Miriam Ticktin
Miriam Ticktin is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center[1] as of September 2022. According to her university profile, her research interests include anthropology of the human, humanitarianism, post-human; migration, mobility, borders and walls; sexual violence/gender based violence; anthropology of science, medicine, ethics, and transnational feminist theory; France/Europe/North Africa
According to her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact of or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India or the Indian Government.[2] [3]
In 2021, she along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar and made the following 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."[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ Miriam Ticktin page on CUNY, Graduate Center accessed September 8, 2022
- ↑ In the article, "Sexual Violence as the Language of Border Control: Where French Feminist and Anti‐immigrant Rhetoric Meet.", she makes a negligible and throwaway reference to 'sati' while refers to how transnational discourses shape sexuality in France, she writes: "a transnational discourse on violence against women, which, in existence and use only since the early 1990s, has shifted and blurred the boundaries between public and private, consolidating concerns that heretofore had not been linked, such as rape, domestic violence, female excision, sexual slavery, sati, and the rape and torture of political prisoners."
- ↑ In the article, "The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence." she doesn't mention India in her essay. She only attaches an endnote about rape of a tribal woman by an Indian army officer in her discussion of rape and political struggle. [1]
- ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022