Talk:Bishnupriya Ghosh

By Rutvi Dattani

Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and Global Studies in the Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, as of October 2022. Her research interests include c. 1945-present, Environment and Ecocriticism, Global Literatures and Media 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 India

• Ghosh B. (2004) Book - When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (Rutgers UP, 2004)

• Ghosh B. (1997) Interventions: Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women's Literature and Film 1997. Routledge

• Ghosh B. (2020) “Big Bad Social Media: Distributed Affects and Popular Politics.” Culture Machine, vol. 19, 2020. Journal article.

• Ghosh B. (2011) “Governing by Wrong.” World Picture, vol. 6, Winter 2011. Journal article.

• Ghosh B. (2020) Book Chapter “The Cost of Living: Reflections of Global Health Crises.” AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, edited by Jih-Feh Cheng et al., Duke University Press, 2020.

• Ghosh B. (2010) “Looking through Coca-Cola: Global Icons and the Popular" Public Culture vol. 22, no. 2, Summer 2010, pp. 333–68.

References

• Bishnupriya Ghosh page on University of California, Santa Barbara accessed October 7, 2022