article aims to highlight the ways in which the movement which emerged out of this case engaged with gender violence as a state of exception while the use new digital technologies by ‘digital subjects’/’digital parasites’ have constituted ‘sites of exception’ leading to new forms of organising and creating an emerging politics of gender justice in India.
format Journal Article
author Dey, Adrija
author_facet Dey, Adrija
authorStr Dey, Adrija
author_letter Dey, Adrija
title Sites of Exception: Gender Violence, Digital Activism and Nirbhaya’s Zone Of Anomie in India
publisher Sage
publishDate 2020
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31144/