Talk:Anne Waldrop

By Anirudha patel

Anne Waldrop is Faculty of Education and International Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University as of August 2023. According to her research interests include Gender Relations, State, Power, Caste, Class, Urban Anthropology, and Political activism.

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, India or the Indian Government 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 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 India

1. Waldrop, Anne, and Sissel Egden. “Getting Behind the Walls and Fences: Methodological Considerations of Gaining Access to Middle-class Women in Urban India.” Forum for Development Studies, vol. 45, 2018.
2. Barua, Padmaja, Anne Waldrop, and Haldis Haukanes. “From Benevolent Maternalism to the Market Logic: Exploring Discursive Boundary Making in Domestic Work Relations in India.” Critical Asian Studies, vol. 49, 2017.
3. Barua, Padmaja, Haldis Haukanes, and Anne Waldrop. “Maid in India: Negotiating and Contesting the Boundaries of Domestic Work.” Forum for Development Studies, vol. 43, 2016.
4. Waldrop, Anne. “Grandmother, Mother and Daughter: Changing Agency of Indian Middle-class Women 1908-2008.” Modern Asian Studies, 2011, hdl.handle.net/10642/1425.
5. Waldrop, Anne. “The Meaning of the Old School-Tie: Private Schools, Admission Procedures, and Class Segmentation.” Education and Society: Themes, Perspectives, Practices, edited by Meenakshi Thapan, Chapter 15, pp. 405-427, Oxford University Press, 2015.
6. Waldrop, Anne, and Stein Sundstøl Eriksen. “Gender and Democratization: The Politics of Two Female Grassroots Activists in New Delhi.” In Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India, edited by Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Anne Waldrop, Chapter 7, pp. 105-121, Anthem Press, 2014.
7. Nielsen, Kenneth Bo, and Anne Waldrop. “Women and Gender in a Changing India.” In Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India, edited by Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Anne Waldrop, Chapter 1, pp. 1-18, Anthem Press, 2014.
8. Waldrop, Anne. “Kitty-parties and Middle-class Femininity in New Delhi.” In Being Middle-class in India: A Way of Life, edited by Henrike Donner, Chapter 7, Routledge, 2011.