Talk:Sujata Patel

By Renuka Joshi

Sujata Patel holds the 2021 Kersten Hesselgren Visiting Professorship in the Department of Sociology at Umeå University as of May 23, 2023. Her work on modernity and social theory, history of sociology/social sciences, urbanization and city-formation, social movements, gender construction, and caste and class formation in India combines an historical sensibility with four perspectives-Marxism, feminism, spatial studies and post structuralism.

As per her bio, she has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India, or the Indian Government as of October 2022

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

• Patel, Sujata. "Introduction: New Directions in Indian Sociology." Global Dialogue, International Sociological Association, vol. 12, no. 1, 2022, pp. 40-41.
• Patel, Sujata. Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Aspirations in Contemporary India. Oxford University Press, 2022.
• Patel, Sujata. "Rethinking urban studies today: the Indian experience." In De-centering Global Sociology: The Peripheral Turn in Social Theory and Research, Routledge, 2022, pp. 127-143.
• Patel, Sujata. "Colonialism and its knowledges." In The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 893-916.
• Patel, Sujata, D. Parthasarathy, and George Jose. "Introduction: pathways towards majoritarian neoliberalism in Mumbai." In Mumbai / Bombay: Majoritarian Neoliberalism, Informality, Resistance, and Wellbeing, Routledge, 2022, pp. 1-23.
• Patel, Sujata. "Mumbai / Bombay: majoritarian neoliberalism, informality, resistance, and wellbeing." In Cities and the Urban Imperative, 2022.
• Patel, Sujata. "Sociology's encounter with the decolonial: The problematique of indigenous vs that of coloniality, extraversion and colonial modernity." Current Sociology, vol. 69, no. 3, 2021, pp. 372-388.
• Patel, Sujata. "Nationalist Ideas and the Colonial Episteme: The Antinomies Structuring Sociological Traditions of India." Journal of Historical Sociology, vol. 34, 2021, pp. 28-40.