Talk:Debashree Mukherjee

By Rutvi Dattani

Debashree Mukherjee is associate professor in the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS), Columbia University. She is also affiliated with the Center for Comparative Media; Film & Media Program, School of the Arts; Institute for Research on Women, Gender, & Sexuality (IRWGS). Her research focuses on South Asian cinemas, with methodological investments in film and media studies, feminist decolonial historiography, environmental humanities, and technology studies.

As per her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva.

In 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to Indian Cinema

• Mukherjee D. (2022) “Archival Conjugations: Queer Traces of Love and Loss in Bombay Cinema,” In A Companion to Indian Cinema, 122-146.

• Mukherjee D. (2020) Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City, Columbia University Press.

• Mukherjee D, Porter L, Gledhill C, Bell M, Cobb S, Sieglohr U, Sawhney R. (2020) “Somewhere between Human, Nonhuman, and Woman: Shanta Apte’s Theory of Exhaustion,” Feminist Media Histories, 6(3): 21-51.

• Mukherjee D. (2020) “Researching Women’s Film History,” in The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication, Wiley. With Melanie Bell, Shelley Cobb, Christine Gledhill, Laraine Porter, Rashmi Sawhney, and Ulrike Sieglohr.

• Mukherjee D. (2019) “A Specter Haunts Bombay: Censored Itineraries of a Lost Communistic Film,” Film History, 31(4): 29-59.

• Mukherjee D. (2016) “Scandalous Evidence: Looking for the Bombay Film Actress in an Absent Archive (1930s-1940s),’ in C Gledhill & J Knight (eds.) Doing Women’s Film History: Reframing Cinema’s Past and Future, University of Illinois Press.

• Mukherjee D. (2014) Filmi Jagat, A Scrapbook: Shared Universe of Early Hindi Cinema. With K Bhaumik and R Allana. Art Heritage & Niyogi Books.

• Mukherjee D. (2010) “A Material World: Notes on an Interview with Ram Tipnis,’ BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 1(2): 199-205.

• Mukherjee D. (2009) 'Good Girls, Bad Girls,’ Circuits of Cinema, Seminar special issue, 598: 21-27.

References

• Debashree Mukherjee page on Columbia University accessed October 3, 2022