Talk:Rada Ivekovic

By Renuka Joshi

Rada Iveković is a Croatian professor at the Department of Sociology Université de St. Etienne and program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris as of January 2023. According to her profile, her areas of research interests include Areas of Comparative Philosophy (Indian and Western); Feminist theory, Feminist Philosophy; Political Philosophy, dealing with the areas of Traditional and contemporary Asian Philosophies, and in particular Indian Philosophy; Contemporary Continental Philosophy; Postmodern philosophy (a critical approach); History of (Indian) Philosophy; Orientalism in (Western) Philosophy; the Feminine in Philosophy; Different aspects of the constitution of the nation, the State, Citizenship etc.; the problem of nationalism, violence, war; European identity; democracy.

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 the context of BJP government.

In 2021, she along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar 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 in 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 India

1. Iveković, Rada. Epistemological Fractures: The Decolonial in the Feminine. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 18, no. 4, 2016, pp. 546-565.
2. Iveković, Rada. The Separation of the World or Women: Gender and Philosophy in the Global Context. In Feminism and the Politics of Difference, edited by Sneja Gunew and Anna Yeatman, Westview Press, 1993, pp. 187-207.
3. Iveković, Rada. Des femmes, des philosophies et des frontières. Des femmes, 2016.
4. Iveković, Rada. Feminist Epistemology and Postcoloniality: Notes from the French Intellectual Scene. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 33, no. 4, 2008, pp. 791-800.