Talk:Madhumita Dutta

By Renuka Joshi

Madhumita Dutta is an Assistant Professor, Faculty Affiliate, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University, as of 6th June 2023. Her areas of Expertise are Labor Geography, Gender, Politics of Development, South Asia, creative methodologies.

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 governent.

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 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

Books

1. Dutta, M. Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak. New Delhi: Zubaan Press, India/Chicago University Press, 9789390514458 (paperback).
2. Nowak, J., M. Dutta, P. Birke (eds.). Workers' Movements and Strikes in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-78660-404-0 (paperback).

Journal articles

1. Dutta, M. Becoming active labour protestors: Women workers organizing in India's garment export factories. Globalizations 18(8): 1420-1435, 2021.
2. Dutta, M. Workplace, emotional bonds and agency: Everyday gendered experiences of work in an export processing zone in Tamil Nadu, India. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 52(7): 1357-1374, 2020.
3. Dutta, M. Turning productive failures into creative possibilities: Women workers shaping fieldwork methods in Tamil Nadu, India. Geographical Review 110(1-2): 145-159, 2020.
4. Dutta, M. ‘Becoming’ factory workers: understanding women's geographies of work through life stories in Tamil Nadu, India. Gender, Place and Culture 26 (6): 888-904, 2019.